| 研究課題/領域番号 |
18K02006
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| 研究機関 | 上智大学 |
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研究代表者 |
Slater David 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (70296888)
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| 研究期間 (年度) |
2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| キーワード | archive / oral narrative / refugees |
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| 研究実績の概要 |
We were able to exceed many of the key benchmarks we set at the start of our application. These included more than 400 hours of video with more than 75 different narrators over 186 interviews. Distinctive characteristics of the archive include in-depth interviewing (at least 6 2-hour interviewers per person) of 10 refugees, focusing on the 1. political situation that resulted in their persecution; 2. their treacherous travels to Japan; 3. their lives trying to fit into civil society, including a detailed focus on the state and civil society actors who were most instrumental in their lives. For this subset of the interview archived we created an open access website, combining their narratives with background information and other resources for extended presentation of their stories, each about 12,000 words in length. The open website is here: https://refugeevoicesjapannet.wordpress.com/. As such, we have added what is the largest oral narrative archive of refugees in Japan.
Also, we have also generated 5 different short video projects, which we have shown to audiences from the UK, US and of course Japan. The archive and the films have been nominated for the David Plath Award in visual anthropology, and are currently being used in more than a dozen classrooms around the world.
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| 現在までの達成度 (区分) |
現在までの達成度 (区分)
3: やや遅れている
理由
The last two years of this project has required us to develop new interview and ethnographic research techniques in order to protect researchers and research subject in this time of covid. Last year, we were able to turn this challenge into an opportunity, developing and presenting new approaches and techniques. This year, we were able to take advantage of these new techniques to re-double our efforts in data collection.
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| 今後の研究の推進方策 |
Considering the set backs due to covid, it was important for us to focus our efforts during this last year of the grant on data collection rather than publication--which we did. Thus, we are perfectly situated to use this exceptional data in publications. We currently have a contract with University of Hawaii Press for a monography on refugees in Japan, and two scholarly articles in preparation in top journals in Japanese Studies and Refugee Studies. Moreover, we are now able to build upon this foundation to pivot slightly to begin interviews with Ukrainian war evacuees currently residing in communities in Kanto, using the approaches and techniques we developed and refined during the course of our project so far.
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| 次年度使用額が生じた理由 |
As noted above, since the majority of the data collection of our project depended upon face to face interview situation, during COVID-19 outbreak, it was impossible to complete th eproject as planned. Since the majority of our funding is earmarked for data collection and processing (transcription, translating and coding) we were unable to spend the full amount of grant.
In 2022, the COVID-19 situation has eased for both the refugee narrators but also for the data collectors, transcribers and translators. This external situation, combined with our continued effort to make data collection under COVID-19 conditions safer and more efficient, we fully expect to spend the remainder of the grants in 2022.
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