Environmental Infrastructures: Comparative Ethnographic Study on Nature, Technology and Environmental Change

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24251017
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology/Folklore
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Morita Atsuro 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 准教授 (20436596)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KIMURA Shuhei 筑波大学, 人文社会科学研究科(系), 助教 (10512246) ; NAKAGAWA Osamu 立教大学, 異文化コミュニケーション学部, 准教授 (30402986) ; OMURA Keiichi 大阪大学, 言語文化研究科(研究院), 准教授 (40261250) ; MATSUMURA Keiichiro 岡山大学, 社会文化科学研究科, 准教授 (40402747) ; Ishii Miho 京都大学, 人文科学研究所, 准教授 (40432059)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: インフラストラクチャー / 環境 / 開発 / 人類学 / 科学技術論 / multispecies ethnography / 存在論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The project aims at exploring complex interfaces between infrastructure and environment in proliferating international attempts to achieve sustainable management of global environmental changes. The range of our empirical studies varies from water management projects in Thailand, to waste treatment in Phnom Penh, the construction of an indigenous knowledge database in India, and the reconstruction of the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. The project focuses on interactions between local environment and communities and a variety infrastructures, from information infrastructures, such as dikes and petrochemical complexes, to information infrastructure, such as databases and simulation models. The outcomes of the project have been published in an edited volume, three special issues of international journals and a number of articles and presentations.

Free Research Field

科学技術の人類学