1998 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Reconstruction of Third World Images and Renovation of the Regional Geography
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09480019
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Human geography
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| Research Institution | Ochanomizu University |
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Principal Investigator |
KUMAGAI Keichi Ochanomizu Univ.Dept.of Geography, Associate Professor, 文教育学部, 助教授 (80153344)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MATSUMOTO Hiroyuki Osaka Kyoiku University, Faculty of Education, 教育学部, 教授 (70116979)
NAKASATO Tsuguo Fukuoka Univ.of Education, Faculty of Education, 教育学部, 教授 (60044343)
NAKAYAMA Shuichi Hiroshima Univ., Graduate School for International Development Cooperation, 大学院・国際協力研究科, 教授 (30084122)
UMEHARA Hiromitsu Rikyo Univ., College of Arts, Pfofessor, 文学部, 教授 (00160325)
NISHIKAWA Daijio Hosei Univ., Faculty of Liberal Arts, Emeritus Professor, 第一教養部, 名誉教授 (80061018)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1997 – 1998
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| Keywords | The Third World / Area Studies / Regional Geography / Regional Understanding / Geographical Education / Field work |
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| Research Abstract |
This study group was organized aiming to reconstruct the images of the Third World and to renovate its regional geography. All the members of the group has been conducting their own field research for many years in the various parts of the Third World, In these two years we have enthusiastically discussed on the following issues ;
1) What is regional geography? And what sort of role has regional geography been playing in the national education in Japan as well as in the academic geography?
2) What has been the problems in the images of Third World and how they should be altered?
3) What is the proper methodology and epistemology for renovating regional geography of the Third World?
4) What sort of actual alternative regional geography could be provided to reconstruct the images of the Third World and to be made the best use in the geographical education?
We tackled with these issues and gave a lot of our original and insightful ideas to them published in the book of our final result..
We also organized the symposium under the same title as our research at the annual meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers held at Senshu Univ. on 26-27 March, 1999. The member of our study group presented our own papers and openly addressed these questions to the geographical circles in Japan. A number of scholars and school teachers also joined in the discussion, which made a great success.
We believe that the issues we properly raised and located should be continued to be discussed in our circles. We are also approaching further research on the relationship between fieldwork, area study and describing regional geography ; and the cooperation between physical and human geographers in renovating regional geography of the Third World.
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