ILCAA Joint Research Project

An Anthropological Study on Spatial Governance and Ethnic Relations: Focusing on Southeast Asia (jrp000286)

About the Project

Project term: April, 2023–March, 2026

This project aims to understand the relations between the people who have lived on the periphery/outside of the state governance (such as sea nomads, shifting cultivators, etc.) and other ethnic groups by focusing on their economic activities. Specifically, it centers on the comparison of relations in different economic systems: the subsistence economy, where goods are produced and consumed within a local community; the exchange economy/trading, where inter-group ties are established in ways that are not replaceable with others; the market economy, which has often been expanded with capitalism. On this basis, from the perspective of the people who have lived in places that are increasingly affected by spatial governance: seas, estuaries, coasts, and remote mountains, we examine their relations with other (ethnic) groups, such as national majorities.

Members

Coordinator

• Aya KAWAI

ILCAA Staff

• Ikuya TOKORO

Joint Researchers

• Yuki SUZUKI
• Kazuyo FUTAESAKU
• Masao IMAMURA
• Yumi KATO
• Ayane KIMURA
• Tadayuki KUBO
• Shinsuke NAKAI
• Makibi NAKANO
• Shu NIMONJIYA
• Takamasa OSAWA
• Kyoko SAKUMA
• Yosuke SANO
• Hisashi SHIMOJO
• Daisuke TERAUCHI

Outputs

Meetings

The 4th meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 6 Jul 2024 14:00–18:00– Sun 7 Jul 2024 10:00–13:10
• Venue: 302, Online meeting (7/6), Hongo Satellite 4F Seminar Room, Online meeting (7/7)
• Language: Japanese

• 6th Jul

  14:30 Aya KAWAI (ILCAA)

  Introduction

  14:40 Kyoko SAKUMA (Tohoku Gakuin University)

  “The connection between “hunters” and “farmers” for forest resources: what is exchanged with whom and how interact they are?From Fishing to Tourism?”

  15:15 Yosuke SANO (Waseda University)

  Comment, Q&A, Discussion

  16:00

  Break

  16:10 Aya KAWAI (ILCAA)

  “Between National Policy and Everyday Life: Resources, Land, and Ethinicity in Peninsular Malaysia”

  16:55 Yosuke SANO (Waseda University)

  Comment, Q&A, Discussion

  17:40

  Closing

  7th Jul

  10:00 Daisuke TERAUCI (Tsukuba University)

  “National Parks and Subsistence of Swiddenners”

  10:45 Hisashi SHIMOJO (Kobe University)

  Comment, Q&A, Discussion

  11:30

  Break

  11:35 Kazuki KUSUNOKI (Tokyo University)

  “Transformation of Livelihood and Intergroup Relations in the ASALs in East Africa”

  12:15 Hisashi SHIMOJO (Kobe University)

  Comment, Q&A, Discussion

  13:00 Aya KAWAI (ILCAA)

  Summary

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Mon 12 Feb 2024 9:30–12:30
• Venue: 304
• Language: Japanese

• 9:30 Takamasa OSAWA (Kanazawa University)

  “Indigensous people, Chinese and Muslims: The dynamism of ethnicity among the Suku Asli living on the eastern coast of Sumatra”.

  10:15 Q&A, Shinsuke NAKAI (Saga University)

  Comment, Discussion

  10:50

  Break

  11:00 Hisashi SHIMOJO (Kobe University)

  “Intangible Spaces “Straddling Territorial States”: The River Basin Societies and their Hybridity between Vietnam and Cambodia”

  11:45 Q&A, Shinsuke NAKAI (Saga University)

  Comment, Discussion

  12:20 Aya KAWAI (ILCAA)

  Summary

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sun 11 Feb 2024 14:30–17:30
• Venue: 304
• Language: Japanese

• 14:30 Aya KAWAI (ILCAA)

  Introduction

  14:40 Yuki SUZUKI (Kokushikan University)

  “From Fishing to Tourism?: The Transition of Ethnic Relations in the Livelihood of the Moken Sea People”

  15:25 Yumi KATO (Fukui Prefectural University)

  Comment, Q&A, Discussion

  16:00

  Break

  16:10 Mabiki NAKANO (Toyo University)

  “Livelihood, trade, and economy of marine products in Bannai Islands”

  16:55 Yumi KATO (Fukui Prefectural University)

  Comment, Q&A, Discussion

  Mabiki NAKANO (Toyo University)

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sun 18 Jun 2023 14:00–18:00
• Venue: Hongo Satellite 8F, Online meeting
• Language: Japanese

• 13:30–13:45 Aya KAWAI (ILCAA)

  Introduction of the joint research project

  13:45–15:00

  Self-introductions of joint researchers (Sea areas, island areas, river-mouth deltas)

  15:00–15:30

  Discussion (Sea areas, island areas, river-mouth deltas)

  15:30–15:40

  Break

  15:40–17:10

  Self-introductions of joint researchers (Inlands, mountainous areas, forest areas)

  17:10–17:30

  Discussion (Inlands, mountainous areas, forest areas)

  17:30–18:00

  Discussion (The next steps of the project)

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