An Anthropological Study of Communities of Minamata Disease Victims' Supporters

• Project/Area Number: 25370958
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: National Museum of Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: HIRAI KYONOSUKE 国立民族学博物館, 研究戦略センター, 教授 (80290922)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
• Keywords: 文化人類学 / 民族誌 / 社会運動 / ＮＰＯ / 市民社会 / 水俣病 / 公害 / コミュニティ / 社会学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research has conducted ten months anthropological fieldwork about an NGO in Minamata, Kumamoto. The research found out that this NGO produces new bodies of knowledge by engaging in activities to support Minamata disease victims, tries to change society by transmitting the knowledge, and, through the process, continuously transforms the relations with the state and society.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Social movements and the production of knowledge: body, practice, and society in East Asia (2015)
  • Author(s): Kyonosuke Hirai
  • Journal Title: Senri Ethnological Studies Volume: 91 Pages: 1-22
  • NAID: 120005642514
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Storytelling as political practice: habitus and social change in the Minamata disease movement (2015)
  • Author(s): Kyonosuke Hirai
  • Journal Title: Senri Ethnological Studies 91 Volume: 91 Pages: 81-99
  • NAID: 120005642518
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 「公害」をどう展示すべきか──水俣の対抗する二つのミュージアム (2015)
  • Author(s): 平井京之介
  • Journal Title: ミュージアムと負の記憶──戦争・公害・疾病・災害：人類の負の記憶をどう展示するか Volume: - Pages: 148-177
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] Storytelling and change in the habitus: an emergent form of Minamata Disease victims' movement in Japan (2014)
  • Author(s): 平井京之介
  • Organizer: 国立民族学博物館機関研究国際シンポジウム
  • Place of Presentation: 国立民族学博物館（大阪府吹田市）
• [Book] Social Movements and the Production of Knowledge: Body, Practice, and Society in East Asia (2015)
  • Author(s): Kyonosuke Hirai
  • Total Pages: 196
  • Publisher: National Museum of Ethnology