表題番号：2017S-206
日付：2018/02/27
研究課題National Narratives,Emotion,and the Construction of Grand Strategy in the Asia-Pacific
| 研究者所属（当時） | 資格 | 氏名 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| （代表者） | 国際学術院 大学院アジア太平洋研究科 | 教授 | レーニー デイビッド |
- 研究成果概要
- Having completed my newest book manuscript -- Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline (Cornell University Press, 2018) -- I turned my attention to the strategic promotion of political decisions and their relationship to broader national narratives. During the year, I focused primarily on extending the discussion of Japan's "Long Postwar" to consider the ways in which earlier moments in modern Japanese political history have entered and interacted with a narrative regarding what Japan has been, what it is today, and what it is supposed to become. While considering Taisho and early Showa political decisions as well, I focused especially on the Meiji Restoration and its subsequent memorialization in Japanese politics: a timely topic given the 150th anniversary of the Restoration in 2018. It is easy, of course, to consider the uses (and misuses) by politicians of historical facts, a topic of great importance in a variety of countries. My goal has been to move away from an overly instrumental assessment of politicians describing history to suit their own purposes. Instead, I aim to tease out a narrative logic of events, to consider how the same impulses that drive us to create stories in the first place make us do so when thinking about institutions as broad and complex as the modern nation.