2014 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
ネットワーク化したボランティア活動：復興のテクノ社会的な諸次元
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14F04005
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
内山田 康 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (50344841)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
O'DAY Robin 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-25 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 文化人類学 / 民族誌 / フィールドワーク / 社会運動 |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The research proposal included a plan to use the first 12-months to conduct ethnographic fieldwork research. Since beginning the fellowship, Dr. O’Day have been concentrating his efforts on conducting participant observation and interviewing with different civil society organizations involved in confronting the complex political and social challenges of recovering from the triple disaster of March 11, 2011. Dr. O’Day has gathered substantial ethnographic data over the last 8-months. Dr. O’Day has also been involved in working on a digital archive project based at Sophia University that is collecting oral narratives about the 3.11 disaster. The digital archive project involves professors, postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students from Sophia University, the University of Tsukuba, the University of Tokyo, and Waseda University. Working on the digital archive also provides us with access to the full archive to use in collaboration with our own research project. Dr. O’Day has also presented research papers at three conferences including The University of Tsukuba’s Global Science Week, The Anthropology of Japan in Japan Fall meeting at Nanzan University, and The Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C. Dr. O’Day has also presented his research in our department of History and Anthropology, at a joint symposium at Sophia University with visiting researchers from Georgetown University, and participated in the JSPS Science Dialogue Program.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The research project is progressing well. Dr. O’Day is achieving the intended targets identified in the research proposal. Appropriate ethnographic research is being conducted under the general theme of investigating the techno-social dimensions of disaster recovery by studying social movement organizations involved in disaster recovery. Fieldwork research requires access to different communities, and groups. Dr. O’Day is doing a good job at working through networks and personal connections that he is developing while conducting fieldwork. Dr. O’Day will continue to conduct fieldwork research throughout the duration of the fellowship.
Dr. O’Day is also in the process of organizing and analyzing the data that he is collecting. He is planning on presenting some of the data that has been collected at upcoming national and international conferences. Furthermore, Dr. O’Day is also in the process of identifying different aspects of the research that can be developed into research articles to be published in peer reviewed journals. In other words, Dr. O’Day has made excellent progress during the first part of the fellowship, and has a solid research plan for the remainder of the research program.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Dr. O’Day will continue to do work on three main areas during the fellowship, which includes (1) fieldwork, (2) conferences presentations (3) and academic publications. Therefore, Dr. O’Day will continue gathering ethnographic data through the method fieldwork. Dr. O’Day will present three more papers at international conferences within the next year. He will present different aspects of our research project at the Japan Studies Association of Canada annual meeting to be held at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo in May 2015. He will present another paper at the Asian Studies Conference Japan at Meiji Gakuen University in June 2015. He will also present a third research paper at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting in Colorado in December 2015. Dr. O’Day is also in the process of writing up different sections of our research project for publication in peer reviewed academic journals. Dr. O’Day is aiming to submit one or more research articles before the end of the JSPS fellowship.
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Research Products
(3 results)
