特殊研究演習「グローバル関係論」

海外から来ている学生との共同実習の場。学融合プログラム「グローバル・スタディーズ」の必修科目「グローバル教養実践演習II」、およびJEA「国際社会分析特殊演習I」との合併科目でもある。

海外から東京大学に来ている多様なバックグラウンドを持つ学生たちとともに学び、活動の場を共有することを通して国際的な視野を身につけ、多言語・多文化的状況下での実践力を養うことを目指す。

「日本と太平洋と島々」をテーマとし、日本と太平洋という海洋空間、およびそこにおける島々を結びつける様々な歴史的事象とその今日への遺産について多角的にアプローチする。最初の4～5回は講義とディスカッションが中心（＊受講者数に応じてゼミ形式もあり得る）となるが、その後はグループに分け、TAの補助の下に学生同士のプロジェクトベースのグループワークを中心に進める。グループワークにはグループの研究テーマに基づく、東京（近郊）におけるフィールドワークも含む場合がある。またグループワークの最終報告会を、授業最終日に行う。

This course aims to create a space for students from diverse backgrounds to work together to discover and explore the unique historical connections between Japan, the Pacific Ocean and the myriad islands within it. Modern and contemporary Japan has been shaped by a series of cataclysmic events in and across the Pacific, such as the arrival of the Black Ships, the explosion of nuclear weapons, the attack of Godzilla (!) and the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011. It has also been shaped by a series of trans-Pacific practices initiated by the Japanese, ranging from emigration and colonial settlement across the islands and edges of this basin, the military occupation of the 'South Seas' (Nan'yō) and the Asia-Pacific War, to the post-war creation of regional forums such as PECC, which preceded today's APEC, and leisure tourism. As a result, the Pacific Ocean is deeply inscribed in the identities of the people who inhabit the northwestern archipelagos on which we stand.

This course examines these multiple historical entanglements between Japan and the sea, while focusing on what legacies they have left for the land and people here. What material and psychological connections did Japanese migrants across the Pacific make between their homelands and the countries they settled in, and what are the legacies of these connections today? What memories have we inherited of the central Pacific islands administered by Japan before and during the war? How have people in Japan confronted the earthquake and tsunami or tried to live with it? How and to what extent has March 2011 changed this sense of coexistence? More generally, how have people here imagined and represented the Pacific and the islands? How has this representation evolved and changed? Students can approach these and many other questions from a variety of perspectives, for example by examining relevant monuments, films, paintings and drawings, narratives and textbooks, by investigating the relevant infrastructure that contributes to disaster prevention, by exploring minority communities in Tokyo, or by conducting interviews, etc. (*of course, all within the limits of the high risks of Covid-19).

The course will be a combination of classroom activities (i.e. lectures/seminars and discussion) and student-initiated project-based group work, with more emphasis on the latter. Teaching assistants will provide advice and support for the group projects. All groups will participate in a final presentation at the end of the semester, which will take place in the KOMCEE West Lecture Hall and will be open to the public.