2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Comparative Study on the Spontaneous Leaderships among the Slum Dwellers in Different Countries
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15252004
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Area studies
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan University |
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Principal Investigator |
EGUCHI Nobukiyo Ritsumeikan University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (90185108)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YAMAMOTO Yuji Osaka International University, Faculty of Law/Politics/Economics, Professor, 法政経学部, 教授 (50114806)
MURASE Satoru Otemae University, Faculty of SocioCulture, Professor, 社会文化学部, 教授 (50331707)
FUJIMAKI Masami Ritsumeikan University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (60131603)
LIM Bon Ritsumeikan University, Faculty of Sociology, Professor, 産業社会学部, 教授 (10202409)
KITAMORI Eri Tenri University, Faculty of International Culture, Associate Professor, 国際文化学部, 助教授 (40278875)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
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| Keywords | spontaneous Leaderships / slum / squatter / NGO / proto-charisma / プロト・カリスマ |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this comparative study is to analyze and examine what sort of persons tend to become the spontaneous leaders, who can unify and lead the poor slum dwellers for improving their communal infrastructures, for getting their rights on land, and for raising individual living standard. In addition, we attempt to consider the socio/cultural and economic environment which can bring some persons' abilities full play as leaders. In this study we have carried out a series of fieldworks among the slums dwellers in Nepal, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, the United States of America, Brazil, and the Caribbean nations. Through these fieldworks, we have collected first hand data on the slums dwellers, spontaneous leaders at the slums and the necessary environments, under which those leaders played quite important roles. We have interviewed not only the slum dwellers but the government officials, NGO members, university professors and other people, and could get their thoughts on the poverty eradication programs and some practices for the squatter-clearance. It is this report that we analyzed and examined the endowments and characteristics of the leaders, relationships between those leaders and their supporters, their environments in broad sense, their relationships with governments and NGOs. The chapters of this report begins from one dealing with young slums such as those in Nepal, the Caribbean through the old slums in Brazil to the former slum in New York.
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