Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Visibility of Minority Movement Organizations in South Africa and Namibia

博士论文研究：南非和纳米比亚少数民族运动组织的可见性

• 批准号: 0601767
• 负责人: Kathleen Blee
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-03-15 至 2007-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0601767&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Visibility; Minority

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Visibility of Minority Movement Organizations in South Africa and NamibiaAbstractLesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender (LGBT) persons have organized themselves over the last ten years into publicly visible groups in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Windhoek, Namibia. This project uses archival research, ethnographic observation of a more publicly visible sexual minority movement organization and a less publicly visible sexual minority movement organization in each city, and in-depth interviews with staff, members, and leaders of sexual minority groups, to understand how sexual minority groups determine how, why, and when they become visible to the media, the state, and their target audiences. Three research questions guide this project: 1) How, when, and why do sexual minority movement organizations in South Africa and Namibia use visibility tactics to promote their messages? 2) How and why do organizations' strategies of visibility change over time? 3) What image and identities do sexual minority movement organizations publicize to their different audiences, how do they arrive at these images and identities, and how do they determine which audiences to target? This dissertation project contributes to existing social movement research by examining the micro-level practices of how sexual minority movement groups pursue public visibility or retreat from public view. By questioning the assumption that visibility is a first step for sexual minority movement groups, this project will introduce this concept as a complicated phenomenon worthy of its own study. Using sexual minority movements as a case study provides an excellent opportunity to demystify two presumptions: 1) that all social movement groups evolve as public entities in the same way and 2) that sexual minority movements always tailor their public visibility strategies in order to promote the visibility of LGBT persons as individuals. The broader impacts of this project are that it will help scholars, policy makers, and human rights workers understand how newly visible, marginalized groups in transitional democracies register their concerns publicly and the processes they use to ensure they are fairly represented. The project redresses the paucity of research on sexual minorities in southern Africa. Sexual minority movement groups struggling with their own public visibility may find this comparative research useful in determining what strategies may work in their favor. South African and Namibian sexual minority activists and historians will have access to the project's findings.

博士论文研究：南非和纳米比亚少数民族运动组织的可见性摘要在过去的十年里，在南非的约翰内斯堡和纳米比亚的温得和克，女同性恋者、男同性恋者、双性恋者和变性者（LGBT）已经组织起来，成为公开可见的团体。 该项目使用档案研究，在每个城市的一个更公开可见的性少数群体运动组织和一个不太公开可见的性少数群体运动组织的人种学观察，以及对性少数群体的工作人员，成员和领导人的深入访谈，以了解性少数群体如何决定，为什么，以及何时他们成为媒体，国家和他们的目标受众可见。 三个研究问题指导这个项目：1）如何，何时，以及为什么在南非和纳米比亚的性少数群体运动组织使用可见性策略，以促进他们的信息？ 2)组织的可见性战略如何以及为什么会随着时间的推移而变化？ 3)性少数群体运动组织向不同的受众宣传什么样的形象和身份，他们如何获得这些形象和身份，以及他们如何确定目标受众？本论文项目有助于现有的社会运动研究，通过研究性少数群体运动团体如何追求公众知名度或从公众视野撤退的微观层面的做法。 通过质疑性少数群体运动的第一步是可见性的假设，本项目将介绍这一概念，作为一个复杂的现象，值得自己的研究。使用性少数群体运动作为案例研究提供了一个很好的机会来揭开两个假设的神秘面纱：1）所有社会运动团体都以同样的方式演变为公共实体; 2）性少数群体运动总是调整其公共可见度战略，以提高LGBT人群作为个人的可见度。该项目的更广泛影响是，它将帮助学者、政策制定者和人权工作者了解过渡民主国家中新出现的边缘化群体如何公开表达他们的关切，以及他们为确保自己得到公平代表而使用的程序。 该项目解决了对南部非洲性少数群体研究不足的问题。 性少数群体运动团体努力与自己的公众知名度可能会发现这种比较研究有助于确定什么策略可能对他们有利。 南非和纳米比亚的性少数活动家和历史学家将有机会获得该项目的调查结果。