The “Yosomono (Outsider)” Concept in the Study of Environmental Movements: Through the Cases of Nature-Rights Movements in Isahaya and Amami

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  • KITOH Shuichi
    Faculty of Agriculture, TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICUTURE AND TECHNOLOGY

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  • 環境運動／環境理念研究における「よそ者」論の射程―諫早湾と奄美大島の「自然の権利」訴訟の事例を中心に―
  • カンキョウ ウンドウ カンキョウ リネン ケンキュウ ニ オケル ヨソモノ ロ

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<p>Often, not only residents but also the “yosomono (outsider)” from outside the area, participate in local environmental movements. Local residents who support a pollution project often attack and stigmatize outside supporters of local environmental movements. But outsiders often offer a wider universal points of view to the environmental movement. They help local residents recognize their strong relations with natural environments in a new way. While outsiders play the important role of introducing new points of view to residents, they also alter themselves at the same time. Outsiders and residents alter themselves mutually. This principle applies to the methodology of environmental sociology.</p><p>The sociologist who analyzes the environmental movement is an outsider. He/she gives meaning to the environmental movement. He/she is required to get close to the life and culture of the the movements. On the other hand a sociologist must evaluate the movement from a universal point of view. While keeping both perspectives, the sociologist must construct a new universal framework to evaluate the human-nature relationship beyond the localism of the residents.</p>

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