“African Potential” and overcoming the difficulties of modern world: comprehensive area studies that will provide a new perspective for the future of humanity | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S)

	Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City University
Research Fields/th>	I have investigated the responses of people to/against the projects introduced by external parties in the name of “community-based” with a focus on the Maasai in the southern part of the Republic of Kenya. In the beginning, I studied the outcomes of these projects and people’s opinions and behavior, but I gradually expanded my interests and I now am conducting research on differences in the perception of traditional culture among different generations, and ways of representing ethnic and cultural identities to the external world.
Main Works	Meguro, T. (2016) “Maasai pastoralism today: Reality after group ranch subdivision in southern Kenya.” In Shiino W., Shiraishi S. and Ondicho T. eds. Re-finding African Local Assets and City Environments: Governance, Research and Reflexivity. ILCAA (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa). 127-141. Meguro, T. (2014) “Becoming conservationists, concealing victims: Conflict and positionings of Maasai, regarding wildlife conservation in Kenya.” African Study Monographs Supplementary Issue 50: 155-172. Meguro, T. (2013) “The dynamics of cross-scale linkages in the context of global commons: Aspects of “resistance” to wildlife conservation in the Maasailands of Kenya.” In Murota T. and Takeshita K. eds. Local Commons and Democratic Environmental Governance. UNU Press. 234-252.

Toshio Meguro