Plastic Japan: The Social Life of Plastics from Consumption to Disposal in Contemporary Japan

1)对1879年至1999年出版的《朝日新闻》报纸文章进行了档案检索。使用朝日新闻Kikuzo II视觉，提取关键字为“塑料”的文章。在这些文章中，对涉及家庭和妇女的275篇文章进行了分析。研究结果于2022年3月举行的亚洲研究协会年会及2022年4月举行的悉尼大学人类学系系列研讨会上发表。研究结果与政府和地区塑料垃圾分类政策进行了分析，并在2021年澳大利亚国立大学日本研究系列研讨会和2020年东京大学身份研讨会系列上进行了展示。3）基于启动研究该补助金，与新加坡研究人员合作设计了一个新的国际跨学科研究项目，并于2022年2月启动。这项合作研究考察并比较了2022年至2025年新加坡、澳大利亚和日本家庭塑料废物的性别动态。4）基于这项资助启动的研究，与马来西亚研究人员合作设计了一个新的国际跨学科研究项目，并于2022年3月启动。这项合作研究探讨了外国塑料废物对马来西亚雪兰莪州土著人民的性别影响。

1）Archival search was conducted over the Asahi Shimbun newspaper articles published from 1879 to 1999. Using the Asahi Shimbun Kikuzo II visual, the articles with the keywords "plastic" were extracted. Out of these articles, an analysis was conducted on over 275 articles which referred to households and women. The findings were presented at the Annual Conference for the Association for Asian Studies in March 2022, and at the University of Sydney Department of Anthropology Seminar Series in April 2022.2) Fieldwork was conducted both online and in-person at Kamikatsu village. The result was analysed in relation to the government and regional plastic waste sorting policies, and it was presented at the Australian National University Japan Studies Seminar Series in 2021 and the Tokyo College Identity Seminar Series in 2020.3) Based on the start-up research enabled by this grant, a new international interdisciplinary research project was designed in collaboration with Singaporean researchers and it took off in February 2022. This collaborative research examines and compares the gender dynamics of household plastic waste in Singapore, Australia and Japan from 2022 to 2025.4) Based on the start-up research enabled by this grant, a new international interdisciplinary research project was designed in collaboration with Malaysian researchers and it took off in March 2022. This collaborative research examines the gendered impacts of foreign plastic waste among indigenous peoples in Selangor, Malaysia.