2017 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Comparing governance of lesbian communities in Singapore and Japan
| Project/Area Number |
17K02091
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| Research Institution | Keiwa College |
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Principal Investigator |
虎岩 朋加 敬和学園大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (00566721)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | sexuality / gender / governmentality / subjectivity / identity / community |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In 2017, we developed the interview schedule; pilot tested the data collection instrument; located the target population in both Singapore and Japan; developed recruitment materials and disseminated them through communication channels that provided access to the target population in each country. We submitted and received IRB permission. We held a project meeting in Japan to develop the interview schedule and the final data collection strategy. We made several connections with the target populations during the project meetings in Japan and in Singapore. As we planned, we elaborated our theoretical framework and we wrote a paper that is going to be presented at the 2018 meetings of the American Sociological Association.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
We are on schedule and not ahead of schedule. We are progressing as we planed. We are presently conducting interviews.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In 2018 we are planning to complete interviews and start data analysis. We are also planning to write two papers. We will hold a project meeting in Singapore to discuss the progress of data collection efforts and to address any concerns or issues that exist at that point. During this period, we will also give a presentation about the two types of governmentality that comprise the theoretical framework of this project at a meeting of the LGBT international study group that we both belong to. This will provide an opportunity to receive meaningful feedback from scholars in the field.
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| Causes of Carryover |
The translation of transcripts from Japanese to English is very expensive and we didn't receive the amount of funding that we asked. The translations would have made us go over budget and would have made further progress of the project impossible. For this reason we made a decision not to translate the entire transcripts and do only parts that we deem necessary. This is the reason we did not spend the given amount of the funding in 2017. This year we will use the money for transcripts and translation.
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Research Products
(2 results)
