Articulation and its significance between geography and internationalism in the early to late modern era

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K03248
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Human geography
• Research Institution: Wakayama University
• Principal Investigator: Shimazu Toshiyuki 和歌山大学, 教育学部, 教授 (60216075)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 地理学史 / 国際主義 / アート / １９世紀 / パリ / ロンドン / マリアンヌ・ノース

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study explored the articulation and its significance between geography as an intellectual enterprise in broader sense and internationalism as idea and practice in the early to late modern era. By definition, geography has acquired a broader scope of inquiry beyond the nation and its territories as geography had begun as the description of the whole earth. On the other hand, internationalism has emerged paradoxically along with the establishment of the sovereign state. The articulation between geography and internationalism has been neither inevitable nor accidental. Their interrelationships have evolved in a spatially and temporally variable manner in the course of the nation-state formation in the early to late modern era.

Free Research Field

人文地理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

地理学と国際主義との関係性は従来自明視され，あまり顧みられることがなかった。また，国際主義の一般的イメージは「リベラル国際主義」に偏り，「ヘゲモニー国際主義」や「革命的国際主義」についての理解が充分とはいえない。本研究ではパリやロンドンを事例として，アート（芸術作品）を媒介として地理学とヘゲモニー国際主義が偶有的に接合してゆく様態の一端を解明した。また本研究では，地理学と国際主義の関係性を１９世紀後半に遡って理解することの重要性と意義を呈示することができた。