‘Global COE Program Ars Vivendi of Ritsumeikan University (Ed.) March 7, 2008
From/to Time Space: KURIHARA Akira & INABA Masaki Talk about
Minamata/Africa,
Report Issued by Research Center for Ars Vivendi of Ritsumeikan
University, Vol.2, 2008. 157p. ISSN 1882-6539
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[Table of Contents]
Preface by
TATEIWA Shin'ya --- 3
Special Open Seminar "Questions in History: Talk with
KURIHARA Akira" --- 11
Speaker:
KURIHARA Akira (Distinguished
Invited Professor, Global COE Program Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan
University)
Interviewer:
Tateiwa, Shin'ya (Professor,
Graduate School of Core Ethics & Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan
University),
Amada, Josuke(Associate
Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics & Frontier Sciences,
Ritsumeikan University), and others
Event / Body --- 17
@ Event as a Gesture --- 17
@ Group Evacuation and
Ryokan-sama --- 18
@ A Boy in Nagasaki --- 20
Questions in History --- 23
@ Questions of Violence --- 23
@ Appeal from Minamata --- 24
@ International Relations among People --- 26
@ In New York --- 27
@ Beheiren (Citizen's League for Peace in Vietnam) and Conflicts at School --- 28
@ The Position of the Academic World --- 29
@ Various Politics --- 30
@ Communes --- 31
@ Omoto-kyo --- 31
@ Minamata --- 33
@ Volunteer Activities / Citizens' Activities --- 34
Minamaba: Human Politics--- 36
@ Minamata Forum: From 1998 --- 36
@ Exhibition of Minamata Disease: October 2001 --- 37
@ Exhibition of Minamata and Takahata: June 1999 --- 38
@ Voluntary Negotiation between Minamata Victims and Chisso Corporation --- 40
@ New Noh "Shiranui" Performed in Minamata: August 2004 --- 41
@ Politics of Ars Vivendi --- 44
@ Politics of Symbiosis --- 44
@ Politics as Proof of Existence --- 45
@ Logic of Practical Gestures --- 46
Questions and Answers --- 50
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Comment and Question 1 --- 50
@ Comment and Question 2 --- 58
@ Comment and Question 3 --- 63
@ Responses from Prof. KURIHARA --- 66
Special Open Seminar "To Africa / World: Talk with INABA Masaki" --- 75
Speaker:
INABA Masaki (
Africa Japan Forum)
Interviewer:
TATEIWA Shin'ya (Professor,
Graduate School of Core Ethics & Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan
University), and others
INABA Masaki: His History --- 79
@ Africa Japan Forum: From 2002 --- 79
@ OCCUR: From 1991 --- 80
@ AIDS Conference in Yokohama, and Africa Japan Forum: From 1994 --- 82
@ Supporting Asylum Seekers: From 2000 --- 84
@ Kotobuki-cho and the University: From 1988 --- 85
Africa and Japan: Past and Present --- 89
@ Past: From Medieval to Meiji Era --- 89
@ Globalization around Tobu-Noda Line --- 91
@ Africans Living in Japan and HIV/AIDS --- 93
@ African Businesses in Japan and their Background --- 95
(South) Africa: "The Most Developed Country" --- 98
@ High Gross National Income and Low Human Development Index --- 98
@ Developing Underdeveloped Countries --- 99
@ Growth and Distribution --- 101
@ Empty Magic Bullet Called "Eliminating Poverty through Economy Development" --- 104
@ Drain of Skilled Human Resources --- 108
@ How to Prevent the Drain --- 111
Strategies and Tactics of Social Movements --- 114
@ Two Streams --- 114
@ G8 Summit in Heiligendamm --- 116
@ We Need Both --- 118
@ Mutual Exchange of Citizen Society Sectors and National Sectors --- 120
@ What can We Make "Another Thing"? --- 123
@ Conditions and Possibilities of Africa --- 127
@ Africa to the World --- 130
@ It Is Not Much Difficult if you make your mind up --- 134
Questions and Answers 1 --- 138
@ Target / Mobilize --- 138
@ Injury / Willingness --- 141
Questions and Answers 2: The Situation of Gay and Gay Activism in
Africa --- 145
@ Nigeria / Ghana / Uganda --- 146
@ The Involved Person's Movements in South Africa --- 149
@ Gay in Islam World --- 149
@ Supposed Gay Communities --- 150
@ Supplements on the Involved Person's Movementsb in South Africa --- 153
Postscript by
AMADA
Josuke--- 155