2016 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Pacificism. The Pacific as a Space of Resistance and Hybridity
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15K01894
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| Research Institution | Rikkyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
粂川 麻里生 慶應義塾大学, 文学部(三田), 教授 (00317504)
豊田 由貴夫 立教大学, 観光学部, 教授 (20197974)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | Pacific / insularity / transpacific history |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
2017 saw the publication of a volume on ‘Pacificism’, dealing with different aspects of the discursive formation of the Pacific. In 2016, the principal investigator Thomas Schwarz and the co-researcher Mario Kumekawa cooperated with a Germany-based partner Johannes Goerbert (FU Berlin) as co-editors of 26 case studies. Kumekawa and Schwarz, the co-researchers Yukio Toyoda and Arne Klawitter as well as the research collaborator Markus Joch contributed articles. Schwarz published on contemporary German South Seas novels, on sexual hospitality ascribed to Pacific islanders, and on German travels to Samoa.
On Dec. 10, 2016, Toyoda opened a workshop on ‘Pacificisms’ at Rikkyo University (RU), featuring international participants (Roman Lach, South Korea / Kai Koehler, Germany). The event was organized by a reading group comprising Kumekawa, Schwarz and other researchers at RU (Mary Reisel, Etsuko Miyata, Andrew Sutter). This was followed by a guest lecture (Ikuno Saito) on Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’ on Jan. 16.
Schwarz went for archival research on Austrian exoticist Robert Mueller to Vienna and presented results during a conference in Seoul. He visited the German Bundesarchiv to review military reports of the German navy on the repression of Pohnpei’s Sokehs Rebellion in 1911. In Chuuk, he went to the Micronesian Seminar to copy missionary reports on this event. He continued his field trip to Palau / Angaur for a documentation of the places, where the Sokehs were deported to. Schwarz presented results of this research on conferences in Vienna, Tokyo and a school on Chuuk.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
While we were making progress as planned with the publication of the volume on "Pazifikismus", ‘insularity’ appeared as an underrated feature of the discursive construction of the Pacific in our project, opening further horizons for challenging new research.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Workshop on 'Insularity' (July 8, 2017), publication of selected papers. Research of the co-investigator Arne Klawitter on German exoticist Hans Bethge. Research by the principal investigator Thomas Schwarz on Bethge and on the Micronesian Sokehs Rebellion in German archives (Bundesarchiv, Staatsbibliothek, Berlin). Presentation of the results on conferences not only in Tokyo (planned: Inselstraende und Huetten. Conference at Gakushuin University on "West-oestliche Raumfigurationen: Wohnen; Unterwegssein, 7./8.10.2017)", but also at the University of Flensburg / Germany (Gesellschaft fuer interkulturelle Germanistik, Sept. 2017) and at the University of Sydney / Australia (conference on "West-oestliche Wahlverwandtschaften. Hans Bethge").
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| Causes of Carryover |
The principal investigator Schwarz went to Micronesia in February, some of the bills could be reimbursed only in 2017.
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| Expenditure Plan for Carryover Budget |
Settlement of the above mentioned bills for the trip to Micronesia.
Invitation of co-researcher Arne Klawitter to a workshop on "Insularities" to Rikkyo University on July 8.
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Research Products
(24 results)
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[Presentation] Opening remarks2016
Author(s)
Yukio Toyoda
Organizer
Pacificisms. The Pacific as a Space of Resistance and Hybridity
Place of Presentation
Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Toshima-kukkyo University, Tokyo, Toshima-ku
Year and Date
2016-12-10 – 2016-12-10
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[Presentation] Closing remarks2016
Author(s)
Mario Kumekawa, Kai Koehler
Organizer
Pacificisms. The Pacific as a Space of Resistance and Hybridity
Place of Presentation
Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Toshima-ku
Year and Date
2016-12-10 – 2016-12-10
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