KUSAKA Wataru

Researcher, GCOE Program for Reconstruction of the Intimate and Public Spheres in 21^st Century Asia (2008-2009), Kyoto University　　　

Academic Background:

Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University

Research Subjects:

1. The politics of the poor in the Philippines
2. Class friction in the Philippine civil society

Main Academic Achievements (2-3):

Papers Published: (* All the papers are written in Japanese)

2008. "Aporia in Philippine Civil Society: The Moral Conflict between 'Citizens' and 'Masses' in the Dual Public Sphere, Southeast Asian Studies 46(3): 420-441.

2007　"Agency and Dilemma of the Urban Poor: Struggle for Order Making with the Issue of Street Vendors in Metro Manila", Asian Studies 53(4): 20-36.

2007　"Pitfall and Dilemma of the Philippine Society: Fear, Enlightenment and Exclusion of the Middle Class against the Poor", Research Grant Report for year 2005 submitted to grant supplier the Setsutaro Kobayashi Memorial Fund.

2006　"The Struggle for Hegemony among Populism(s) in the Philippines:
Political Expressions and Dynamics of "Class Conflict" under the Regime of Neo-Liberalism", Social and Cultural Studies (19): 107-120.

Research Group: Field Research

Research Subject and Research Plan for the GCOE Program:

My research subject is the transformation of the intimate sphere due to immigration between the Philippines and Japan, which I describe as the diasporization of the intimate sphere in the Philippines and the multi-culturalization of the Japanese society, and analyze as the two sides of the same coin, in an inter-related framework.
 Firstly, I examine the way immigration became unavoidable for the maintenance and reproduction of the intimate sphere in the two societies in the capitalist economy. Secondly, I intend to make clear from inside the way different social groups in the two societies are experiencing the transformation of the intimate sphere. Thirdly, I focus on the practice of improving and resolving the problems arising from the transformation of the intimate sphere. I distinguish three kinds of practice: one within the intimate sphere, one within the public sphere in the civil society, and one by the state. In so doing, I attempt to reveal the possibilities and further research subjects in each case.

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