Reeducation Revisited: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives on the Post-World War II Period in the US, Japan, and Germany

重温再教育：二战后美国、日本和德国的跨国和比较视角

• 批准号: 407542657
• 负责人: Dr. Katharina Gerund
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/407542657?language=en
• 关键词: Reeducation; Revisited; Transnational; Comparative; Perspectives

This interdisciplinary project examines US-American reeducation politics in its various aspects in Germany and Japan after World War II in a transnational and comparative perspective taking into account entanglements in the cultural imaginary, the mass media, and civil society at large. It seeks to identify the multidirectional influences, ramifications, and interdependencies between the US and Japan, the US and Germany as well as Japan and Germany which work in each of those domestic as well as a foreign setting as part of foundational discourse of legitimation. For instance, the positive self-representation of the US as a democratic exemplum to Japanese and German audiences points to attempts to mitigate social tensions and conflicts ‘at home’. Individual projects address gender regimes (in reeducation and Hollywood films as well as in Japanese women’s magazines), discourses on race (in cultural representations of and by African American soldiers and in Japanese-Okinawan identity constructions) and public opinion (broadcasting and public opinion research in Japan and Germany); instead of looking primarily at national developments, the aim is to study transnational relations, intra-cultural differences and subnational formations. The main focus is on the construction of imagined communities as well as on the ways in which reeducation efforts unfold in specific contexts characterized by asymmetrical power relations. Ultimately, this project seeks to establish “comparative reeducation studies” as an interdisciplinary field of study.

这个跨学科的项目探讨了美国的再教育政治在其各个方面在德国和日本在第二次世界大战后，在跨国和比较的角度考虑到在文化想象，大众媒体和民间社会的纠缠。它试图确定美国和日本、美国和德国以及日本和德国之间的多方向影响、分支和相互依赖关系，这些影响、分支和相互依赖关系在这些国内和国外环境中发挥作用，作为合法性基础话语的一部分。例如，美国在日本和德国观众面前积极地自我表现为民主典范，这表明美国试图缓解“国内”的社会紧张局势和冲突。个别项目涉及性别制度（在再教育和好莱坞电影以及日本妇女杂志中），（在非裔美国士兵的文化表现和日本冲绳人的身份建构中）和公众舆论（日本和德国的广播和舆论研究）;其目的不是主要研究国家发展，而是研究跨国关系、文化内部差异和国家以下各级的构成。主要关注的是想象中的社区的建设，以及在不对称的权力关系为特征的特定背景下开展再教育工作的方式。最终，该项目寻求将“比较再教育研究”确立为一个跨学科的研究领域。