An Anthropological Study of Transitional Justice and Local Realities in Post-conflict Societies of East Asia

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H06736
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: KOH SUNGMAN 立命館大学, 衣笠総合研究機構, 研究員 (40755469)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 過去清算 / 戦後処理 / 済州4・3事件 / 沖縄戦 / 台湾2・28事件 / 移行期正義

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Based on examples of war and massacres in the island regions of East Asia in the mid-twentieth century, this study concerns the overcoming of the past for the purposes of relief measures, the pursuit of truth, and reconciliation leading towards a post-conflict society, and aims at the construction of a conflict study rooted in the deployment of experiential knowledge as created and demonstrated by local communities, and a comparative investigation thereof. As a result, in keeping with a criticism of Transitional Justice Theories that have been seen as useful in reckoning with “negative history” in a post-conflict society, the author will present the latent potentiality of local knowledge and its deployment by those who have lived through a conflict.

Free Research Field

文化人類学、歴史社会学、東アジア研究