2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Synthetic Research on the National "Memory" in the process of Nation-State Building
| Project/Area Number |
11410011
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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 |
History of thought
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies(TUFS) |
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Principal Investigator |
UEMURA Tadao Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Gruduate School, Professor, 大学院・地域文化研究科, 教授 (70107829)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
IMAI Akio Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Associate Professor, 外国語学部, 助教授 (20203284)
IWASAKI Minoru Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Associate Professor, 外国語学部, 助教授 (10201948)
NISHITANI Osamu Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Gruduate School, Professor, 大学院・地域文化研究科, 教授 (20189286)
KUDO Koichi Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Associate Professor, 外国語学部, 助教授 (80255950)
SOMA Yasuo Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 (90206673)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2001
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| Keywords | Memory / Historiography / Nation-State / War Memory / Colonialism / Oral History / Okinawa / Commemoratinn |
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| Research Abstract |
In this research project, we focused our attention on the fact that Nation-States have aimed at forming their national identities by means of the organization of "collective memory". It was our project purpose to come to close quarters with the roots of the "crisis of Nation-State", following up on the characteristics of the Modern Nation-State that we can find when we observe the collective memory organized by this type of body politic, and to look for some ways to the post-nationalism stage. In the first year of the project, we began by rearranging a series of problems related to our project theme into three topics : (1)History as an Art of Memory, (2)Nation-State and Collective Memory, (3)War Memory, and argued mainly about theoretical phases of the theme. From the second year on, in order to intensify concrete studies, we divided the project staff into three sections : Okinawa (Japan), Asia and Europe. The project members had fruitful discussions with Japanese researchers in frequent study meetings. We also invited some scholars from foreign countries ( the United States, the Netherlands, Czech, Vietnam, South Korea ) and organized international conferences and workshops that drew a good deal of attention of academic circles. Moreover, our project contained two showing films meetings and an exposition that attracted many common spectators. Our research results were published in the No.2 ( March 2000 ), No.3 ( March 2001 ) and No.4 ( March?2002 ) of Quadrante, bulletin of the Institute of Foreign Affairs ( TUFS ) to which most investigators of this research project belong.
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