Joint Research (Type I）
Glocal Society: Collaborating and Building Bridges between the Insular
Regions of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands
Project Leader: YAMAMOTO, Sota, Research Center for the Pacific Islands,
Kagoshima University
（Term：2010- 2011）
- Joint Seminars in 2010-2011 Fiscal Year
- Outline of Joint Research
- The insular regions of Southeast Asia and Oceania have a common cultural
background and now face a common crisis: the collapse of traditional society
and subsistence activities under globalization and climate change. There
are, however, few studies surveying or comparing the two regions. This
collaborative research aims to bring together the accumulation of Area
Studies from different disciplines in the insular regions of Southeast
Asia and Oceania, to discover common problems at present in the two regions,
and to create networks of researchers among these regions. Indonesia and
Micronesia, which are neighboring regions in this area, will be the sites
of an initial subsistence survey.
- Purpose of Joint Research
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The people in Oceania are known to have moved from Taiwan or the insular
region in Southeast Asia several times more than 3000 years ago. Therefore,
the insular regions of Southeast Asia and Oceania have a common cultural
background. Confinedto tropi-cal islands but with a variety of ecologies
the people have devel-oped distinctive subsistence economics from their
common base. Moreover, the two regions now face the common crisis of the
col-lapse of traditional society and subsistence activities under global-ization
and climate change. There are, however, few studies that survey or compare
the two regions.
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Indonesia and Micronesia, which are neighboring regions in this area, will
be the springboard for this comparative survey. While stay-ing at the Jakarta
Residence of Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University,
joint research between Indonesian and Japanese or Japan-based researchers
will be promoted, and a fieldsurvey will also be conducted from there.
Symposiums or Workshops will be held to collate the accumulation of Area
Studies in the in-sular regions of Southeast Asia (CSEAS) and Oceania (Center
for the PacificIslands, Kagoshima University), to bring together con-tributions
from different disciplines, to identify common problems at present in the
two regions, and to create networks of researchers among these regions.
Area Studies in Southeast Asia led mainly by CSEAS will be enriched by
taking in Area Studies in Oceania.
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