An Anthropological Study on Organizing the Network of Care in the Post-welfare Era

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H05174
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: National Museum of Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: MORI Akiko 国立民族学博物館, グローバル現象研究部, 教授 (00202359)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 天田 城介 中央大学, 文学部, 教授 (70328988) ; 内藤 直樹 徳島大学, 大学院社会産業理工学研究部(社会総合科学域), 准教授 (70467421) ; 高橋 絵里香 千葉大学, 大学院人文科学研究院, 准教授 (90706912) ; 岡部 真由美 中京大学, 現代社会学部, 准教授 (40595477)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): IWASA Mitsuhiro 高知大学, 人文社会科学部, 准教授 (20549670) ; HAMADA Akinori 関西大学, 社会学部社会学科・社会システムデザイン専攻, 准教授 (30707253)
• Research Collaborator: THELEN Tatjana University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Professor ; BUADAENG Kwanchewan Chiang Mai University, Department of Sociology-Anthropology of Faculty of Social Sciences, Lecturer ; AULINO Felicity University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Anthropology, Assistant Professor ; DANELY Jason Oxford Brookes University, Department of Social Sciences, Senior Lecturer
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 文化人類学 / ケア / 家族 / 市民 / 国家 / 市場 / 共生 / 民族誌

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The main objective of this research project is to examine how care is practiced in the modern world, where the operation of statehood is changing. First, we investigated how care is organized and arranged for immigrants, refugees, and displaced persons, who are positioned on the boundaries of the state. Second, we explored how care for the aged is reorganized in aged and super-aged societies. The results reveal that care is enacted as social infrastructure across diverse sectors such as the state, markets, civics, and family. The practice of care reveals that the interface of family and society is in the process of being recomposed.

Free Research Field

文化人類学