2018 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Reconciliation: Treating Asia's Border Traumas with Traditional Medical Analogy
| Project/Area Number |
17KK0056
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| Research Institution | Ryukoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
陳 慶昌 龍谷大学, 国際学部, 准教授 (50569788)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018 – 2020
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| Keywords | 国際関係論 / 領土紛争 / 境界 / アジア医学 / ヒーリング |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The Principal Investigator (PI) arrived at New York on March 16, 2019 and has been working at the New School, his host institution, since then with Dr Jonathan Bach. He presented his research at the 2019 International Studies Association annual convention on how some Japanese scholars have been doing International Relations (IR) differently through studying China. The PI argues that knowledge production is inseparable from bordering practices in actual global politics and post-Westphalian IR theorizing thus has important implications for going beyond binary oppositions in border disputes. The PI expects to finish a manuscript for Oxford Bibliographies on IR theorizing in China and Japan in May.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
The PI's research and writing was slowed down unfortunately by the passing of his Overseas Joint Researcher in October 2018 and of his father in February 2019. Nevertheless, he has been spending substantial time in communicating with other research collaborators and followed their progress in reading and field work. As the PI has formally started his sabbatical at the New School with abundant resources in place, he expects that he will be able to reset himself soon and make sure the whole project stay on track. His preparation for a research-in-progress workshop at Ryukoku University ihas been on the way.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The PI is now working on two papers (one is about healing the Sino-Japanese dispute on the Senkaku Islands and the other Buddhist activities in bringing about reconciliation between Taiwan and China, co-authored with Dr Boyu Chen). It is expected that 10 working papers will be presented at a Ryukoku workshop on June 8-10, 2019 during which participants will also learn how to improve their research further. Major writing and revision will be done by the start of 2020 and the PI will come up with a book proposal and approach suitable publishers. An editor of Routledge's Worlding Beyond the West series had expressed interest in this Political Healing project when seeing the PI at the ISA conference.
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