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Trance Experiences of Belonging in Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number 23KF0032
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section外国
Review Section Basic Section 80030:Gender studies-related
Research InstitutionOchanomizu University

Principal Investigator

戸谷 陽子  お茶の水女子大学, 基幹研究院, 教授 (30261093)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) HARTLINE FRANCIS  お茶の水女子大学, 基幹研究院, 外国人特別研究員
Project Period (FY) 2023-04-25 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Discontinued (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
KeywordsTransgender / LGBTQ+ / Queer / Identity / Resilience / gender diverse / empowerment
Outline of Research at the Start

I will investigate how trans people in Japan respond to the lack of formalized (institutional) recognition, with a specific focus on how they may find ways to cope or even thrive through individual and collective resilience.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

Trans people in Japan are facing limited societal and legal recognition of their gender identities and experiences. In this research project, I investigated how trans people in Japan respond to the lack of formalised recognition, with a specific focus on how they find ways to cope or even thrive through individual and collective resilience. In doing so, I applied the analytical framework of belonging;how one experiences and responds to in/exclusion and non/recognition;to personal narratives by trans people as well as to trans community efforts in Japan. Through this framework, I explored strategies of resilience, such as adaptive modes of sense-making, community development and self-transformation.
In this project, I sought to move away from the victim hood framework of Euro-American gender studies by examining how trans people in Japan make sense of their limited socio-legal recognition and claim spaces for empowerment, community-building and social/national belonging. I also studied how experiences and responses are informed by local and global discourses on gender diversity and trans rights, and how trans people adopt and adapt these discourses in strategic ways as individuals and through community work. The project applied a transfeminist decolonising framework in order to trace the limitations of the Euro-American rights framework for understanding the nuances of trans experiences in both non Western contexts and the Western context.

Report

(1 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (1 results)

All 2023

All Presentation (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 1 results)

  • [Presentation] ‘Exploring gender diverse joy’ Description: An overview of what gender diverse joy means to many in Japan and how it forms outside of sociolegal recognition.2023

    • Author(s)
      france rose harltine
    • Organizer
      Living on the Edge -Conference presentation: Living on the Edge (Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts Date: 30 September to 1 October 2023
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited

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Published: 2023-04-26   Modified: 2024-12-25  

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