Reflections on Being Involved with the Field: Responding for/to the Multiple Problems in the Planetary Society after 3.11(3)

Jazyk: japonština
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: 中央大学社会科学研究所年報. 20:15-32
ISSN: 1343-2125
Popis: application/pdf
This article evolved from a research project called “Responding for/to the Multiple Problems in the Planetary Society after 3.11” which is a part of the Laboretory for the Living Knowledge in the Planetary Society’s activities at the Institute of Social Sciences, Chuo University. The project is based on the idea that exploring, against the tide of the disposition to dissociate/disengage oneself from what is happening, “regions and communities for sustainable ways of being” is urgent and crucial for the 21st century planetary society, in which the multiple problems concerning exclusion and inclusion are increasingly frequent. Throughout the project, I have sought to clarify the ways in which “Nascent Community” is lived or embodied in so-called “liminal territories” or “composite corporeality,” in which the varieties of local residents try to coexist while conflicting, merging, and intertwining with one another. Under such objectives, I conducted research and interviews in certain areas, regarding the autonomy and independence of such localities, the global inter-cooperation among the communities, and the composite/complex/hybrid identities of the community residents, while employing such key concepts as “metamorphosis” and “liminality.” The article reflects on the epistemology developed from dialogue with Alberto Melucci, Anna Melucci, Alberto Merler, Andrea Vargiu and my research experience and submits a theoretical framework for conceiving and coping with the ongoing problems. In that, the article sets out a exploration for what might be called “Being Involved with the Field”.
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