Doctoral Dissertation Research in Law and Social Science

法学与社会科学博士论文研究

• 批准号: 9208273
• 负责人: Jane Collier
• 金额: $ 0.63万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-07-01 至 1994-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9208273&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Law; Social

This doctoral dissertation project focusses on the intersection of legal discourses and discourses on ethnic and national identity in the British Virgin Islands. It examines the ways ethnic and national identities have been mutually constructed during the islands' twentieth century experience of continued colonial status, an economic boom fostered by tourism, and a concomitant increase in migration from other Caribbean islands. British Virgin Island national identity has been precariously defined against migrants from independent Caribbean nations who come to work there (who currently make up almost half of the islands' population), the islands' relationship to the UK, and the tourists British Virgin Islander businesses hope to attract. Unlike earlier research which took ethnic and national identities as "givens" and attempted to explain their interactions in terms of "adaptation" resulting from competition over scarce "resources," this study follows leads from recent work on India which questions the premises of adaptationist approaches. Using court cases, records, and interviews, the study will contest the definition of "resources" and "competition" as self-evident, and test the proposition that "resources" themselves are historically constructed along with legal and cultural processes of national and ethnic identity formation. This research will add to anthropological theory on nationalism, ethnicity and law.

这个博士论文项目的重点是在英属维尔京群岛的种族和民族身份的法律话语和话语的交集。它考察了在20世纪岛屿持续的殖民地位、旅游业促进的经济繁荣以及随之而来的来自其他加勒比岛屿的移民增加的经历中，种族和国家身份相互构建的方式。英属维尔京群岛的国家认同一直不稳定，反对来自加勒比海独立国家的移民来这里工作（他们目前几乎占岛上人口的一半），岛屿与英国的关系，以及英属维尔京群岛企业希望吸引的游客。与早期的研究不同，这些研究将种族和国家身份视为“既定的”，并试图从“适应”的角度来解释它们之间的相互作用，这种“适应”是由于对稀缺“资源”的竞争而产生的，这项研究遵循了最近在印度开展的研究的线索，该研究质疑了适应主义方法的前提。本研究将利用法庭案例、记录和访谈，对“资源”和“竞争”的定义提出质疑，并检验“资源”本身是随着国家和族群认同形成的法律和文化过程而历史建构的命题。这一研究将为民族主义、种族和法律的人类学理论增添新的内容。