Research on the Catastrophic Situation of Multicultural Society and the Experiences of Multiple Exclusion and Discrimination - From Hanshin to Other Regions

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K13881
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
• Research Institution: Tottori University
• Principal Investigator: INAZU HIDEKI 鳥取大学, 地域学部, 准教授 (10707516)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 多文化社会 / 破局的状況 / 排除・差別 / 複合経験 / カタストロフィ / 阪神・淡路大震災 / 軌跡の渦巻く場所からの想像力

Outline of Final Research Achievements

As a result of this research, we would approach sociological theory and methods that incorporate a perspective that simultaneously encompasses multiple events, such as the experience of disasters not limited to the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (Covid-19 disaster, water disasters, war damage, etc.), through dialoging with anthropologists and geographers. Capturing and describing "imagination from a place where trajectories swirl" in the world of everyday life, as a result, instead of a previous approach that is limited to a single group (e.g. Korean residents in Japan) or a single region (e.g. Kobe), which has been the premise of migration/disaster research up until now, It has made it possible to understand and describe society by imaginatively linking the two, while discussing the experiences of multiple discrimination and exclusion.to This is the greatest achievement of this research.

Free Research Field

社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、第1に、多文化社会化の進む地域社会の破局的状況と排除・差別の複合経験はどのような経験であるか、第2に、この経験を踏まえた多文化共生論の再構想はいかにして可能となるかという課題を掲げて遂行された。計画当初は、阪神・淡路大震災との関わりを念頭に置いていたが、コロナ禍に見舞われ、調査内容の変更や遅れを余儀なくされた。だが、研究期間の実績を振り返ると、上の問いを探究する理論的・方法論的な知的貢献のみならず、港湾都市・神戸を軸におきながらも複数のアクター・複数の地域に開かれた歴史的空間的な視座をもつ批判的モノグラフを提出できたことには大きな学術面・社会的な意義があると考える。