{"id":9607,"date":"2010-03-09T13:30:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T04:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/?p=9607"},"modified":"2020-03-14T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T03:03:44","slug":"fy2010iv-11yanagisawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/ipcr\/en\/fy2010iv-11yanagisawa\/","title":{"rendered":"IV-5.”Comparative Study of Rural Social Structure in Asia: Interplay between Community, State Authority and Development Policy”(H22 FY2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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.<\/p>\n
Rural societies in various parts of Asia, based on their \u2018proto types\u2019 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 \u2018peasant society\u2019 (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 \u2018job and entitlement distribution\u2019 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 \u2018open\u2019 and \u2018loosely structured\u2019 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 \u2018Comparative Rural Social Structures in wider Regions of Asia\u2019 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.<\/p>\n