Joint Research (Type IV）
Comparative Study of Rural Social Structure in Asia: Interplay between
Community, State Authority and Development Policy
Project Leader: YANAGISAWA, Masayuki, Center for Integrated Area Studies,
Kyoto University
（Term：2010 - 2011）
- Outline of Joint Research
- The salient features of rural social structures in various parts of Asia,
including East Asia (Japan, Korea and China), Southeast Asia (the Philippines,
Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand), South Asia (north and south India)
and Central Asia (Uzbekistan) will be clarified from a comparative perspective,
with their historical formation processes duly considered. In particular,
special attention will be paid to some particular rural development projects
and/or programs in each region. Through research we will find region-specific
features of rural social structure in Asia and their recent transformations.
- Purpose of Joint Research
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- Rural societies in various parts of Asia, based on their ‘proto types’
formulated through their long historical process, have recently experienced
a large transformation through rapid economic development, urbanization
and the progress of aging, and so forth. In East Asia, the proto type of
‘peasant society’ (tight community formed by peasants) established in the
pre-modern era, brought about hardworking habits among people and affected
even the organizational structure of modern non-agricultural enterprises,
and thus had a decisive power in determining identical historical development
paths different from Western countries. In South Asia, the question of
how the proto type of ‘job and entitlement distribution’ in rural society
based on castes is transforming, and is now being paid much closer attention
amidst rapid economic development and urbanization. In Southeast Asia ‘open’
and ‘loosely structured’ rural societies were formed in small population
situations, and are now slowly changing under decentralization policies
and rural development policies in the midst of economic development and
urbanization. We have a rather big ambition to establish an academic field
of ‘Comparative Rural Social Structures in wider Regions of Asia’ through
this research project, and after two years we plan to publish our research
results as a book or a special issue in some international academic journal.
- Seminars in Fiscal 2010
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- International Seminar on Rural Social Structure in Vietnam at Hanoi
- This is an announcement of an International Seminar on "Structure
and Dynamics of Village Community in Vietnam" at Hanoi in the coming
January 2011, jointly organized by Hanoi Agricultural University, Collaborative
Research on 'Comparative Study on Rural Social Structure in Asia' in the
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University (Leader: Dr. Masayuki
Yanagisawa, Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University), and
the Initiative 1 of Kyoto University G-COE Program 'In Search of Sustainable
Humanosphere in Asia and Africa'.
- Date & Time：January 6th (Thurs.), 2011
- Place： Hanoi Paradise Hotel (Hanoi City, Vietnam)
- Program：
9:30-10:10
- Koichi Fujita (Kyoto University), “Rural Social Structure in Asia in Comparative
Perspective”
10:10-10:40 Discussions
10:40-11:40
- Yoshihiro Sakane (Hiroshima University), “Family and Kinship System in
Vietnam”
11:40-12:10 Discussions
12:10-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30
- Takashi Okae (Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Fisheries, Japan),
- “Discussing Vietnamese Village Based on Yumio Sakurai’s Book ‘The Formation
of Vietnamese Village' and others”
14:30-15:30 Discussions
15:30-16:00 Business Meeting
Other participants:
- Masato Hiwatari (Hokkaido University),
- Kei Kajisa (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies),
- Satoru Kobayashi (Kyoto University),
- Akihiko Ohno (Aoyama Gakuin University),
- Sumiaki Iwamoto (Tokyo Agricultural University),
- Tamae Sugihara (Tokyo Agricultural University), and Huu Khanh and other
participants from Hanoi Agricultural University.
- Contact：Koichi Fujita （CSEAS)
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