State-Managed International Voluntary Service: The Case of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers

Okabe, Yasunobu

State-Managed International Voluntary Service: The Case of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-11-27
  • 售價: $2,310
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 324
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 9819736145
  • ISBN-13: 9789819736140

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商品描述

This open access book addresses two issues of state-managed international voluntary service (SMIVS)--its contributions and advantages/disadvantages--by the case study of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV). Until now, the literature has given little attention to SMIVS and Asian international voluntary service (IVS). Proposing the concept of SMIVS, this is the first book in English to focus on JOCV and IVS managed by the Japanese government.

The book is organized into two parts. In Part I, the authors, including scholars, former volunteers, and practitioners, explore the contributions of JOCV to the development in host communities, personal and professional development of volunteers, and Japanese civil society. In Part II, the authors analyze how JOCV creates advantages such as multilevel support by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), a Japanese government aid agency, and disadvantages such as the weak expertise of volunteers. The authors' theoretical approaches cover capacity development, social capital, gift theory, and institutional theory, and their methodologies include statistical analysis of survey data, interview-based anthropological interpretation, and single/comparative case study. This combination of multiple approaches and methodologies is a strong feature of the study reported here.

Thanks to state management, as the book demonstrates, JOCV can facilitate mutual benefits between volunteers and host communities, enhancing the human capital of the former and contributing to the socioeconomic development of the latter. It also shows that Japanese volunteers blend into host communities well, respecting and learning their social values and perspectives. This achievement is accomplished to the extent that collaborative and equal interpersonal relationships are nurtured between the volunteers and local people, including counterparts. Thus, this book helps to reduce inequality and stereotypes in IVS, with implications for other state-managed IVS.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本開放存取的書籍探討了國家管理的國際志願服務（SMIVS）的兩個問題——其貢獻和優點/缺點——通過對日本海外協力隊（JOCV）的案例研究。迄今為止，文獻對SMIVS和亞洲國際志願服務（IVS）的關注很少。本書提出了SMIVS的概念，是第一本專注於由日本政府管理的JOCV和IVS的英文書籍。

本書分為兩個部分。在第一部分中，包括學者、前志願者和從業人員在內的作者們探討了JOCV對村莊發展、志願者的個人和職業發展以及日本公民社會的貢獻。在第二部分中，作者們分析了JOCV創造的優勢，例如由日本政府援助機構日本國際協力機構（JICA）提供的多層次支持，以及志願者專業知識薄弱等缺點。作者們的理論方法包括能力建設、社會資本、禮物理論和制度理論，研究方法包括對調查數據的統計分析、基於訪談的人類學解釋，以及單個/比較案例研究。這種多種方法和方法論的結合是本研究的一個強大特點。

正如本書所展示的，由於國家管理，JOCV能夠促進志願者和村莊社區之間的互利，提升前者的人力資本，並促進後者的社會經濟發展。它還表明，日本志願者能夠很好地融入村莊社區，尊重並學習他們的社會價值觀和觀點。這一成就是在志願者與當地人民之間建立合作平等的人際關係的基礎上實現的，包括與對應人員之間的關係。因此，本書有助於減少IVS中的不平等和刻板印象，對其他國家管理的IVS具有啟示意義。

作者簡介

Yasunobu Okabe is Professor at the Graduate School of Law, Tohoku University, Japan. He is also Visiting Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Ogata Research Institute. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. From 2010 to 2015, he served as Senior Research Fellow at the JICA Ogata Research Institute. Currently, he is undertaking research on international volunteering and Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers from a comparative and historical perspective. He published various articles and books on Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers in English and Japanese such as "Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers: Its Genesis and Development" In Hiroshi Kato et al., eds., Japan's Development Assistance: Foreign Aid and the Post-2015 Agenda (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); "What Motivates Japan's International Volunteers? Categorizing Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCVs)." VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations (2019) 30(5) (co-authored with Sakiko Shiratori and Kazuya Suda). The book he served as editor of, Achievements of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers: Working for Development Cooperation and Fostering Globally Competent Human Resources for 50 Years [2018, in Japanese], won the special award of the Japan Society for International Development in 2019.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

岡部康信是日本東北大學法學研究院的教授，也是日本國際協力機構（JICA）緒方研究所的訪問研究員。他在東京大學獲得博士學位。從2010年到2015年，他擔任JICA緒方研究所的高級研究員。目前，他正在從比較和歷史的角度進行關於國際志願服務和日本海外協力志願者的研究。他發表了許多關於日本海外協力志願者的英文和日文文章和書籍，例如《日本海外協力志願者：起源與發展》（收錄於加藤博、等人編，《日本的發展援助：對外援助與2015年後議程》（Palgrave Macmillan，2016））；《是什麼激勵了日本的國際志願者？對日本海外協力志願者進行分類》（《VOLUNTAS：國際志願與非營利組織國際期刊》（2019）30（5）（與白鳥咲子和須田和也合著））。他擔任編輯的書籍《日本海外協力志願者的成就：為發展合作工作並培養全球競爭力人才50年》[2018年，日文]，獲得了2019年日本國際發展學會的特別獎。

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