被災者の口頭物語を通して建築コミュニティの復興力の分析

2015 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15F15787
• Research Institution: Sophia University
• Principal Investigator: Slater David 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (70296888)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): FULCO FLAVIA 上智大学, 比較文化研究所, 外国人特別研究員
• Project Period (FY): 2015-11-09 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: disaster recovery / storytelling / oral narratives / Ethnography

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

In the first few months of her fellowship at Sophia Dr. Fulco have started to work at "Voices from Tohoku" project. This means that she is going through the narratives that have already been collected in the previous years of this project and she began analyzing them. Beside working on the collected narratives from the archive, she went to Tohoku several times to build her personal contacts and collecting more narratives.
In Tohoku she went to Minamisanrikucho were she have been doing volunteer activities while observing the state of the area's recovery and reconstruction. Besides, recently she have started to visit other locations in Miyagi prefecture such as Ishinomaki, Onagawa and Ogatsu to develop a vision of the complexity of the realities of Tohoku, it's important to see as much places as possible.
As a part of the research plan she went to Berkeley (California) to attend two workshops on digital storytelling. This is a technique which she value very helpful to collect and understand people's stories and she is very willing to apply some of the contents of this technique to my research analysis.
She is currently working on the kataribe (storytelling of the disaster) and on the role of the disaster in the identity of the new communities that will be rebuilt in Tohoku.

Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

While working on the archive "Voices of Tohoku" Dr. Fulco is also developing her own fieldwork. For that reason she is away from Tokyo several days each month. We consider both of these target are important for the development of the research.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

For the future Dr. Fulco will continue her analysis of the oral narratives collected by the "Voices from Tohoku" project and we hope she will present the result of her findings in future conferences.
We also hope that she will continue her fieldwork in Tohoku and will develop new ideas and research approaches. Both the topic she is focusing on at the moment, on the one hand kataribe-storytelling and on the other how the memory of the disaster is being transferred into reconstruction plannings, appear to be very interesting and we really hope to see some results during the course of the following year.
She has also sent application to participate in conference both in Japan and abroad and we expect her participation to be accepted and hope to see the findings of her research progresses presented in conferences or in journal articles.