Study on the Changing Nature of Sovereignty in the Globalizing Economy and Realization of the Public Interests in Reproducing the Labor Power in Japan

本研究项目旨在从后现代和批判法理的视角，重新审视战后在日本当代劳动环境背景下对照顾家属基本问题的忽视。在伴随全球化而来的“就业女性化”和“普遍商品化”下，日本的公共政策如何；哪一种模式正在从家庭模式转变为以个人为基本社会单位的模式，改变了照顾被依赖者的角色和我们与他人的各种联系的性质，即人类相互依赖本身？通过分析最近关于日本护理工作和日本家庭/亲密关系问题的研究和论文，作者对日本社会法律生活中三种多方面且相互关联的关注点进行了细致入微的解读：公共和私人，独立和依赖，以及生成和自尊。她挑战了启蒙运动中由自给自足的个体行使权利的观念，探索了个体作为同时生活在三种不同关系中的实体的理解：与自己的关系，与家庭（或与一个人的情感对象）的关系，以及与社会的关系。最后，她认为，构建正义原则和“关系”和/或“主体间”权利和责任框架，更认真地认为依赖是人们在其生命的某些阶段的正常和相当必要的条件，可能有重大的潜力帮助（甚至是移民女性）日本工人创造必要的环境“体面工作”，这是国际劳工组织倡导的21世纪基本议程的概念；无论是在工作场所还是在家庭生活中。研究结果将于2006财政年度结束前以法学博士论文的形式向美国斯坦福大学法学院公开。少

This research project aims at re-examining the post-war neglect of basic issues of care for dependents in the context of contemporary Japanese labor environment from the viewpoints of postmodern and critical legal theories. Under the ongoing "feminization of employment" and "universal commodification" accompanying globalization, how is Japanese public policy ; which is moving from a model of the family to one of the individual as the basic societal unit, changing the role of caretakers for dependents and the nature of our various ties to others, i.e., human interdependency itself?By analyzing recent researches and essays on care work in Japan and on issues of Japanese family/intimate relationships, the author makes a nuanced interpretation of three multifaceted and interlinked sets of concerns of Japanese socio-legal life : public and private, independence and dependency, and generativity and self-esteem.Challenging the Enlightenment notion of the exercise of rights by a self-sufficien … More t individual she explores the understanding of an individual as an entity simultaneously living in three different kinds of relationships : the relationship with oneself, the relationship with the family (or with the object of one's affections), and the relationship with society.Finally she argues that constructing principles of justice and framework of "relational" and/or "intersubjective" rights and responsibilities, which take more seriously that dependency is a normal and rather essential condition of people at certain phases of their lives, may have significant potential in helping (even immigrant female) workers in Japan create the required environment to "Decent Work," the concept of which the ILO advocates as its fundamental agenda of the 21 century; both in the workplace and in the domesticity.The research results will be made available to the public by the end of Fiscal Year 2006 in the form of a Juridical Science Doctorate dissertation to be submitted to Stanford Law School (USA). Less