2021 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Encounters between Humans and Stray Cats in the Urban Environment: An Anthropological Study of Relationality through Touch
Project/Area Number |
19J20515
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Research Institution | Osaka University |
Principal Investigator |
ホワイト ケアラ シュエテナケット 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 特別研究員(DC1)
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Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-25 – 2022-03-31
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Keywords | multispecies ethnography / multimodal methodologies / outdoor cats / community cats / human-animal studies |
Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This fiscal year, which was extended for six months due to COVID-19 restrictions during the majority of the course of this fellowship, was the final period of this fellowship, and I was able to accomplish a great deal of final research for this project. In addition to continuing the efforts I made online to gather information and interact with individuals and groups working with outdoor cats and TNR operations, I was also able to continue my in-person fieldwork. I met with individuals and groups to discuss their continuing efforts with TNR. I was able to observe and participate with events before, during, and after TNR operations, and I was able to conduct more in-depth interviews. As part of my multimodal multispecies methodological endeavors, I not only recorded useful ethnographic encounters, but I experimented with editing software and rendering different modalities. While my goal was to experiment with new methodologies in order to capture nonhuman participants in multispecies ethnography, I have also been able to further efforts into multimodal methodologies relevant to other areas in anthropology. In addition, I presented my research during three different international conferences, where I received valuable feedback concerning my methodological experiments and research results, which I am using to write articles for publication and to finish my dissertation, which is based on this research project.
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Research Progress Status |
令和3年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。
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Strategy for Future Research Activity |
令和3年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。
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Research Products
(3 results)