表題番号：2024C-607
日付：2026/09/02
研究課題Thwarted Commemorations and the Politics of Status: Japan, International Politics, and the Global Age of Decline
| 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
- This project is ongoing, but I was unable to use the support as much as I had hoped during the 2024 academic year due to a health emergency with significant lasting consequences for my travel plans in particular. That said, during the 2024AY I was able to make significant progress on my "thwarted commemorations" project. My research trip to New York City, partly funded by my 特定課題 research support, was invaluable for checking and confirming some of my hypotheses about regional and transnational views of Japan, thanks in particular to meetings with colleagues at Columbia University. These were essential both for forcing me to embed my analysis, which rests on international considerations, in a clearer sense of the regional and global security dynamics facing Japan over the past decade.My publications on the topic deepened during the 2024-2025 academic year, with the appearance and reactions to my published paper on the Olympics, as well as the submission of my still-unpublished paper on the problems facing the state funeral of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. That should be published in late 2026 in Global Role of the Asia-Pacific in International Relations 2, edited by Kumiko Haba and Pradeep Chauhan (Springer), though apparent delays in the production process have made me reluctant to give a firm publication date.The timing of the grant helped in brainstorming and developing the final chapter of my book manuscript on thwarted commemorations: the surprising success of commemorations of the Diamond Princess quarantine. Heavily criticized at the time, narrative films, books, and articles several years later aimed to rehabilitate the quarantine, fitting it within a larger narrative of Japanese technological skill and humanistic intention driving its global contributions. This research plan helped me secure a fellowship from Cornell University's Society for the Humanities in 2025, and I presented my chapter draft on there in early 2026. So this project seeded the research for which I plan to complete my book manuscript in Fall 2027. I had hoped to use it to support several other grant applications I had planned, but which I had to miss due to my health problems; I was able, however, to meet the Cornell deadline, which was essential to my developing a more theoretically informed and intellectually robust manuscript than I would have crafted otherwise.