| Record of activities in 2020 at KURCPI |
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Research Seminar No.206, 7 December 2020
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building, 5th Floor
「Discovery of Indigenous Environmental Education in Amami」
OGURI Yuko
(Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities, Kagoshima University)
The purpose of this presentation is to show the overview of the environmental education study that the presenter is now working at Amami Oshima. The study trend of the environmental education during these approximately 60 years, expanded the subject of the study interest to 1) the transformation of the one’s behavior, 2) a modification of the social structure, and to 3) the ontology of the human being. In recent years study trend for acquisition of the different view of the world among human and nature relationships is developing under the name of “indigenous environmental education”. The studies aim to change the recognition of human control over nature and considering nature as the source of the wealth.
The presenter aims to identify the “indigenous environmental education” in context of Japan that originally was advocated by western society. Specifically, the presenter attempts to clarify both the knowledge system and the way of knowing that come from land of Amami Oshima where traditional culture still remains in density in each community.
In the presentation, the presenter first briefly introduces the above-mentioned study trend, and then, examines the contents of “100 interviews on the environmental culture of Amami” that she worked on in 2019. By discussing the influences of life experience with nature to one’s recognition, the presenter will address the possibilities of indigenous environmental education in Amami.
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Research Seminar No.205, 16 November 2020
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building, 5th Floor
「An Introduction to the Activities of the 3710 Lab That Connects People and the Sea through Learning」
KANNO Kouta
(Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities, Kagoshima University／3710Lab)
TAGUCHI Kodai
(Center for Ocean Literacy and Education, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo／3710Lab)
Kanno and Taguchi were high school classmates at Sendai―the high school in a neighborhood called Kawauchi in Sendai. Later, Kanno and Taguchi aspired to study biology and educational philosophy, respectively. In addition to biological research, Kanno studied science communication (SC), an activity that conveys science to non-specialists, as a minor. After that, Kanno has continued to work on several original SC projects.
Taguchi became involved in marine education as a philosopher of education, and started a project called 3710Lab, which is introduced here. In the last few years, he has been working with high school students in Miyagi Prefecture and on the islands of Kyushu. He has conducted workshops to rediscover local culture, and a result of these workshop for classes at Yoron High School in Kagoshima Prefecture has been published as a book, The Days of Yoron.
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Research Seminar No.204, 19 October 2020
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building, 5th Floor
「Issues and Producers’ Behavior on Tankan Marketing in Amami Oshima」
LEE Jaehyeon
(Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University)
This is a case study of producers and shippers relating to production and sale of Tankan as fruit in Amami Oshima. A survey was carried out with the goal of revealing the features of producers’ behavior seen on the Tankan marketing and the difference of market performance in each shipper. The results of this study can be summarized as follows. Firstly, the wholesale market does not play a role of raising the level of quality and maintaining stable price due to loose marketing standard requirements and limited purchasers. Secondly, the large-scale farms tend to be reluctant to joint sales of the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA) because they have their own channels for sale. Thirdly, nevertheless the JA have been improving quality, securing sales channels, and increasing added value, but the joint sales of the JA still have decisive problems such as less and unstable volume of products under producers’ opportunistic behavior.
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Research Seminar No.203, 28 September 2020
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building, 5th Floor
「Ecology and Evolution of Flowers in the Intra- and Inter- Specific Context」
WATANABE Shuntaro
(Faculty of Science, Kagoshima University)
Flowers are the most diverse structures produced by angiosperms, and floral traits provide some of the most compelling examples of evolution by natural selection. However, to elucidate how these diversity maintains trough natural selection is still an challenging issue because natural selection often act as a limiting mechanism for genetic diversity. Recent ecological theory suggests that frequency-dependent selection, which is an evolutionary process by which the fitness of a phenotype or genotype depends on the phenotype or genotype composition of a given population, is an important mechanism that determines the maintenance and loss of biodiversity such as maintenance of sex or interspecific competitive exclusion. In this seminar, I will discuss how evolution can contribute to the maintenance of floral diversity from the perspective of intra- and inter-species interactions.
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Research Seminar No.202, 10 November 2020
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building, 5th Floor
「Buckwheat Production and Sixth Sector Industrialization in Islands Areas」
SAKAI Norio
(Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University)
Buckwheat grows quickly even on barren soil, does not require much labor, and can be stored for a relatively long time. Therefore, it was once cultivated mainly in mountainous areas in Japan. It was also widely cultivated in Kagoshima Prefecture. After that, buckwheat production declined, but it stopped declining in the 1970s. From around 2000, the buckwheat area increased sharply, mainly in cold regions such as Hokkaido, Tohoku and Hokuriku.
Buckwheat is also produced in island areas where natural conditions and transportation are disadvantaged. This is because the production and distribution of buckwheat reduces the disadvantages of the islands. Under the condition that expansion of cultivation area is restricted, buckwheat is processed and sold (sixth sector industrialization) in some islands.
First, I describe the situation of production and distribution of buckwheat in Japan. Next, I examine the actual conditions and characteristics of buckwheat production, processing, and sales in Tsushima, Tanegashima, Miyakojima, and Ogimi Village, which are buckwheat production areas.
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Research Seminar No.201, 27 January 2020
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building, 5th Floor
「Island Research and Border Studies」
IWASHITA Akihiro
(Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University／International Center for Island Studies, Kagoshima University)
Border Studies shares with Political Geography a question of how to analyze space. Island Research is a field that examines the space of islands, defining this space through concepts like “maritime”, “liminality”, and “insularity”. These concepts understand islands as ‘singular’ spaces, but this is often questionable. For example, the Northern Territories are often glossed as four islands, but one of these, Habomai, is in reality a series of islets, rather than a single island. Tsushima, too, is often treated as a unitary space, although this seems unjustified given the historical division between Kami-Tsushima and Izuhara.
From this critical perspective, Border Studies is able to deconstruct and reconstruct Island Research. In this paper, I would like to deploy the three border studies tools of ‘timeline’, ‘permeability’, and ‘social structure’ in order to reconsider the issue of island spatiality.
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