Transnational racial groups and the right to self-determination in the League of Nations.

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K01509
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 06020:International relations-related
• Research Institution: Tokai University
• Principal Investigator: Araki Keiko 東海大学, 国際学部, 教授 (00512633)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: パン・アフリカニズム / 黒人史 / アフリカン・ディアスポラ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

During the entire period of this research, I have published 2 books (1 single-authored and 1 co-authored), 3 peer-reviewed single-authored papers (2 in English and 1 in Japanese), and 3 oral presentations. Overall, the major achievement of this project was to deepen the research on the movement for the right to self-determination of Black people beyond national borders and their Pan-Africanism activities.
Difficulties in field research abroad due to the new coronavirus pandemic have hampered research on the the League of Nations. On the other hand, the significant development of the Black Lives Matter movement at the beginning of the second year of the research period led to results that examine the contemporary significance of Pan-Africanism.

Free Research Field

アフリカン・ディアスポラ研究

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

脱国家的な人種集団が自決権の主体になりうるのかという「非常識」な問いが、社会進化論やそれに裏打ちされた植民地主義が蔓延っていた20世紀初頭においては、ある程度の正当性をもって扱われていたことを明らかにできた点が学術的な意義である。また、21世紀に入りアフリカン・ディアスポラのアフリカ開発への参加が新たなパン・アフリカニズムとして模索されている中で、それを検討するための歴史的事象を明らかにできた点は社会的な意義と考えられる。