A Critical Study Against Scientific Discourse of Buraku Issue

• Project/Area Number: 25380733
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Institute on Social Theory and Dynamics
• Principal Investigator: KOBAYAKAWA Akira 特定非営利活動法人社会理論・動態研究所, その他部局, 研究員 (10601841)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): FUJITA Naritoshi 特定非営利法人社会理論・動態研究所, 研究員 (20605026) ; ITO Tairo 広島国際学院大学, 情報文化部, 教授 (80281765)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
• Keywords: 小数点在部落 / 屠畜 / 竹製品 / 製革 / 製靴 / 概念の構築 / 部落問題の科学的認識 / 部落産業 / 少数点在型部落 / 観念の構築 / 部落問題の「科学的」研究 / 部落弾業 / 竹細工 / 製靴産業 / 皮革産業 / 広島県 / 観念の構成

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The alleged “buraku industries,” i.e. slaughtering, leather and shoe production, and bamboo craft production, have never been industries peculiar to buraku. That burakumin had strong connections with such industries is an idea widely spread in Japanese society. The scientific discourse of buraku industry has produced stereotypes against buraku and burakumin. Established buraku studies are in part responsible for the formation of these stereotypes. From the early Meiji period, both managers and workers in the mainstream of these industries have been non-burakumin. Burakumin now, even though socially disadvantaged, play a role in local industry.
There are no industries existing only in buraku. No industry has either originated or been developed exclusively in a small community such as a buraku. This is the conclusion of the current study.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Quiet Buraku Discrimination : The Reproduction of Discrimination under Governance of Neo-liberalism (2016)
  • Author(s): KOBAYAKAWA Akira
  • Journal Title: Social Theory and Dynamics Volume: 1 Pages: 42-58
  • NAID: 40019162088
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] 差別と通俗道徳ー闘わなかったある被差別部落民一族の自立 (2015)
  • Author(s): 小早川明良
  • Journal Title: 理論と動態 Volume: ８ Pages: 20-38
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 他者の他者の創出――不安定化する地域と少数点在型の被差別部落の分析 (2013)
  • Author(s): 小早川明良
  • Journal Title: 理論と動態 Volume: 6 Pages: 73-92
  • NAID: 40019829360
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 近世・近代被差別部落の土地所有と職業 (2016)
  • Author(s): 小早川明良
  • Organizer: 社会理論動態研究所マイノリティ研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 社会理論動態研究所
  • Year and Date: 2016-02-20
• [Presentation] 「被差別部落民とはだれか」のために (2015)
  • Author(s): 小早川明良
  • Organizer: 社会理論動態研究所マイノリティ研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 社会理論動態研究所
  • Year and Date: 2015-12-06
• [Presentation] 軍都の被差別部落 (2015)
  • Author(s): 小早川明良
  • Organizer: 社会理論動態研究所マイノリティ研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 社会理論動態研究所
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-12
• [Presentation] 戦後思想と部落問題 (2015)
  • Author(s): 小早川明良
  • Organizer: 社会理論動態研究所マイノリティ研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 社会理論動態研究所
  • Year and Date: 2015-06-20
• [Presentation] 屠場の設置と被差別部落－尾道、福山、呉の場合 (2015)
  • Author(s): 小早川明良
  • Organizer: マイノリティ研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 社会理論・動態研究所
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-14
• [Presentation] 闘わなかった被差別部落民、その自立 (2015)
  • Author(s): 小早川明良
  • Organizer: マイノリティ研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 社会理論・動態研究所
  • Year and Date: 2015-02-21
• [Presentation] 方面委員制度と被差別部落 (2014)
  • Author(s): 小早川明良
  • Organizer: マイノリティ研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 社会理論・動態研究所
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-26
• [Presentation] 部落産業概念の成立と「部落産業」論 (2014)
  • Author(s): 小早川明良
  • Organizer: マイノリティ研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 社会理論・動態研究所
  • Year and Date: 2014-09-20
• [Presentation] 広島の被差別部落と竹製品生産をめぐる問題 (2014)
  • Author(s): 小早川明良
  • Organizer: マイノリティ研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 社会理論・動態研究所
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-27