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2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

What is "Social Justice"for the Nepals Poor?

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18606006
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 社会開発と文化
Research InstitutionKyoto University

Principal Investigator

FUJIKURA Taturo  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Associate Professor (80419449)

Project Period (FY) 2006 – 2007
Keywordssocial j justice / human rights / development / poverty / conflict / democracy / anthropology
Research Abstract

This research aims to explore and describe how different groups of the poor in Nepal define "social justice" (samajik nyay) and how they are trying to realize it. On the background of this research project is the fact that, in the past 10 years, various groups within Nepals poorer axial strata have increasingly come to use the banns "social justice" and "justice" in talking about the situation in which they are in, and in talking about the need to change the situation. This research has aimed, through anthropological methods, to describe and analyze in when and in what situations, and with what senses and aims, these groups use the term, social justice. In particular the research has focused, among the poor groups of Nepal, the bonded agricultural laborers (called 'kamaiya'), and a dalit caste group called 'badi'. During the first year of the project, through archival researches and interviews, focused on reconstructing history at both the local and national levels. In the second and last year of the research project, sought to closely track and record the changing discourses and strategies of both the kamaiya and badi in the context of radical political and social changes in Nepal since 199) (including democratization, the Maoists' "People's War", the coup by the King, re-democratization and peace accord). With the data thus gathered, and through the continuing analysis of the detail changes in the strategies of these groups, it will be possible to grasp more dearly and in empirically grounded ways, the changing local, national and global dynamics that concern the axle-cultural and political lives of the poor in Nepal.

  • Research Products

    (14 results)

All 2008 2007 Other

All Journal Article (8 results) Presentation (4 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 「開発」と「革命」のはざまで-カマイヤ農業労働者とマオイスト2008

    • Author(s)
      藤倉 達郎
    • Journal Title

      民博通信 122号(印刷中)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 「変革と平和」-制憲議会選挙をひかえたネパール2008

    • Author(s)
      藤倉 達郎
    • Journal Title

      日本ネパール協会会報 207号

      Pages: 9-9

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Transformation and Peace : Nepal before the Constituency Assembly Elections(In Japanese)2008

    • Author(s)
      Fujikura, Tatsuro
    • Journal Title

      Japan-Nepal Society Newsletter no. 207

      Pages: 9-9

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Nepal and Its Donors - Partners in Lerning To Cope2008

    • Author(s)
      Sharma, Sudhindra, Annette, Skovsted, Hansen, Tatsuro, Fujikura, Juhani, Koponen
    • Journal Title

      Aid Relationship in Asia : Exploring Ownership in Japanese and Nordic Afri(Alf, Morten, Jerve, Yasutami, Shimomura, Annette, Skovsted, Hansen, eds.,)(New York : Palgrave)

      Pages: 133-150

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Review of Social Movement or Development Aid?2007

    • Author(s)
      Tatsuro Fujikura
    • Journal Title

      Studies in Nepali History and Society 12(1)

      Pages: 193-203

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Review of Social Movement or Development Aid?2007

    • Author(s)
      Fujikura, Tatsuro
    • Journal Title

      Studies in Nepali History and Society 12(1)

      Pages: 193-203

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The Bonded Agricultural Lobourers' Freedom Movement in Nepal2007

    • Author(s)
      Fujikura, Tatsuro
    • Journal Title

      Political and Social Transformations in North India and Nepal(Hiroshi, Ishii, David, Conner, Katsuo, Nawa, eds.,)(Delhi : Manohar)

      Pages: 319-459

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Between 'Development' and 'Revolution' : The Kamaiya Agricultural Laborers and the Maoists(In Japanese)

    • Author(s)
      Fujikura, Tatsuro
    • Journal Title

      MINPAKU TSUSHIN no. 122(In press)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Presentation] 現代ネパールの「対決型政治」についての一考察2008

    • Author(s)
      藤倉 達郎
    • Organizer
      「マオイスト運動の台頭と変動するネパール」研究会
    • Place of Presentation
      国立民族学博物館
    • Year and Date
      2008-02-23
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Presentation] 'Contentious Politics' in Contemporary Nepal.(In Japanese)2008

    • Author(s)
      Fujikura, Tatsuro
    • Organizer
      Research Group on the "Growth of Maoist Movement and Changing Nepal."
    • Place of Presentation
      National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
    • Year and Date
      2008-02-23
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Presentation] ネパール貧困層と生存のための政治2008

    • Author(s)
      藤倉 達郎
    • Organizer
      G-COE持続的生存基盤の発展を目指す地域研究拠点・「地域の知的潜在力」研究会
    • Place of Presentation
      京都大学東南アジア研究所
    • Year and Date
      2008-01-28
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Presentation] Nepal's Poor and the Politics of Survival2008

    • Author(s)
      Fujikura, Tatsur
    • Organizer
      Research Group on the Intellectual Potentialities of Areas, G-COE Program, In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa
    • Place of Presentation
      Center of Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto
    • Year and Date
      2008-01-28
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] Sharma, S, Hansen, A.N, Fujikura, T.and Koponen, J."Nepal and Its Donors: Partners in Learning to Cope." In A.M. Jerve, et. al. (eds.) Aid Relationships in Asia2008

    • Author(s)
      Jerve, Alf Morten, et. al.
    • Total Pages
      133-150
    • Publisher
      Palgrave
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] Fujikura, Tatsuro. "The Bonded Agricultural Labourer's Freedom Movement in Nepal", In H. Ishii, et. al. (eds), Political and Social Transformations in Northen South Asia2007

    • Author(s)
      Ishii, Hiroshi, et. al.
    • Total Pages
      319-359
    • Publisher
      Manohar
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より

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Published: 2010-02-04  

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