Who revitalize a rural area? The duality of an identity of human resources who move between a city and a rural area

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K13889
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
• Research Institution: Nara University of Education (2020-2021); Japan Women's University (2019)
• Principal Investigator: HIDA Yuichiro 奈良教育大学, 学校教育講座, 特任准教授 (50825023)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 地域内よそ者 / 過疎地 / 地域活性化 / 地方創生 / 地域移動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I conducted a life story study of residents in a mountainous region (rural county area) where the population is declining rapidly, and developed a research framework for the formation of independence to engage in regional revitalization brought about by regional migration and the role it plays in regional revitalization. In the target area, a regional revitalization policy was implemented by promoting UI-turns. Residents who moved to the region retained experiences and skills that had been formed in the two regions before and after the move. The life story method was used to record the experiences of temporal and spatial migration, and to study the role of local residents who have different subjectivities from purely local residents born and raised in the local area in the revitalization of the local area. The study also clarifies the process from birth to the present of how residents who move from different regions to the region are integrated into the current region.

Free Research Field

社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

日本の人口が減少し始め、過疎化への対応をはじめとして様々な地域活性化の必要性が生じはじめている。日本ではこれまでの地域政策を振り返ると、中央主導で全国一律的な開発や一部の拠点を重点的に開発する形での地域活性化がおこなわれてきた。こうした流れに対して、近年では、地方創生をはじめとして、それぞれの地域が自律的にオリジナルな文脈で地域活性化をおこなうことが求められる傾向が強まっている。そうした中で、重要視されるのは、地域活性化を主体的におこなう人材であった。本課題では、そうした新たな局面を迎えた地域を活性化させる地域人材の機能と生育過程に着目した。