2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Role of Indigenous Peoples in Rebuilding Democratic Nations in Latin America
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13571020
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
文化人類学(含民族学・民俗学)
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| Research Institution | Kyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
OTA Yoshinobu Kyushu University, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Professor, 大学院・比較社会文化研究院, 教授 (60203808)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
IIJIMA Midori Rikkyo University, Faculty of Law, Associate Professor, 法学部, 助教授 (20252124)
IKEDA Mitsuho Kumamoto University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (40211718)
KOZAKI Tomomi Senshu University, Department of Economics, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (70234747)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2003
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| Keywords | Indigenous Peoples / Latin America / Cultural Mobilization / Peace Accords / Neo-liberal economy / Maya People / Memory and History / Restitution and Redress |
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| Research Abstract |
This research has clarified how the relationships between the state and indigenous peoples have been changing in Latin America : in particular, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Bolivia. Among the four countries in question all four members of the research team have been to Guatemala and investigated the transitional phase in democratization. We found that Guatemala must face the past by remembering what had happened, in order to move forward to the future, rather than forgetting the undeniable atrocity many Mayan peoples have suffered. As part of an effort in reconstructing nation is restitution for the victims of the civil war ; however, it has been subject as usual to political manipulation during 2003.
Kozaki and Iijima have investigated the indigenous movements in Mexico, Nicaragua and Bolivia ; the Bolivian case is instructive in a sense that the Bolivian indigenous movements have been mobilized for the purpose of forging a force against the globalization-export of resource to outside. The weakness of indigenous social movements have been historically evident : it becomes easily co-opted by the state power for nationalism. The same has been repeated once again in 2003.
All four investigators feel that the role of indigenous politics cannot be ignored even in time of globalization, since it articulates, in a way different from the globalizing powers, the local-something that even the globalizing forces must anchor themselves-and the national and global. It utilizes the local connection as assets rather than constraints. These aspects of indigenous movements need further investigation.
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Research Products
(12 results)
