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環インド洋世界における開発の世紀
インド洋が古くから人々、商品、思想の継続的な交流を通じて相互に結びついた世界であったことは、広く知られている。その相互連関性や環インド洋世界の一体性がどのように変容したのかどうかについては依然として議論が続いているものの、ヨーロッパによる植民地支配が暴力的な権力関係の変化をもたらしたこと、そしてそれが人々の相互作用や、周囲の社会・生態環境との関係に劇的な変化を引き起こしたことについては、異論はないだろう。さらに、19世紀以降、この広域的な地域では「開発」の名のもとに人間社会と自然環境に対する大規模な介入が正当化されてきたという点でも、歴史を共有していると言えるだろう。イギリスやフランスなどヨーロッパ諸国は環インド洋の諸国に進出し、その資源と市場を確保するために各種の制度やインフラの整備を進めていった。他方で、日本は帝国期に南進政策によって東南アジアに進出し、総力戦を遂行するために森林をふくむ資源を開発した。また、戦後になると戦後賠償による技術援助によって、ポスト植民地期のアジア諸国の開発に関与していった。また、それらの国々の開発は東西冷戦構造と絡み合っており、アメリカとソ連の思惑と絡まり合って展開されてきた。本シンポジウムは開発の概念をあえて定義づけることなく、20世紀中頃に欧米で誕生した理論というよりも幅広い時間と空間において捉えようとする試みの一環として位置づけられる。その目的は、環インド洋世界において展開された開発の理論、言説、実践の多様性にローカルな視点から光を当てることであり、様々な事例の検討を通じて植民地期とポスト植民地期の連続性、開発の「遺産」、国際開発の起源と覇権といった重要なテーマについて理論的な考察を行うとともに、私たちはどのような意味で開発の世紀を生きているのかについて、歴史学、人類学、開発学など異なる分野の研究者が対話する場を用意したいと考えている。
プログラム / Program
TINDOWS International Symposium
The Development Century in the Indian Ocean World
Date: December 13 (Sat) – 14 (Sun), 2025
Venue: Auditorium, Building 18, Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo
Outline of the symposium
Recent scholarship has shown that the Indian Ocean has long been an interconnected world—a space where people, goods, and ideas have circulated for centuries. Yet the waves of European colonial expansion, with their violent reordering of power relations, transformed these networks and redefined the relations between human societies and their environments. From the nineteenth century onward, large-scale imperial interventions came to be justified in the name of “development,” establishing the moral and institutional foundations for what Macekura and Manela have called the development century—a global order structured by the promise of progress and the politics of inequality.
Although South Asia and Africa have often been studied separately, examining them through the lens of imperial science and its genealogical continuities in medicine, resource management, and postwar development aid reveals new and unexpected patterns of connection. European empires such as Britain and Germany, and later Japan, built infrastructures and institutions that linked distant regions through projects of extraction, welfare, and expertise. Japan’s trajectory—from an imperial power to a postwar donor and partner in international development—offers a distinctive window onto how knowledge, technology, and moral claims circulated across the Indian Ocean and beyond.
Revisiting the development century from this broader perspective, the symposium explores how ideas and practices of development emerged from, and reconfigured, longer histories of empire and science. By bringing together case studies from South and Southeast Asia and Africa—ranging from forestry and environmental management to pharmaceuticals, governance, and cooperation—it seeks to illuminate both the continuities and ruptures of empire, and the shifting images of “region” that take shape through Japan’s and others’ engagements in the Indian Ocean world.
Organizer: NIHU Indian Ocean World Studies Project
Co-hosted by IAGS (Institute for Advanced Global Studies, UTokyo), HSP (Graduate Program on Human Security, UTokyo), and The UTokyo Excellent Young Researcher Fund.
Program
Day 1 — Saturday, December 13
14:00 – 14:10
Opening Remarks
Prof. Yuichi Sekiya (The University of Tokyo)
Session I: Environment — The “Legacy” of Imperial Japan’s Forestry
14:10 – 14:35
Prof. Taisaku Komeie (Kyoto University)
The Ambivalent “Legacy” of Japanese Imperial Forestry in Korea
14:40 – 15:05
Prof. Koji Nakashima (Kanazawa University)
Development of Tropical Forestry: A (Post)colonial History of Japanese Empire Forestry
15:10 – 15:35
Prof. Kuang-Chi Hung (National Taiwan University)
The Legacy of Japan’s Colonial Forestry in Taiwan and Its Transformation during the Cold War
15:35 – 16:00
Comments and Replies
Commentator: Prof. Shoko Mizuno (Komazawa University)
16:00 – 16:15 Tea Break
16:15 – 17:00 Open Discussion (the end of Session I)
18:00 – Reception @ Kanran, par Lever son Verre Tokyo
Day 2 — Sunday, December 14
Session II: Medicine — Pharmaceutical Substances and Changing Forms of Governance
09:00 – 09:25
Prof. Ashok Malhotra (Queen’s University Belfast)
Establishing a Nutritional Research Institute in British India, 1925–27
09:30 – 09:55
Prof. Hiroyuki Isobe (Chuo University)
Colonial Revisionism of a Medical Nature?: Production and Distribution of the Drug “Germanin” against the African Trypanosoma, and Its Politicization in “Post-colonial” Germany during the Interwar Period
10:00 – 10:25
Prof. Ayami Umemura (Nagoya University)
Blood as Therapeutic and Political Substance: Ethnicity and Blood Donation in Sri Lanka
10:30 – 10:55
Prof. Akinori Hamada (The University of Tokyo)
Free, Promise, and Practicality: Distributing Pharmaceuticals with/out Care in Southern Ghana
10:55 – 11:30
Comments and Replies
Commentator: Prof. Takuro Furusawa (Kyoto University)
11:30 – 11:45 Tea Break
11:45 – 12:30 Open Discussion (the end of Session II)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
Session III: Development — Historicizing Japanese International Cooperation
13:30 – 13:55
Ms. Lulu Namvua Tessua (University of Nairobi)
The Dreams of Development: Three Years of a Successful Tenure and a Lifetime of Uncertainty in the Ndungu Agricultural Development Project
14:00 – 14:25
Prof. Louisa Lombard (Yale University)
Access or Culture in the Problem of Development: The Case of Kaizen
14:30 – 14:55
Ms. Naomi Hatsukano (Institute of Developing Economies)
Unrealized Development Assistance Plans in Cambodia from the Mid-1950s to Early 1960s: The Origins of Japan’s Development Assistance
15:00 – 15:25
Prof. Kaori Hatsumi (Seinan Gakuin University)
“Mannar Island for Sale”: The War, the COVID-19 Crisis, and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
15:25 – 16:00
Comments and Replies
Commentator: Prof. Tatsuro Fujikura (Kyoto University)
16:00 – 16:10 Tea Break
16:10 – 16:55 Open Discussion (the end of Session III)
17:00 – 17:50 Concluding Roundtable — Reflections Across Sessions I–III
17:50 Closing Remarks