Colonialism and anti-colonialism as seen from the perspective of trans-imperial relationality: the historical structures of comparison, collaboration, co-existence, and movement

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16H03501
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of Europe and America
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: Mizutani Satoshi 同志社大学, グローバル地域文化学部, 教授 (90411074)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 難波 ちづる 慶應義塾大学, 経済学部(三田), 教授 (20296734) ; 中里 成章 東京大学, 東洋文化研究所, 名誉教授 (30114581) ; 吉田 信 福岡女子大学, 国際文理学部, 准教授 (60314457) ; 西山 暁義 共立女子大学, 国際学部, 教授 (80348606)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 植民地主義 / 反植民地主義 / 帝国 / 歴史学 / 比較のポリティクス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Whenever historians gather together to study various empires in a collaborative setting, they tend to conduct ‘comparative research’, first treating each of the empires separately and then compare them later. In contrast, our group took a ‘trans-imperial’ approach. Rather than merely comparing different empires, we tried to describe and analyze how the different empires in question interacted with one another in their (trans-)formations, and how they themselves used comparison as a medium to engage in such interactions. The results of our research were presented at several symposiums and workshops before finally published in an international academic journal.

Free Research Field

植民地研究

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

4年間の共同研究の結果、「間-帝国史研究」のための理論・方法論の構築のための論点を整理し、いくつかのモデル・ケースを提示することができた。これにより、帝国史研究全体を賦活し、より多くの歴史研究者を間-帝国史研究への参入に促すという本研究の意義を程度達成することができた。