カリフォルニア大学バークレー校Center for Japanese Studiesのセミナーを共催しました
2021年4月1日（日本時間では４月２日）にカリフォルニア大学バークレー校Center forJapanese Studiesで開催されたセミナーを共催いたしました。当センター研究員の湖中真哉が講師を務め、フィールドワークの方法論に新しい境地を拓くグローバルな当事者間のニーズ共有接近法について解説いたしました。聴衆からはオンラインの機能を使った多くの質問を受け、熱心なやり取りがなされました。
セミナーのテーマ：Decolonizing Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodsthrough Collaborations between Local Residents and College Students: The“e-Satoyama (sustainable landscape) Project” in Kenya and Japan with anEmphasis on the Concept of Global Tojisha
セミナー講師：湖中真哉 静岡県立大学教授 グローバル・スタディーズ研究センター研究員
司会：羽生淳子 カリフォルニア大学バークレー校教授 Center for JapaneseStudiesセンター長
セミナーの要旨：The tradition of ethnography originating inthe West has been decolonized through the last hundred years. From the end ofthe last century to the beginning of this century, the asymmetrical dichotomybetween investigator and informant, human and nature, subject and object, donorand recipient has been questioned more radically from the perspectives ofpostcolonial studies, ontology, and Anthropocene-related sciences. Thispresentation explores the possibilities of connecting arguments on criticalethnography in the West to the two Japanese concepts of tojisha [the partiesconcerned] and satoyama [a border zone between mountain foothills and villages],with a focus on two cases of ethnographic education: the first case in ShizuokaPrefecture in Japan, and the second case in Narok County in Kenya. Theseproject cases illustrate how these projects, as a “hybrid agency” of bothcultures, urged participants to act and inspired Japanese undergraduatestudents who were initially less motivated. A project-centered ethnographicapproach does not presuppose a description of the “different culture” but seekscommon solutions to global issues, leading to the gradual dissolution of theasymmetrical dichotomy that exists in both education and ethnography.
