Doctoral Dissertation Research: Traversing Legal Channels: An Ethnography of the Kent/Calais Euroregion

9308604 COMAROFF本项目将研究欧洲共同体（EC）法律对成员国国界内外地方/区域政治新模式发展的影响。 以英国肯特和法国加莱Transmanche欧元区（1990年）为重点，调查员将在肯特进行主要实地考察。 主要目标是提出一个分析民族志如何当地的态度和对英国的偏见已经改变了肯特在过去的五年中，克服强烈的英国民族主义，并导致该地区的加入与加莱作为一个新的跨国界的欧洲领土批准欧共体法律。 这一项目将对社会法律变革过程的科学理解作出重要贡献。 调查员将使用观察方法，在肯特进行深入访谈。 该项目还需要分析这一期间的法律的和政策文件。 其结果将是透彻地描述和分析一个共同的（跨国的）法律的制度如何被用作实现变革的技术工具和调解政治、经济和文化联系进程的意识形态框架。 ***

9308604 COMAROFF This project will examine the impact of European Community (EC) law on the development of new patterns of local/regional politics operating inside and outside member-states' national borders. Focusing on the British Kent and French Calais Transmanche Euroregion (1990), the investigator will conduct primary fieldwork in Kent. The main objective is to present an analytical ethnography of how local attitudes and allegiances to Britain have shifted in Kent over the past five years, overcoming strong British nationalism, and resulting in the region's joining with Calais as a new trans-border territory of Europe sanctioned by EC law. This project will make an important contribution to scientific understanding of processes of sociolegal change. The investigator will use observational methods and conduct in- depth interviews in Kent. The project will also require analysis of legal and policy documentation for the period. The result will be a thorough description and analysis of how a shared (transnational) legal system is used as both a technical tool to bring about change and an ideological framework to mediate processes of political, economic and cultural affiliation. ***