| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
FURUKI Toshiaki Chuo University, Faculty of Law, Professor, 法学部, 教授 (70055185)
NAKAJIMA Yasuyo Chuo University, Faculty of Law, Professor, 法学部, 教授 (90217729)
KAWAHARA Akira Chuo University, Faculty of Law, Professor, 法学部, 教授 (30224819)
KOJIMOTO Hideo Hirosaki University, Faculty of Humanities, Associate Professor, 人文学部, 助教授 (00308230)
TABUCHI Rokuro Nagoya University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Associate Professor, 環境学研究科, 助教授 (20285076)
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| Research Abstract |
(1) This study evolves from our ideas of constructing the 21st century "codevelopment" system, against the increasingly frequent problems of exclusion in the tide of globalization. It seeks to clarify the modes of "wisdom" lived and embodied, for "codevelopment," in "frontier" areas in Europe, which coexist with while conflicting, merging, amalgamating, and intertwining with one another. Under such objectives, we conducted research and interviews in certain areas, regarding the autonomy and independence of local areas, global inter-cooperation among communities, and composite/complex/hybrid identities of community residents, using such key concepts as "codevelopment" and "socio-cultural islands."
(2) As a result of our series of research in Aland, Sardegna, Venezia Giulia, Istra (borderland among Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia), we have come up with a key concept of "metamorphosis of liminality/borderland (confine, cumfinis)."
(3) The concept of "liminality/borderland (confine, cumfinis)"
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here not only includes actual borders among countries but also suggests minute, "internal" borders such as cultural borders and mental borders. For example, Slovenian residents in Trieste who are mentally challenged are "those who embody and live with various levels of liminality," and Istra, Sardegna, and Aland are areas that are composed of "those who live liminal lives" in that they hold varieties of particular historical and social contexts. It has been our recognition that the wisdom accumulated in such local communities could significantly contribute to constructing "codevelopment" system.
(4) Through this comparative area study, we have come to recognize the various different modes of conflict, compound, intertwining, and interweave, which are found to be particular to each community and family, and their diverse ways of responding toward such "encounters." Upon recognizing this, we have come to see it as our new research task to answer the following questions, concerning people who live in border areas, in which the shifts in national borders, the mobility of people, and the "merging, intertwining, and interweaving" of cultures take place, and who live in "borderlands" such as islands that are open to sea: What socio-cultural conflicts do those residents face? How do they respond to such conflicts? How do they metamorphose themselves in their processes of responding? To answer such questions, we need to further investigate and refine our theories regarding "liminality/borderland (confine, cumfinis)." Less
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