2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Multiculturalism and Social Justice
| Project/Area Number |
19330120
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan University |
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Principal Investigator |
DUMOUCHEL Paul Ritsumeikan University, 先端総合学術研究科, 教授 (80388107)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
JERRY Eades 立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋研究科, 教授 (80232106)
GOTO Reiko 立命館大学, 大学院・先端総合学術研究科, 教授 (70272771)
NISHIKAWA Nagao 立命館大学, 大学院・先端総合学術研究科, 講師 (00066622)
TOMINAGA Shigeki 京都大学, 人間科学研究科(研究院), 教授 (30145213)
HATANO Terumi (リリアン テルミ) 甲南女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (10340910)
OHSAWA Masachi 京都大学, 人間環境学研究科, 教授 (30194129)
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| Research Collaborator |
NOAH Mccormack 京都産業大学, 国際関係学科, 准教授
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2010
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| Keywords | 多文化主義 / 社会的正義 / 個人権利 / 集団権利 / 政治 / 文化 / 公平性 / 移民 |
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| Research Abstract |
Social justice is the question of the fair distribution of wealth and resources, multiculturalism the claim that this distribution cannot be fair if it fails to consider cultural, ethnic, linguistic and other group differences. Our research was mainly reality driven rather than theoretically determined and our results reflect changes in reality between its beginning and end. These changes proceeded from the quickening of globalization and growing political importance of terrorism. In consequence of which discourses on multiculturalism have often been replaced by issues of national security which are then invoked to reject claims based on group differences. Simultaneously discourses on social justice have been profoundly reorganized in response to globalization. We assist to the universal growth of inequality while claims of social justice are rejected in the name of a more difficult international environment. Our main result is that questions of social justice and multiculturalism can no longer be addressed within each society individually and are now inseparable from issues of social and political international justice.
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