Colonial Consequences of the Japanese Empire in the Mariana Islands

Informations projet

ColonialConsequences

N° de convention de subvention: 884237

DOI

10.3030/884237

Projet clôturé le 31 Mai 2022

Date de signature de la CE 11 Mars 2020

Date de début 15 Avril 2021

Date de fin 12 Novembre 2023

Financé au titre de

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coût total

€ 172 932,48

Contribution de l’UE

€ 172 932,48

Coordonné par

UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA
Spain

Description du projet

Réconciliation entre peuples indigènes et non indigènes

Les effets négatifs de la colonisation ont toujours un impact au quotidien sur les populations indigènes. La reconnaissance d’un passé difficile, par exemple la vie en pensionnat et la violence aux frontières, est une façon de faire avancer le processus de réconciliation entre les peuples indigènes et non indigènes. Le projet ColonialConsequences, financé par l’UE, abordera ces questions et approfondira les connaissances sur la manière dont les groupes autochtones ont négocié leur identité pendant les périodes coloniales. Il se concentrera plus particulièrement sur le colonialisme japonais dans les îles Mariannes. Les chercheurs du projet recueilleront des documents et des histoires orales de la période japonaise afin de comprendre les influences nipponnes sur la culture indigène. Le but du projet est d’approfondir notre compréhension de l’impérialisme japonais et de ses effets sur les habitants des îles Mariannes.

Objectif

Understanding colonial cultural impacts on Indigenous ways of living have come to the fore in recent years. In 2015, both Canada and Australia have urged governments to acknowledge difficult histories such as residential schools and frontier violence in order to advance the process of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Similarly, in the Mariana Islands, scholars have focused on examining colonial impacts on Chamorro and Carolinian identity, largely in response to increased militarisation of the islands by the United States (U.S.) government. Examining the cultural identity of Indigenous peoples in the Marianas works to support Indigenous self-determination and resist further colonial actions by U.S. occupiers. Despite excellent work on Spanish and U.S. influences on Indigenous culture in the Marianas, little work has thoroughly examined the colonial cultural impact of the Japanese Empire in Micronesia. As a result, scholarship endorses a narrative that characterises Chamorro culture as a hybrid of Chamorro and Spanish or American cultural elements. Without an adequate analysis of Japanese colonial cultural impacts, we neglect to fully understand contemporary Indigenous culture in the Marianas Islands, which were occupied by three to four different colonial powers.
My project begins to address this gap by analysing the material remains of Japanese colonialism in the Mariana Islands. Working with the community, my project will record materials and oral histories from the Japanese Period in order to understand Japanese influences on Indigenous culture. The project will further our understandings of Japanese imperialism, its effects on the people of the Mariana Islands and provide necessary analytical comparisons from a part of the Mariana Islands currently underrepresented in the literature. Furthermore, this work will contribute to a growing body of research on the ways Indigenous groups negotiated their identity during colonial periods.

Champ scientifique (EuroSciVoc)

• lettres › histoire et archéologie › histoire

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMME PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Thème(s)

• MSCA-IF-2019 - Individual Fellowships
  

Régime de financement

MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)

Appel à propositions

H2020-MSCA-IF-2019

Coordinateur

UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA

• Contribution nette de l'UE: € 172 932,48
• Adresse: PLACA DE LA MERCE, 10-12 ; 08002 Barcelona ; Espagne
• Région: Este › Cataluña › Barcelona
• Type d’activité: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coût total: € 172 932,48