2021 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
2000-2020年におけるロシアのメディアによる国際関係を描き出す手法の変化
| Project/Area Number |
20K01529
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| Research Institution | Sophia University |
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Principal Investigator |
Burrett Tina 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 准教授 (10551187)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Keywords | Russia / Media / International Relations / Politics / Vladimir Putin / Press Freedom / Diplomacy |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Since April 2021 I have completed research for three chapters that will form part of the book I will publish on Russian media and foreign relations and that will be the main output of this kakenhi project. This work has been conducted as part of my sabbatical at the University of Cambridge since September 2021 (ending July 2022). I am currently pitching this book to various UK publishers including Cambridge University Press. I have also given five academic presentation on my kekenhi research this year. The details are as follows: 1. ‘Comparing Russian Media Reporting of Alexander Litvinenko and Sergei Skripal’, PSA Conference, University of York, UK, April 2022. 2. ‘How Does Russian State-Directed Media Report on Former Soviet States?’, BBC Media Action Workshop, BBC, London UK, February 2022. 3. ‘Putin, Propaganda and Partisanship in Russia’s Media’, Clare Hall Colloquium, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, January 2022. 4. ‘State Controls Over the Digital Space in Russia: Implications for News Media’, International Journalism Week, Centre for Freedom of the Media, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, November 2021. 5. ‘New Media, Old Problems: Curbing Media Freedom in Asia and Russia’, Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University (online) October 2021.In December 2021 I successfully pitched a book project on Contested Memory and Trauma in East Asia to Routledge. I will co-edit this book with a colleague in Japan. I am now writing a chapter on President Putin and the use of WW2 memorises in diplomacy with countries in East Asia.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
Owing to the war in Ukraine I have had to cancel my plans to conduct field work research interviews with journalists in Russia. Instead, I have been able to speak to contacts in Russia via Zoom, but the culture of repression in Russia at the moment means some planned interviewees are reluctant to talk. My work has also been interrupted by requests from the media for me, as a Russian politics scholar, to comment on the current war. I have published several journalism pieces on the war that relate to my kakenhi project theme. Sample articles can be found here: https://newint.org/features/2022/04/08/volunteers-shouldering-ukraine-humanitarian-response and here: https://newint.org/features/2022/03/04/russia-ukraine-war-peace-protest. Access to Russian media sites that I need to consult for my research have been blocked by the UK government. I am able to access some of this media content via the University of Cambridge archives. But access is more time consuming and partial than before Russia's latest incursion into Ukraine on 24 February 2022. I have had to redraft and reframe some of my earlier book chapters for this project in light of the renewed war in Ukraine. But on a positive note, the importance of my research topic on Russian media and international relations is now more evident to scholars and the general public. I hope this will increase interest in the book I propose to publish.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Over the next three months of my sabbatical in Cambridge I will finish work on a book chapter on President Putin and the use of WW2 memorises in diplomacy with countries in East Asia. I will also complete the first round of edits on chapters for my co-edited book on Trauma and Contested Memory. This book is due for publication in December 2022.
While in Cambridge, I also plan to collect research materials to write two more chapter for my kakenhi book project. These chapters will be written between September 2022 and spring 2023 alongside my teaching commitments.
I also intend to find a publisher for my kakenhi book by the end of 2022.
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| Causes of Carryover |
In the next year I will use funds to travel to Cambridge to use the Russian media archives at the Cambridge University Library. I will also use funds to travel to the UK to present at the British Association of Slavic and Eastern European Studies conference. I will further take a research trip to Central Asia to interview journalists about reporting on international affairs. I previously planned to travel to Moscow, but as this is now impossible because of the Ukraine war, I have made contingency plans to visit Kazakhstan instead. I will also use my research funds to cover access to the BBC media monitoring archives of Russian media. This is also part of a contingency plan, as I had planned to directly access Russian media websites, but these are now blocked owing to the war.
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