政岡 伸洋

東北地方や近畿地方、南西諸島、韓国済州島のほか、ドイツのラインラント地方なども対象に、民俗の超歴史的理解の再検討、民俗学からの災害研究の可能性、部落問題に対する民俗学からの新たな理解、国家的周縁域における民俗理解の再検討といったテーマを設定し、暮らしの中での意味や歴史的背景にも注意しながら分析することで、一般的なイメージを問い直すとともに、新たな民俗理解のあり方と、それをめぐる問題について考えています。また、これらの成果を活用した社会貢献や社会的実践についても関心があります。

In my research, I focus on regions including Tōhoku, Kinki, the Nansei Islands, Jeju Island (Republic of Korea), and the Rhineland (Germany), and address a set of interrelated themes: the re-examination of transhistorical understandings of folk practices, the potential of disaster studies from the perspective of folklore studies, the development of new folkloristic interpretations of the Buraku issue, and the reassessment of folk understandings in the peripheral regions of the nation-state.

By undertaking analyses that attend closely to the meanings embedded in everyday life and to their historical contexts, I seek to question commonly held assumptions while exploring new approaches to understanding folklore and the issues that surround it.

I am also interested in forms of social contribution and practical engagement that make use of these research outcomes.