Approaching the Historical Experience of Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19H01619
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 09010:Education-related
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: Kitamura Kae 北海道大学, 教育学研究院, 教授 (20322779)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 先住民族の近代史 / ライフヒストリー／生命史 / 歴史記憶 / 植民地戦争 / 修学経験 / 脱帝国化 / ジェンダー / 台湾

Outline of Final Research Achievements

How can we represent the historical experiences of people who have left no words or writings about themselves? From this point, how can we renew the historical perspective and understanding of self and other that have been constructed by marginalizing or excluding certain people, and develop a new relationship among them? As an attempt to address these fundamental questions, this research explores the historical experiences of Taiwan's indigenous peoples.
This study utilizes a variety of historical sources, including colonial archives, ego-documents, oral histories, and field research to trace the trajectories of individuals and families of Taiwan’s indigenous peoples. By integrating these diverse sources, we aim to reconstruct polyphonic histories, which represent the different experiences and perspectives of Taiwan’s indigenous peoples.

Free Research Field

教育史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、個別具体的な歴史経験に即して植民地社会におけるマクロとミクロの権力作用を解明し、主体と構造の関係性の析出するための方法論の深化に寄与する。これは、これまで一方的に観察され記述されてきた人々の歴史を書き直していく重要なステップである。また、既存の教育学や歴史学が無視または均一化してきた経験を語るための新しい言葉や認識の枠組みについて新たな議論を開く。これらを通じて、現代の日本社会や世界各地で継続する人種主義や植民地主義の現実的地盤を掘り崩していくための洞察を提示する。