Global Justice Movement: The Sphere of International Mutual Understanding

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K17195
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: TOMINAGA KYOKO 立命館大学, 産業社会学部, 准教授 (70750008)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: カウンターカルチャー / 社会運動 / グローバリズム / ツーリズム / 観光

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Two monographs (in Japanese) and four articles (one in English and three in Japanese are published. Two of fours are refereed). This research discusses from a cultural perspective how Japanese activists deconstruct conventional forms of organization and collective identity to construct alternative type of activism in contemporary Japan. Previous studies have regarded social movement as an organizational behavior based on collective political identity. However, the situation has drastically shifted after individualization and fluidalization.
This research argues that the shift of social movement has much to do with the decline of counterculture in the era of individualization. Protester's participation in social movement does not show a shared ideology, principle, political style against the mainstream, which counterculture used to have and differentiate into numerous kinds of subcultures with individualized fashion, preference and purpose of political participation.

Free Research Field

社会学