| 研究実績の概要 |
Phases two and three of the research project conducted between April 2019 and March 2021 involved an overseas field research and archival research expedition to Australia, taking in Cairns, Canberra, Darwin and Jabiru. Based on the intersection between notions of precarity and anti-nuclear movements identified during phase one, I focused on conducting interviews with activists involved in transnational networks of anti-nuclear activism involving Japan, Australia and Pacific Asia. These interviews revealed the intersection between precarious forms of transnational mobility, particularly Japanese working holiday makers in Australia and Australian exchange student experiences in Japan, and anti-nuclear activism after Fukushima. They also identified at the precarity of Indigenous peoples within the Australian legal framework and the way transnational networks have enabled these actors to articulate their struggles beyond national borders. The interview results suggested that a biographical ‘life history’ approach would enable us to best make sense of what is going on in transnational activist networks involving Australia and Japan. In Tokyo, I continued my ongoing participant-observation of precarity activist networks, including the peace movement in Tachikawa (Sunagawa area) and underground culture in Kunitachi and Koenji. Based on the research so far, we have learned that a long history of transnational activist networking underpins more recent networks.
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