Waka Aoyama (The University of Tokyo)
View Working Paper No. 1, “Listening as Ethics: Kikigaki, Slow Violence, and Relational Ethnography” [PDF] – published March 2026
View Working Paper No. 2, “First Encounters in Camanlangan: Field Reflections, August 2025” [PDF] – published March 2026
View Working Paper No. 3, “Land That Was Dumped (August 21, 2025): Transcript of an Interview with Fr. Stan” [PDF] – published April 2026
View Working Paper No. 4, “A Life Displaced (August 20, 2025): Transcript of an Interview with Nang Carmen” [PDF] – published April 2026
Abstract: Voices after Extraction is a Working Paper series produced as part of the KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) project “Creating a Literature of Reparation to Make Slow Violence Visible: Women Living with Mining in Mindanao” (Project No. 25K15608, FY2025–FY2029). Focusing on a specific mining-affected area in Mindanao, the Philippines—where large-scale extraction has formally ceased but small-scale mining continues intermittently—this series approaches extraction not merely as an economic or environmental process, but as a form of slow violence unfolding across time, bodies, landscapes, and everyday labor. Rather than extracting, summarizing, or representing voices, the series treats listening as an ethical and relational practice, attending carefully to what is spoken, withheld, and carried in silence. Through methodological reflections on kikigaki (listening-based narrative practice), field reflections grounded in repeated visits, and minimally edited interview transcripts released on a rolling basis, the series forms an archive-in-the-making. Over the five-year research period, it traces how narratives shift as relationships deepen, foregrounding how women’s voices emerge as sites of endurance, repair, and collective memory in everyday life after extraction.
Keywords: slow violence, kiki-gaki, Mindanao, Philippines, mining-affected area
要約：本シリーズ「採掘のあとに生まれる声」は、科研費基盤研究（C）「スローバイオレンスを可視化する回復の文学の創成：鉱害を生きるミンダナオの女性たち」（課題番号：25K15608、研究期間：2025–2029年度）の一環として刊行されるワーキングペーパー・シリーズである。フィリピン・ミンダナオの、鉱山に影響を受けている一地域（大規模採掘の閉山後も、小規模採掘が断続的に行われている地域）を主な舞台とし、本シリーズは採掘を単なる経済的・環境的プロセスとしてではなく、時間・身体・景観・日常労働に分散して作用するスローバイオレンスとして捉える。声を抽出し、要約し、代表化するのではなく、聞くことを倫理的かつ関係的な実践として位置づけ、語られるもの、ためらわれるもの、沈黙のうちに担われるものに注意深く留まる姿勢を重視する。聞き書きに関する方法論的考察、反復的な滞在に基づくフィールド・リフレクション、そして最小限の編集を施したインタビュー文字起こしを随時刊行することで、本シリーズは生成中のアーカイブを形成する。5年間の研究期間を通じて、関係の深化にともなう語りの変化を追い、とりわけ女性たちの声が、採掘のあとを生き抜く持続性や修復、そして集合的記憶の場として立ち上がる過程を描き出すことをめざす。
キーワード: スローバイオレンス、聞き書き、ミンダナオ、フィリピン、鉱山に影響を受けている一地域
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