2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Sociological Study of Ethnic Conflicts and People's Livelihood in Melanesia
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13610188
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
社会学(含社会福祉関係)
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| Research Institution | HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
MIYAUCHI Taisuke Hokkaido Univ., Grad. School of Letters, Asso. Prof., 大学院・文学研究科, 助教授 (50222328)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SHIRAKAWA Chihiro Niigata Univ. Faculty of Humanities, Asso. Prof., 人文学部, 助教授 (60319994)
SHIOTA Mitsuki Institute of Development Economies, Research Fellow, 地域研究第一部, 研究員
SEKINE Hisao Tsukua Univ. Research Institutes of Social Sciences, Lecturer, 社会科学系, 講師 (60283462)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2002
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| Keywords | ethnicity / ethnic tension / Melanesia / Solomon Islands / Vanuatu / livelihood strategy / development sociology / anthropology |
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| Research Abstract |
This research aims to study ethnic tensions in Melanesia from the perspective of developmet sociology and development anthropology. The study has revealed following points. 1. The ethnic tension in Solomon Islands has the background that Solomon Islands' modernization has marginalized Guadalcanal Islanders. 2. How displaced people in the Solomon Islands was affected depends on where and how they lived in Guadalcanal Island. Malaitan people, who purchased land in Guadalcanal to get both town accessibility and subsistence economy, were most affected. 3. In Solomon Islands, the ethnic tension has promoted people's "to our land" ideology. 4. The ethnic tension in Solomon has changed traditional 'compensation' to the mere way of claiming for money. 5. Some efforts to re-educate young people for peace have occurred after the tension in Solomon Islands. 6. Vanuatu, where no ethnic tension has occurred, has latent conflict for land in Port Vila. This latent conflict appears when people label themselves.
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