〈親の背中〉が語る時

沖縄反戦地主二世にみる平和の継承

抄録

　This study addresses how a person comes to take action for "peace." I take up "Y," the son of an anti-war landowner in Okinawa. It is the purpose of this paper to clarify the process by which an individual come to participate in peace activity.
　Past events in Y's daily life or that were an extension of it and that did not move Y forward to undertake peace activity independently, are mobilized in his current self, as "an anti-war landowner." Past events are reinterpreted in order that they may be in accord with the current self, and these are then incorporated as elements constructing a story of the self. Past memories are hauled up to make a story of the self as told from the current, position. For Y, a coherent flow is provided by the "example set by his parents." Mr. Ahagon, a symbolic figure in the land struggle, refers to "history as a resource."
　The case of Y shows that the starting point for participation in peace activity is in "living in the present" not in past experience, and that it is possible for the inheritance of peace to be succeeded by others beyond the family. Special environments and experiences are not always necessary for participation in peace activity. However "the origin" of self through "pain"during childhood or through the "example set by his parents" for Y is necessary to bundle up a "piece" of experiences.