A Comparative Study on the Formation Process of Post-"Selection and Concentration" Type Town Development under the Discourse of Regional Extinction

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K04132
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: The University of Tokushima
• Principal Investigator: YABE Takuya 徳島大学, 大学院社会産業理工学研究部(社会総合科学域), 教授 (20363129)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: まちづくり / 縮小社会 / ソーシャルイノベーション / 地方都市 / インバウンド / サイクルツーリズム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The initially envisioned "conservative and centralized current" of Japanese-style neoliberalism, due to its normative character, ceased its activities all together from the shift to a "new way of life" that avoided the three densities as a corona measure. Similarly, activities related to the conservatism regime were also suspended. As a result, activities that were not based on authority and located in the liberal regime became an important factor in the post-corona disaster town planning, and they were moving vigorously. Inbound tourism town planning, for example, seems to be making a rapid comeback, and social innovation-type industrial town planning activities, contrary to initial expectations, are moving autonomously and not converging with government-led, Japanese-style neoliberal activities.

Free Research Field

社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

研究途中からコロナ禍にみまわれ、本研究対象であるまちづくり活動の大半が活動を休止した。そのため、本研究の目的を一部変更し、このようなコロナ禍においても活動を継続している、いち早く活動を再開するまちづくり活動の参与観察とし、ポスト・コロナ時代のまちづくりの行方を探索する研究を行っている点は同時代のまちづくり活動記録として学術的意義、社会的意義があると考えられる。