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)法律对成员国境内和境外运作的地方/区域政治新模式的发展的影响。调查员将以英国肯特郡和法国加莱横贯欧洲地区(1990年)为重点，在肯特郡进行主要实地考察。主要目的是提供一份分析民族志，说明在过去五年中，肯特郡当地人对英国的态度和忠诚度如何发生了变化，克服了强烈的英国民族主义，并导致该地区与加莱合并，成为欧共体法律批准的欧洲新的跨境领土。该项目将为科学理解社会法律变革的过程作出重要贡献。调查员将使用观察法，并在肯特郡进行深入采访。该项目还需要对该期间的法律和政策文件进行分析。其结果将是对共享(跨国)法律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的透彻描述和分析。***

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. ***