表題番号：2022C-260
日付：2024/04/15
研究課題Cultures of Pandemic Status: Narrative, Power, and Global Politics
| 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 |
| （連携研究者） | Back in United States | Former research assistant | Kuwana Kiyomasa |
- 研究成果概要
- This project builds from the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, examining two aspects of its politics. It emphasizes two elements of Japan's response, and has resulted in two papers -- one currently being drafted with Kuwana Kiyomasa on the local politics of COVID in Japan, and the other a paper for a special issue on the Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies focused on opening ceremonies in the recent Asian Olympics.The coauthored paper with Mr. Kuwana examines the local politics of COVID-19 in comparative and longitudinal perspective. It examines how Japanese localities avoided competition with one another over COVID successes and failures and the prioritization of tensions between regions, especially led by activist governors, and the central government, before pivoting to the emotional resonances, including "hope" embodied in the outcomes of the COVID pandemic in Japan.The solo-authored paper is part of a special issue, edited by David Leheny, for the Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies examining the politics of the opening ceremonies of recent Olympic Games in East Asia. Recognizing the tendency to conceive of the opening ceremonies as singular national narratives, the paper examines the tensions surrounding the 2020 Tokyo Games, including the ways in which the government and citizens debated the merits of the Games as well as their meaning.