2023 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
| Project/Area Number |
21K00340
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
竹谷 悦子 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (60245933)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
阿部 幸大 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 助教 (40991013)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Keywords | The nuclear Pacific / Malcolm X / Nation of Islam / Mother Plane / Hiroshima / 9/11 |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This project is an effort to make legible the genealogy and dynamic contours of the postwar aerial imaginary, and the corollary shifting grounds for (human) races in the planetary imaginary, by reading across materials in a range of cultural forms, from literary fiction and nonfiction, and to visual media ranging from map to photography and film, that track the traces of networks that organize the transnational Pacific after World War II. We call these historically specific materials “aerial archives” of the (nuclear) Pacific. Etsuko Taketani examined the ways Japan’s air war impacted on and left a lasting resonance in the development of aerial and planetary imaginaries in the black (nuclear) Pacific, in particular in the Nation of Islam’s concept of the Mother Plane. Kodai Abe worked on the nuclear Pacific by lookin at the two Ground Zeros, Hiroshima and 9/11.
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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
Etsuko Taketani was able to make two research trips in Canada and the United States, and Kodai Abe presented a paper at the annual American Studies Association conference (Canada).
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
We intend to visit Washington DC to conduct research in the Library of Congress and Smithsonian museums.
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