2023 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Trance Experiences of Belonging in Japan
| Project/Area Number |
23KF0032
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| Research Institution | Ochanomizu University |
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Principal Investigator |
戸谷 陽子 お茶の水女子大学, 基幹研究院, 教授 (30261093)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HARTLINE FRANCIS お茶の水女子大学, 基幹研究院, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2023-04-25 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | Transgender / LGBTQ+ / Queer / Identity / Resilience / gender diverse / empowerment |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Trans people in Japan are facing limited societal and legal recognition of their gender identities and experiences. In this research project, I investigated how trans people in Japan respond to the lack of formalised recognition, with a specific focus on how they find ways to cope or even thrive through individual and collective resilience. In doing so, I applied the analytical framework of belonging;how one experiences and responds to in/exclusion and non/recognition;to personal narratives by trans people as well as to trans community efforts in Japan. Through this framework, I explored strategies of resilience, such as adaptive modes of sense-making, community development and self-transformation.
In this project, I sought to move away from the victim hood framework of Euro-American gender studies by examining how trans people in Japan make sense of their limited socio-legal recognition and claim spaces for empowerment, community-building and social/national belonging. I also studied how experiences and responses are informed by local and global discourses on gender diversity and trans rights, and how trans people adopt and adapt these discourses in strategic ways as individuals and through community work. The project applied a transfeminist decolonising framework in order to trace the limitations of the Euro-American rights framework for understanding the nuances of trans experiences in both non Western contexts and the Western context.
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Research Products
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