A study on ideology and practice of creative survivor over catastrophes

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K18528
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Geography, Cultural anthropology, Folklore, and related fields
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Matsuda Motoji 京都大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (50173852)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 古川 彰 関西学院大学, 社会学部, 教授 (90199422)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-06-30 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 破局的状況 / 巨大地震 / ケニア / ネパール / 生活世界

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study focuses on their own capacity to cope with those victims and sufferers of catastrophes, and it can extend options of problem-solving channel to survive the catastrophe in the contemporary world. The aim of this study lied in this point. What is most examined here is a creative capability of ordinary people to newly form communality and solidarity among themselves. Those victims/sufferers would bring tolerance and openness to others onto the spaces/worlds of catastrophe, and finally generate a new form of communality/solidarity. This new form has been overlooked and ignored by those studies of disaster so far.

Free Research Field

文化人類学、アフリカ地域研究

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

破局的災厄を経験し生き残った人々は、いったいどのようにして、災厄を乗り越えていくことができるのだろうか。
本研究は、外部からの支援ではなく、深刻で破滅的な被害を経験した当事者が、さまざまな異質な思考、価値観、方法をつなぎ合わせ、張り合わせながら、自前で危機を突破する力を創出し被害者自身が災厄を乗り越えよりよき生を創造するのかについてそのメカニズムを解明することで新たな視点を提供する。