Freedom, Development and Indigenous People: Case of Mexico

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K02001
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Ukeda Hiroyuki 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (20466816)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: 先住民 / 自由 / 多文化主義 / メキシコ / インフォーマリティ / 貧困 / オトミー / EZLN

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The research on bilingual education, which constitutes the main topic of our study, did not lead to the publication of an editorial book, but we obtained qualitative data in collaboration with local researchers, and produced and published videos and websites of the indigenous migrants. And as a research development that we had not initially considered, we started a comparative study of EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) and Yamagishi-kai of Japan reporting its results at two international conferences. Concerning the theorization of “indigenous peoples and freedom”, our framework was presented in an article published in the Journal Toyo-Bunka (Oriental Culture).

Free Research Field

地域研究

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

特定のコミュニティへの長期に及ぶ実態調査に基づき、学際的な観点から先住民の自由に貢献する諸条件を探る本研究は、ディシプリンにより分断されがちであったり、「経済発展も独自の文化の保持も必要だ」といった建前論で終わりがちな先住民をめぐる研究にはない学術的、社会的意義を有する。コロナ禍への対策を先住民、現地研究者と一緒に考えたように、本研究は客観性を重んじるアプローチとアクション・リサーチを融合する意義も持つ。