大学共同利用機関法人 人間文化研究機構　国立民族学博物館

Objectives

At the same time that we see homogenization proceeding by globalization and urbanization, amidst this homogeneity “exclusion” as a form of control has appeared. This exclusion differs from simple classifying by race, ethnicity or gender that we see with issues such as racism or Orientalism, but rather is exclusion drawn with flexible, complex lines that expresses itself in terms of the fourth world. Facing such conditions, for excluded individuals to put resistance into practice, attention is being given to the multitude strategy of overcoming the fluidity of globalization through other forms of global fluidity. However, even while this research plan attends to the multiplicity and diversity contained in the concept of multitude, the focus is rather on the local and trans-local (what Lévi-Strauss referred to as the “level of authenticity”) in everyday practice that does not depend on the global fluidity as with the practice of resistance and the local that is in contraposition with the global, nor is it contrasted with the global. This is an actual nonlinear line which makes multidimensional lines produced through planned and linear thinking meaningless. With this research plan, we will examine the actual practice of maintaining raw multiplicity and diversity, even being excluded by planned and linear thinking, which can establish multiple contexts simultaneously. Then our objective is to illuminate places where there is multifaceted commonality with diversity created in globalization and urbanization.