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The Library of the Body and Society; The Archive of the Body and Society
RARA Fellow and Professor Shinya Tateiwa passed away on July 31, 2023. We would like to express our deep appreciation of his kindness during life, and respectfully notify the community of his passing. Professor Tateiwa laid the foundations of “Ars Vivendi” (the art of living), which entails the concept of “living with illness, old age, and disability; bodies with differences.” As a core researcher driving upcoming advanced studies at Ritsumeikan University, we were looking forward to having his abilities put to use in developing a leading and advanced research center, all the more adding to our deep sense of loss.
Ritsumeikan University Research Division RARA Office
The Library of the Body and Society; The Archive of the Body and Society
RARA Fellow and Professor Shinya Tateiwa passed away on July 31, 2023. We would like to express our deep appreciation of his kindness during life, and respectfully notify the community of his passing. Professor Tateiwa laid the foundations of “Ars Vivendi” (the art of living), which entails the concept of “living with illness, old age, and disability; bodies with differences.” As a core researcher driving upcoming advanced studies at Ritsumeikan University, we were looking forward to having his abilities put to use in developing a leading and advanced research center, all the more adding to our deep sense of loss.
Ritsumeikan University Research Division RARA Office
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Completed coursework without receiving a degree in the doctoral program in Sociology (A) at the Department of Sociology, University of Tokyo, in 1990. After working as an Assistant in the Faculty of Letters at Chiba University and as an Assistant Professor at the School of Allied Medical Sciences at Shinshu University, joined the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University as a Full Professor in 2004. Director of the Japan Sociological Society (2021- ), Director of the Japan Association for Bioethics (2021- ). Published works include Not Saying/Saying What’s Special About Human Life (Chikuma Publishing) and others.
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“The Library of the Body and Society”
I have worked with many graduate students, graduates, researchers, and others on what has happened, and what has emerged that demands consideration, concerning the body and society over the last one hundred years. I have published over 300 papers and reports in journals such as Sokō, which I founded this year and which has had six issues. I will also advise the writing and submission of approximately 50 doctoral theses and co-edit over 20 books with graduates and graduate students over the next five years.
The entire idea is “the library of the body and society.” I acknowledge each researcher’s topic and respect their desires. However, since everyone’s research target is the same society and the same era, and we are all studying humans, there is of course a connection there. Making this apparent expands and develops research. By making the entire operation available to the public (“the archive of the body and society”) and producing many clusters of research, we will respond to societal issues that cannot be addressed solely with the plodding progress of individual studies.
“The Archive of the Body and Society”
The “Library of the Body and Society” generally will publish results as books.
The archive comprises sets of information published online and in libraries as physical spaces (The preparatory stage of the archive can be found at “follow life and find the way”).
The collection itself is essential.
You must go upstream (sail against the current) for transformation. We will increse publicly available records of interviews of people who lived in the previous century, something which will become impossible to get in another 20 years, from roughly 500 to 1,000. These records naturally form the basis of the research in the “Library of the Body and Society.” Thinking about the orientation of collecting and publishing and creating a system are themselves types of research, and I believe that the results of this research will form a part of the above series. I expect it to take ten years to establish the system, and the study I am working on through a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research KAKEN-hi (Basic Research A), titled “Follow Life and Find the Way: Building the Archive of the Body and Society,” will be conducted during the first five years.
There are some things that will not remain for long if we do not record and collect them, so the project will require large-scale, urgent work. With graduate students and graduates involved in these tasks with the assistance of researchers from multiple other fields working on Grant-in-Aid research such as co-researchers of the KAKEN projects, I aim to have them learn basic techniques for humanities and social sciences, and have the work form part of their own research findings as well.
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