| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NAKANO Satoshi Hitotsubashi University,Faculty of Sociology, 大学院・社会学研究科, 助教授 (00227852)
OSHIBA Ryo Hitotsubashi University,Faculty of Law,Professor, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (50168910)
MURAKAMI Yusuke National Museum of Ethnology,Japan Center for Area Studies,Associate Professor, 地域研究企画交流センター, 助教授 (70290921)
TERACHI Koji Kyoritsu Women's University,Faculty of Intemational Culture,Associate Professor, 国際文化学部, 助教授 (60217429)
NISHIZAKI Fumiko Seikei University,Faculty of Law,Professor, 法学部, 教授 (60237691)
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| Research Abstract |
The international political situation surrounding the United States and Japan in the late 1990s was characterized by the reconstruction of political ideas in the post-Cold War setting and the accelerating globalization not only from the global centers outside, but even inside of the global centers' domestic societies. Given such political context, members of Japanese project team and those of Rutgers University shared the need to re-examine the nature of nationalism and citizenship, desirably in a comparative framework. Under this theme, we conducted six workshops both in the United States and Japan, analyzing and debating the cases of American and Japanese nationalism and citizenship, historically, politically, legally and culturally. The papers were published as Nationalism and Citizenship I, II, III, and IV(Osaka : JCAS, 2000 and 2001). The Japanese members also conducted field research for three years pursuing each of their topics. To incorporate all of these activities, an interna
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tional symposium "'We the People' in a Global Age" was held in November 2001, with fourteen papers and intensive discussion based on them. Internal globalization has raised the common challenge for both U.S. and Japanese societies, namely how to maintain the integrity of political community and how to re-vitalize citizenship when the political efficacy is very low even among non-minority population. Case studies on legal system, ethnic groups' activities, civil society organizations including NGO/NPOs are conducted to find the answer. The fundamental understanding that globalization and resurgence of nationalism can proceed simultaneously is re-assured not only through the case studies, but what were happening in real time in the United States and Japan : namely 9-11 terrorism and the movement surrounding textbook rewriting. It also became clear that nationalism is uplifted by using the very values and ideas upon which each of the societiesisbased. The record of three-year field research is made into an attached publication. Findings from the over-all project will be published as "We the People " in Global Age (Osaka ; JCAS), and a book-form publication in Japanese is also forthcoming. Less
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