KOBAYASHI Satoru
kobasa cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Research Departments・Position
Cross-regional Studies・Professor
Area
Area Studies、Anthropology
Research Interests / Keywords
・Topology of religious places of worship in Southeast Asia
・Creation of public sphere in post-conflict societies
・Role of diversity in resilience of livelihoods and life
Overview
Topology of religious places of worship in Southeast Asia |
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For going beyond the conventional typology of Southeast Asian religion, which applies the division between world religion such as Buddhism and local religious culture includes animistic elements, this study investigate religous places of worship in the region by paying attentions to people’s practice obserbable at those sites for the purpose of presenting the new framework for describing local religious culture in Southeast Asia. |
Creation of public sphere in post-conflict societies |
This aims to re-examine the universal concepts of social scienice such as democracy and publicness by exploring the dynamism of creation/expansion of public sphere in post-conflict societies such as Cambodia. It expecially pays attention to the process how the people think and move into action for benefits of the one who do not know names includes subsequent generation. Cambodia is the main area of study, but it will make comparision with the situationin East Timor and Myanmar. |
Role of diversity in resilience of livelihoods and life |
This is to investigate the significance of diversity in human lives. With the special attentions to the function and role of diversity in livelihoods of rural polulation in Southeast Asia, it would illustrate the actual process of social changes in the era of moderninzation and globalization, which would show a kind of decline of diversity based on a locality. Moreover, it will try to cultivate a philosophical argument on the desirable future development paths for rural communities in the region through dialoges with local villagers, development practicioners, government agencys and academiscs in diverse disciplines. |
Research funds
Type | Theme | Period |
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Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) | The Comparative Anatomy for Political Transition in Southeast Asia: Exploring Interactions between Local Traditions and Globalism | 2019 – 2022 |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) | 21世紀のウォーター・フロンティア:ベトナム南部メコンデルタの多民族社会 | 2017 – 2020 |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) | Toward a New Paradigm of Studies on Religions of Mainland Southeast Asia | 2016 – 2019 |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research | A Challenge for the Development of Resaerch Resource sharing in a Globalizing World through Exploring the Underlying Utilization Method of Aerial Photos | 2016 – 2017 |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) | Exploring Sustainable Humanosphere in Rural Cambodia through Interdisciplinary Research on Changing Connectivity and Livelihoods | 2015 – 2017 |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) | Dynamics of Practices among Theravadins in Mainland Southeast Asia from an Analysis of Mapping Complexities of Religion and Society | 2014 – 2017 |