The Study on the Ethnographic Approach to the Bad Governance in East African Pastoral Societies

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24651275
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: University of Shizuoka
• Principal Investigator: KONAKA Shinya 静岡県立大学, 国際関係学部, 教授 (30275101)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SAGAWA Toru 慶應義塾大学, 文学部, 助教 (70613579)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 国際研究者交流 / 東アフリカ / 牧畜社会 / ガヴァナンス / フロー / 紛争 / 国内避難民 / インフォーマル経済

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project has explored to develop a new ethnographic approach in order to describe the complex situation under the bad governance of the nation-state with intensive field research from the viewpoint of interdisciplinary area studies. The main target of this approach is the East African pastoral societies where small conflicts frequently broke out.
Consequently, the new ethnographic approach that reconsider the relationship between national governance and local governance as "societies replaces (dysfunctional) state" has been found with a new theoretical framework of "structural dysfunctionalism (the theoretical approach that reexamines local communities in relation to the perpetual dysfunction of the states)".

Free Research Field

地域研究・文化人類学