Published papers

Through the introduction of two practical examples, this paper demonstrates how public humanities and public history can give new meaning to folk customs and people’s lives. First, a case involving the burning of New Year’s decorations (Sagicho), aside from being a ritual to return a deity to the sky, which is an authorized story among the local community, shows how such an event can strengthen social bonds. Second, pilgrimage groups who visit a famous shrine (Iseko) function to not only enhance religious beliefs, but also act as a basis for communal life. All of these functions were discovered through collaborative research with residents and nonprofit organizations. Public humanities enable us to work with people to uncover the functions of social groups and the events of which they are unaware. In particular, this paper demonstrates that the analysis of folk customs fundamental to community life, which can be considered a repertoire of symbiosis, can provide questions on universal themes.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the concept of publicness from the perspective that publicness has local dimensions, and from a case study. First, we will organize the existing concept of publicness, taking Habermas' concept of civic publicness as a starting point. While acknowledging the value of Habermas' civic publicness, we argue that publicness that encompasses the physicality presented by Crosley and the oppositional nature presented by Mouffe is separate from civic publicness and is presented as "popular publicness". "Popular publicness" is a publicness that is carried by people who do not have specific requirements, and in which groups with various opinions recognize each other's positions. In the popular publicness, it is not an abstract image of citizenship, but real people. By applying this framework of popular publicness to the case of residents' participation in the policy process in Quezon City, the Philippines, we have highlighted the nature of publicness in the region. In other words, while civic publicity is appropriate for institutional participatory public administration, popular publicity is appropriate for the expression of opinions from grassroots organizations, and the two are mutually complementary types of publicity. In order to nurture popular publicness, which is the counterpart of civic publicness, a sense of familiarity with grassroots organizations, an awareness of the problems of daily life, and a rich social network are necessary.

The purpose of this paper is to illuminate how ''urban poor'' can make solidarity. It focuses especially on their mental which sees a poverty-situation as a stigma. This is a case study to answer the question wheter people can make solidarity by a positive identification overcoming the stigma. The cases are a struggle for a land tenure in Tatalon Estate and a garbage collection in Talayan Barangay both in Quezon City in the their discontent, is fragile in processing the movement. In addition, it has no channel to collaborate with others. On the other hand, a loose network without such strong purpose can make a sustainable solidarity. It concludes that the solidarity will take a a strength to face up to their poverty-situation positively in their daily lives as cases show.

In this study, it was explored the significance of a narrative between the individuals involved in the problem and the researchers, who are not involved in the problem, when conducting a research study on the process of finding and solving a certain problem. In conclusion, this study revealed that through the narrative with the researcher who is not involved in the problem, a narrative that does not occur between the two parties is generated, and the contradictions contained in the narrative are analyzed and discussed in terms of the orientation and significance of the narrative.

This paper aims to clarify the positioning and functions of resident self-governing bodies in network governance and to deepen the approach to research on resident self-governing bodies in policy informatics. Existing typologies in previous studies have not succeeded in positioning resident self-governing bodies. In this paper, we separate local communities and resident self-governing organizations by confirming their respective regional and location characteristics, and categorize resident self-governing organizations and community activity organizations based on their functions and purposes. As a result, it became clear that residents' self-governing bodies have a characteristic not found in other organizations: they organize community activity organizations for the direct purpose of developing and maintaining local communities. Residents' self-governing organizations, which can now be understood in this way, also have a character as intermediate organizations that ensure diversity and develop network-type governance. By incorporating CBPR, in which researchers conduct research together with residents' self-governing bodies that can play a role in social governance as intermediary organizations, a concrete example of the organic combination of clinical research and meta-research that policy informatics aims for was presented.

This paper illuminates how a person can finish the process of becoming a Hogoshi, volunteer probation aide, and what methodology is need to deal with analysis of socialization to someone such as Hogoshi. To illuminate them, this paper shows a life story of a woman who has a rich experience as a Hogoshi for 34 (thirty four) years. It is difficult for a person to achieve socialization to Hogoshi due to a lack of clear guideline and to too many values which s/he can choose. The woman has many aspects except as a Hogoshi, and her life story cannot be simply summarized as a life as a Hogoshi. Through a process to become a Hogoshi, she has been a plural actor and her fragmentary episodes sometimes explain her aspect as a　Hogoshi and sometimes don’t. That’s why it needs for an analysis of socialization to Hogoshi that focusing on the whole person as a plural actor. A process to become a Hogoshi cannot be finished but s/he can be one of significant others or a convey each other with his/her object persons by continuous relationship with them.

The purpose of this paper is to construct the basis of the social and economic simulation on evolving network. To achieve the purpose, we first suggest that multi-agent model is useful in simulating network formation and second replicate three typical models of evolving network.The models are ''random network model'' , ''scale-free network model'' and ''fitness network model''. Finally, we simulate ''information propagation model'' on evolving network and demonstrate that it is easy to expand multi-agent model on evolving network to social and economic simulation.