The Dynamics of Processes of Social Change in Southeast Asia : Inter-Ethnic Relationship, Mobility, and Cultural Reconfiguration.

在为期三年的项目期间，七名日本成员和两名海外参与者参与了以各自实地为中心的实地研究。此外，成员们能够在时间和空间上扩展他们的研究，包括马来西亚，印度尼西亚，菲律宾，泰国，缅甸和老挝，以及在美国进行图书馆研究通过这项研究，我们能够对种族间关系和流动性的历史进程以及宗教动态和文化重构进行基础研究。通过扩展我们的时间和空间的角度来看，我们已经能够包括比较的角度。在过去的30年里，由于资本、人口、文化的全球流动性，世界发生了急剧的变化，在这种背景下，单纯从民族国家的角度来进行工作已经不可能了。考虑到这一点，我们用族裔间关系、流动性和文化重组等关键概念来审视国家边界，以便更好地了解一个多族裔和多宗教区域的变化进程。通过这样做，我们能够重新定位我们自己以前对当地问题的理解，以更大的系统理解社会，政治和经济变化。通过思想的相互交流，我们每个人都能够描绘民族国家建设中的族际关系，并进一步认识和描绘，由于宗教和全球化经济的引入等因素，这种动态无法在单一的民族国家框架内理解。

During the three-year project period, seven Japanese members and two overseas participants were involved in field-based research, centered on their respective field sites. In addition, members were able to extend their research both in time and space, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Myanmar and Laos, as well as conducting library research in the U.S. Through this research, we were able to conduct basic research on the historical processes of inter-ethnic relationship and mobility as well as religious dynamics and cultural reconfiguration. By extending our temporal and spatial perspectives, we have been able to include comparative perspectives. At the end of each fiscal year, we met to check on our framework and orientation.Against the background of the rapid changes in the past three decades, which have been caused by the global fluidity of capital, people, and culture, it is no longer possible to work solely from the perspective of a nation state. With this in mind, we have looked across national boundaries with the key concepts of inter-ethnic relationship, mobility and cultural reconfiguration, so as to better understand the processes of change in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious region. By so doing we have been able to re-position each our own previously held understanding of local issues, to a larger systematic understanding of social, political and economic changes. By mutual interchange of ideas, each of us was able to depict the inter-ethnic relationship in the construction of nation state, and further realize and depict that by factors such as religion and introduction of globalized economy, such dynamics cannot be understood within a singular nation state framework.