2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Studies in the Globalization of Gender: The Politics of Movement and Transformations of the Body
| Project/Area Number |
16310170
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Gender
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| Research Institution | Hitotsubashi University |
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Principal Investigator |
IYOTANI Toshio Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Professor (70126267)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HIRATA Yumi Osaka University, Graduate School of Letters, Professor (60153326)
NISHIKAWA Yuko Bunkyo University, Faculty of Humanities, Professor (50183538)
NARITA Ryuichi Japan Women's University, Faculty of Humanities, Professor (60189214)
TUBOI Hideto Nagoya University, Graduate School of Letters, Professor (90197757)
MIMA Tatsuya Kyoto University, Graduateschool of Medicine, Associate Professor (20324618)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2007
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| Keywords | Movement / Globalization / Gender / Place / Migration Studies / Narration / Migration of Women / Reproduction |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of the Project was twofold. First to question how Globalization Studies can respond and react to the issues addressed in Gender Studies? Second, to try and discover new issues that arise from a dynamic combination of Gender and Globalization Studies. As a method for combining these two disciplines of research the Project chose to focus on the movement and migration of women. Examining the issues involved through the lens of the movement and migration of women-in contrast to a focus on permanent residence in a single State or the idea of a fixed sense of "home"-the limits to State-bound modern knowledge and knowledge-making can be exposed. The Project begun by critically re-examining the methodology of Migration Studies to date and this task culminated in a Symposium, jointly held with the National Museum of Ethnology, entitled "Motion in Place/Place in Motion". The aim of this Symposium was to re-conceptualize the notion of Place-often thought to be fixed and rigid-through that of Motion. Using this re-examination of Migration Studies, the Project further attempted to theoretically clarify the gendering of migration and through creating a new conversation between the Social Sciences and Humanities, explored the issues raised by Gender and Globalization Studies. The Project carried out a Workshop entitled 'Women, Movement Narration", and the issues raised and developed in this Workshop were then presented at both the Australian National University(Canberra, Australia)and Cornell University (USA). Through this Workshop participants were once again made aware that (1), Globalization Studies have entered a new phase, (2), that there is now greater need for studies of female migrants and migration based upon the insights of Gender Studies, and (3), of the necessity of further dialogue between Globalization and Gender Studie
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