Exclusion and inclusion of the marginalized communities-Creation of social agency in the post conflict Colombia

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K12511
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 80010:Area studies-related
• Research Institution: Sophia University
• Principal Investigator: HATAYA NORIKO 上智大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (00338435)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 千代 勇一 帝京大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (90806382)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: コロンビア / 辺境 / 和平構築 / 紛争 / コミュニティ運動 / エスニック・マイノリティ / 国内避難民 / テリトリー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In 2019, Professor David Burbano (Pontifical Javeriana University, Colombia), our overseas research collaborator, came to Japan hosted by Sophia University for three months research on Satoyama and Satoumi in order to gain a comparative understanding of the peripheral communities between the two countries. We visited together different case villages in Japan and also to Tumaco City, Narino Department in Colombia.
In 2020 and 2021, due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, we had to suspend our fieldwork, which required mobility, but instead, we focused on literature survey on cases and their historical background, through active online study sessions. From 2022 onwards, we resumed follow-up research in Colombia, organized a panel session at the yearly congress of Japanese Association of Latin American Studies in June 2022. Through 2023 we concentrated in writing up our final report as our outcome of four-year research project, which is scheduled to be published in June 2024.

Free Research Field

ラテンアメリカ地域研究および社会学、人文地理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

南米コロンビアを舞台に、「辺境」の形成過程とその実態を、複数の事例研究をもとに、個々の歴史的背景も踏まえて明かにした。この研究を通じて、政府と反政府武装勢力との和平合意後も、紛争地においては辺境コミュニティが可視性を獲得しつつも、新しい暴力や排除の対象となる可能性が生まれる現実があり、それらの相克の実態と原因、背景を分析することが、紛争後の辺境地域の主体的再生の可能性と課題を明らかにすることができることを示した。コロンビアの現状の分析は、地域や大陸を超えて、紛争や開発の矛盾を抱える地域の理解と問題解決（日本国内の過疎地域や被災地域の再建も含めて）を考えるためにも有益である。