2021 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
A Study of Quality of Life and Shifting Ikigai: Encounters with Cosmopolitics in Central Hokkaido
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20K12339
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido University |
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Principal Investigator |
Hansen Paul 北海道大学, メディア・コミュニケーション研究院, 特任教授 (30609722)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | affect / anthropology / ba / cosmopolitics / ikigai / One Health / posthumanism / rural studies |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
I continued ethnographic research in Northern Tokachi on machi zukuri, NPO, and tourist industries such as winter sports in the the Tomamu and Nukabira area. This research focused on ikigai (or what gives life meaning)to people working in areas that are usually considered to be poorly paying. In terms of research output I attach a list of publications, for example book chapters, articles and a co-edited special issue in Asian Anthropology. I also attended online conferences and organized a panel for the Association of Asian Studies in Seattle. Further details are added in the following sections.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
I am lucky in that my research is based in Hokkaido. Corona has put a halt to my usual conference output with only two last year:
Hansen Organizer: March 2021- 4-member panel organizer for the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) (based in Seattle Online). Panel title Rethinking Space, Subject, and Body in Japan through Heterotopia. Paper title “Rural Emplacements: Linking Heterotopia, One Health and ikigai in Central Hokkaido”
November 2021, “Making Sense of Your Senses: Doing Ethnographic Research in Japan” Invited Speaker University of Hyogo lecture series invited speaker (Online) \
This is explains some of my carry over funds as I usually present at at least 4 conferences a year.
However research, as noted above,is going well. Extremely rewarding was being able to work with staff at Tomamu ski resort. I am not sure if this will be possible next year. Research on northern Tokachi towns has not been a problem in terms of access.
It seems that this year the ability to present at conferences (Such as JAWS in July) and be a visiting scholar/researcher at University of Calgary's Institute for Public Health (August) should go as planned. I have no major changes planned Re: my initial proposal.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Again, lucky not to be doing major fieldwork outside of Hokkaido I have been very fortunate where other anthropologists working further afield have not. Thus, I will continue to conduct ethnographic and historical research and interviews in Northern Tokachi and briefly Alberta. I have comparative interviews on life's meaning in the Rocky Mountain House area of Alberta and research meetings and collaboration with The University of Calgary's Institute for Public Health (notably, as before, with Prof. Melanie Rock's team)related to One Health and rural cosmopolitics in August. In terms of output, I am the co-organizer of a double panel at JAWS in Barcelona in July. I have One publication under review and I am in the process of writing another on Tourism in Tomamu. And I hope to start of a draft of the book, the capstone of this project, by the end of the summer.
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| Causes of Carryover |
I am lucky in that my research is based in Hokkaido. Corona has put a halt to my usual conference output with only two last year. This is explains some of my carry over funds as I usually present at at least 4 conferences a year.
However research, as noted above,is going well. It seems that this year the ability to present at conferences (Such as JAWS in July) and be a visiting scholar/researcher at University of Calgary's Institute for Public Health (August) should go as planned. I have no major changes planned Re: my initial proposal.
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