ILCAA Joint Research Project

The Anthropological Study of Hope in the Asia-Pacific Region： Future Prospects through New Bodily Practices (jrp000299)

About the Project

Project term: April, 2024–March, 2027

In the twenty-first century, the world is full of dystopian helplessness and loss of hope. Under these circumstances, this research project will address the hope people can have and consider hope not only as a personal question but also as a large socio-cultural issue. We will also focus on hope as a prospect for living awakened in physical practices, in addition to people’s narrated future visions. The objective of this project is to establish an anthropology of hope and the body through the comparison of examples of hope as social and cultural phenomena currently in formation in the Asia-Pacific region.

Members

Coordinator

• Hiroki FUKAGAWA

ILCAA Staff

• Yukako YOSHIDA (Co-Coordinator)

Joint Researchers

• Ryuju SATOMI
• Kengo KONISHI
• Sae NAKAMURA
• Maho ISONO
• Caitlin Christine COKER

Outputs

Meetings

The 5th meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 19 Jul 2025 13:00–18:30
• Venue: 405
• Language: Japanese

• 13:00–13:20 Hiroki FUKAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University)

  Introduction

  13:20–14:20 Kengo KONISHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  Toward an Anthropology of En and Hope: exploring “revitalization” in the field

  14:20–15:20 All participants

  Q&A

  15:40–16:40 Sae NAKAMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo)

  Longing for “another time”: a thought on hope arising from the depth of despair

  16:40–17:40 All participants

  Q&A

  17:40–18:30

  Discussion/ Planning for the next meeting

The 4th meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 5 Jul 2025 14:00–18:00
• Venue: Hongo Satellite 3F Seminar Room
• Language: Japanese

• 14:00–14:10 Hiroki FUKAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University)

  Introduction

  14:10–15:40 Hirokazu MIYAZAKI (Northwestern University)

  “Hope in the Nuclear Age: Apocalypse, Memory, and Legacy After 80 Years”

  15:40–18:00 All participants

  Q&A, Discussion/Planning for the next meeting

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Tue 4 Mar 2024 13:00–18:00
• Venue: Hongo Satellite 3F Seminar Room
• Language: Japanese

• 13:00–13:10 Hiroki FUKAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University)

  Introduction

  13:10–14:10 Masakazu TANAKA (Professional Institute of International Fashion)

  “How Hopeful are Autoethnographical Texts? Inspired by Michel Foucault’s Ideas of Confession”

  14:10–15:10 All participants

  Q&A

  15:30–16:30 Takeshi MATSUSHIMA (Hirosima University)

  “Walter Benjamin and “Natural” Farming”

  16:30–17:30 All participants

  Q&A

  17:30–18:00

  Discussion/Planning for the next meeting

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 14 Dec 2024 13:00–18:00
• Venue: Hongo Satellite 4F Seminar Room
• Language: Japanese

• 13:00–13:10 Hiroki FUKAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University)

  Introduction

  13:10–14:10 Ryuju SATOMI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Waseda University)

  “Sinking Islands and Growing Rocks: An Anthropology of “Nature” and “Hope” in Contemporary Coral Reef Sciences”

  14:10–15:10 All participants

  Q&A

  15:30–16:30 Daisaku HASIZUME (Osaka Metropolitan University)

  “How to Make Hope Appear: The Elaboration of Melanesian Anthropology by Miyazaki Hirokazu (and Beyond)”

  16:30–17:30 All participants

  Q&A

  17:30–18:00

  Discussion/Planning for the next meeting

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 29 Jun 2024 13:00–18:00
• Venue: Hongo Satellite 4F Seminar Room
• Language: Japanese

• 13:00–13:20 Hiroki FUKAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University)

  Explanation of the purpose

  13:20–14:20 Hiroki FUKAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University)

  “The Method of Hope, the Romanticization of Hope, the Embodied Hope, and the Limits of Hope: A Preface to Anthropology of Hope”

  14:20–14:50 all members

  Q&A

  15:00–16:45 7 members

  Research Introduction and Future Prospects

  16:45–17:30

  General discussion

  17:30–18:00

  Future Policy

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