2018 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
日本におけるプレカリアート運動の文化実践とそのトランスナショナルなネットワーク
| Project/Area Number |
18F18704
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| Research Institution | Japan Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
澁谷 望 日本女子大学, 人間社会学部, 教授 (30277800)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
BROWN ALEXANDER 日本女子大学, 人間社会学部, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-11-09 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | social movements / precarity / anti-nuclear movement / transnational / Japan / Asia-Pacific |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The first stage in this research project conducted between December 2018 and March 2019 involved conducting a literature review and refining the scope of the project. Brown’s earlier work looked at the link between the emergence of a community of activists engaged in precarious forms of work and the anti-nuclear movement in Japan since March 2011. The anti-nuclear movement also accelerated the development of transnational links between these movements in the Asia-Pacific region. Brown’s existing work has already demonstrated the overlap between precarity movements and anti-nuclear movements. This area of overlap was therefore adopted as a focus for the current project. A survey of the literature on historical and contemporary transnational activist networks involving Japan revealed a gap with regard to the ways in which these networks in Japan and East Asia interact with those in Australia. The emerging field of transpacific studies was also identified as the most suitable area studies framework for examining activist networks at this scale. This process enabled a considerable tightening of the focus of the case studies which will be undertaken over the following two years of the research project.
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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
The project timeline included a period of three months at the outset of the project for the conduct of a literature review and organising field interviews to be completed over the first substantive year of the project commencing in April 2019. This literature review has produced two draft papers looking at the history of transnational activist networks in the Asia-Pacific. This work forms the basis of a book proposal currently under preparation for an academic publisher. Brown also submitted revisions to a book chapter on the role of film and music in precarity movements in Western Tokyo after the Fukushima nuclear disaster for an edited book.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
After Fukushima, the notion of precarity that animated transnational social movement links in the neoliberal period now incorporates a broader sense of the precarity of life itself thanks to a proliferation of environmental risks. Environmental crisis and nuclear energy issues are now a major focus for transnational activism in the Asia-Pacific. Yet at the transnational scale, these networks often depend on relationships involving small numbers of individuals who are in turn connected with larger networks at local scales. The biographical approach has been identified as a suitable methodology for conducting interview research on these multi-scalar social movements. A set of interview questions will be developed based on this approach and implemented during a field visit to Australia.
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Research Products
(1 results)
