Deterritorialized Ethnography: Gender Violence and the Anthropology of Globalization

9904441 Merry该项目研究了暴力侵害妇女行为的全球运动，因为它是在国际人权界发展起来的，是一个去宗教化的社区的一个实例。 研究人员是来自韦尔斯利学院的文化人类学家，专注于关于性别暴力的竞争话语，包括歧视，不平等或父权制，因为这些都是国内和国际活动家，政府组织和联合国机构和会议之间的辩论。 这项研究探索了在全球化的后殖民世界中进行民族志的新方法，在这个世界中，许多感兴趣的现象是“无位置的”，信息流动迅速。 民族志的独特贡献一直是它关注小规模的社会单位和构成它们的文化意义和实践。 本项目采用这一方法来探讨全球化所产生的新的政治和文化形态。 通过考察嵌入全球话语中的地方网站和非地域化的全球会议网络和交流形式，它采用了民族志方法来研究地方和全球场所的交叉和重叠。 调查员将研究在夏威夷和斐济以及在联合国审议和跨国非政府组织的非地域化空间中关于性别暴力的讨论。 夏威夷的研究已经完成，该项目现在进一步在斐济进行了一项简短的比较研究，环境与夏威夷相似，并在消除对妇女歧视委员会、联合国妇女地位委员会以及其他关注性别暴力问题的非政府组织进行了参与观察。 该项目将提供关于一个相对较新的现象-跨国文化政治运动-的宝贵信息，并增进我们对全球对性别暴力的反应的理解。

9904441Merry This project studies the global movement of violence against women as it has developed within the international human rights community as an instance of a deterritorialized community. The researcher, a cultural anthropologist from Wellesley College, focuses on competing discourses about gender violence, including discrimination, inequality, or patriarchy as these have been debated among domestic and international activists, governmental organizations and UN agencies and conferences. The study explores new ways of doing ethnography in a globalizing postcolonial world, where much of the phenomena of interest is "placeless" and information flows rapidly. The distinctive contribution of ethnography has always been its focus on small-scale social units and the cultural meanings and practices which constitute them. This project adopts this methodology to explore the new political and cultural configurations produced by globalization. By examining both a local site embedded in global discourse and a deterritorialized global network of meetings and forms of communication, it takes an ethnographic approach to the intersections and overlaps of local and global places. The investigator will study the discourse about gender violence in Hawaii and Fiji and in the deterritorialized space of UN deliberations and transnational NGOs. The Hawaii research is already done, this project now goes further with a brief comparative study in Fiji, a setting similar to Hawaii, and participant observation at the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and the UN Commission on the Status of Women as well as other NGOs focused on gender violence. This project will produce valuable information about a relatively new phenomenon, transnational cultural-political movements, as well as advance our understanding ofthe developing global reaction against gender violence.