An Anthropological Study on the Tunisian Revolution and its Problems

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370959
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: J. F. Oberlin University
• Principal Investigator: TAKAKI Keiko 桜美林大学, 人文学系, 教授 (60211330)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: チュニジア革命 / 民主化 / 文化人類学 / プロセスドキュメンテーション / 聞き取り調査 / 市民社会 / 女性の活躍 / 社会運動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I published a book entitled "The Tunisian Revolution and Democratization: An Anthropological Process Documentation" from Akashi-Shoten in 2016 as a product of this research project.
In this book, I started considering the background and some socio-political and economic factors of the revolution, and traced the whole processes of the Revolution till the fall of Ben Ali regime and the democratic transitional period until the establishment of the new government, with a method of process documentation which is usually applied in the development studies. One of the originalfeautures of this work is that the processes are documented chronologically with the real voices of various Tunisian citizens interviewed by the author herself and presented in multi-vocal, multi-topographical and multi-sided ways. The documented data are also multi- dimensionally analyzed and considered. This is also the first academic book on the Tunisian Revolution in Japanese language.

Free Research Field

文化人類学