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CEGIPE |
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Investigating emerging forms
of engagement in Japan and Asia and comparing the involvement of
middle-aged generations with younger generations in the project CEGIPE,
Civic Engagement and Globalism In the Post-modern Era: Japan and Asia |
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A project initiated by Prof.
DEGUCHI, Masayuki, of
Minpaku, National Museum of Ethnology
in Osaka, Japan. Masayuki Deguchi is a pioneer in social science
research of the third sector (NPO's and NGO's) in Japan. |
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Between October 2006 and
April 2007 a series of seminars take place across Japan. These
seminars and
the project's website aim to
attract academic and non-academic participants and focus on creating
a better understanding of emerging forms of civic engagement in
Japan in particular and Asia in general. |
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See Deguchi's project
presentation held at Minpaku early
summer 2006
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After April 2007, a
follow-up phase will be organized. In this phase we will gather
data, among others by intensive interviewing of key people working
in the intersection of nonprofit organization and local government.
A key delivery of this phase will be an international book
publication. It is planned to launch the book publication during
2008. |
In the course of 2006,
Masayuki Deguchi, Yuko Nishimura of
Komazawa University, Tokyo, Japan, and
Henk Vinken have tied several Japanese and foreign scholars and
activists working in Japan to the project, each participating actively
in building the project by participating in the seminars and
contributing to the agenda of the follow-up phase. Many of those
involved intend to contribute to the international book publication.
This book publication is to be co-edited by Deguchi, Nishimura and
Vinken.
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