The Changing Relation between intellectuals and popular classes in recent political transformations of the mediterranean societies

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380171
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Hosei University
• Principal Investigator: ONAKA Kazuya 法政大学, 国際文化学部, 教授 (60434180)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 政治 / 移民 / 地中海 / 国際学術交流 / グローバル・イシュー / フランス / 認識論 / 難民

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research project, we first translated G. Noiriel's work, French Melting Pot, in close collaboration with the author. This collaboration resulted in a series of conferences, which allowed us to exchange scientific informations on the subject. From Noiriel's point of view, it is not enough to say that the history of immigration describes conflictual process in which particular communities integrate with French society, but this discipline has an epistemological value to the extent that it deconstructs the dominant discourse on national history. The so-called migrant crisis and terrorist attacks in 2015 have transformed discourses of the intellectuals about the relations between societies in the Mediterranean region.　The gap between majority and minority in France has undoubtedly widened, even if the insistence on identity politics seems to transcend these societal divides. We then reflected on the difficult question of how to rethink social integration under these conditions.

Free Research Field

政治学、政治思想