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

9308604 COMAROFF这个项目将研究欧共体（EC）法律对发展在成员国国界内外运作的地方/区域政治新模式的影响。调查人员将以英国肯特和法国加莱跨manche欧洲地区（1990年）为重点，在肯特进行初步实地调查。本文的主要目的是提出一种分析性的民族志，说明在过去五年中，肯特当地对英国的态度和忠诚是如何转变的，克服了强烈的英国民族主义，并导致该地区与加莱一起成为欧盟法律认可的欧洲新的跨境领土。这个项目将对科学地理解社会法律变化的过程作出重要贡献。研究者将使用观察方法并在肯特郡进行深入访谈。该项目还需要分析这一时期的法律和政策文件。结果将是一个全面的描述和分析，一个共同的（跨国）法律制度是如何被用作带来变革的技术工具和一个意识形态框架来调解政治、经济和文化联系的过程。＊＊＊

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. ***