Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Making and Unmaking Polish Persons: Aging and Memory in Postsocialist Poland

博士论文改进补助金：波兰人的塑造与毁灭：后社会主义波兰的老龄化与记忆

• 批准号: 0819259
• 负责人: Gillian Feeley-Harnik
• 金额: $ 0.88万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-12-01 至 2010-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0819259&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Making

Under the supervision of Dr. Gillian Feeley-Harnik, graduate student Jessica C. Robbins will conduct research on aging and memory in Poland. Robbins will investigate processes of aging in the context of the large-scale transformations in Polish society that have occurred during the lifetimes of the oldest generations. She will study practices of memory in personal, medical, social, political, and national contexts in order to address these key research questions: 1) How does the past involvement of elderly Poles in the project of state socialism correspond to their contemporary personal, social, and political legitimacy, and how do both of these correspond to their self-identification with the Polish nation? 2) How does identification with larger political forms relate to practices of memory by elderly Poles and their kin, and how do these practices of memory connect to the making, transforming, and decline of elderly Poles? Robbins will conduct ethnographic fieldwork in Wroclaw and Poznan, two cities where the socialist past is remembered in different ways. Contemporary commemorations of the 1956 labor uprising in Poznan have entailed controversy over the relationship between the socialist past, the historical Polish nation, and the contemporary Polish nation-state in a way that has not occurred in Wroclaw. Methods will include semi-structured and unstructured interviews, life histories, case studies, and extensive participant-observation, in a variety of institutional and non-institutional settings. This research will contribute an ethnographic perspective to popular and scholarly debates on nationalism that often omit the relationship between popular discourse and actual lives. This research will contribute to substantive and theoretical debates in kinship studies, medical anthropology, and postsocialist studies. This research will be of use to policy-makers who are considering the best way to care for the increasing number of elderly in Poland and worldwide. This research will also contribute to the training of a social scientist.

在Gillian Feeley-Harnik博士的指导下，研究生杰西卡·C·罗宾斯将在波兰进行关于衰老和记忆的研究。罗宾斯将在波兰社会发生大规模变革的背景下调查老龄化过程，这些变革发生在最年长的几代人的有生之年。她将在个人、医学、社会、政治和国家背景下研究记忆的实践，以解决这些关键的研究问题：1)波兰老年人过去参与国家社会主义项目的情况如何与他们当前的个人、社会和政治合法性相对应，以及这两者如何与他们对波兰国家的自我认同相对应？2)对更大政治形式的认同如何与波兰老年人及其亲属的记忆实践相关联，以及这些记忆实践如何与波兰老年人的形成、转变和衰落相联系？罗宾斯将在弗罗茨瓦夫和波兹南进行人种学田野调查，这两个城市以不同的方式纪念社会主义的过去。波兹南1956年劳工起义的当代纪念活动引发了关于社会主义历史、历史上的波兰民族和当代波兰民族国家之间的关系的争议，这种争议在弗罗茨瓦夫没有发生过。方法将包括半结构化和非结构化访谈、生活史、案例研究和广泛的参与者观察，在各种机构和非机构环境中。这项研究将从人种学的角度对民族主义的流行和学术辩论做出贡献，这些辩论往往忽略了流行话语和现实生活之间的关系。这项研究将有助于亲属关系研究、医学人类学和后社会主义研究中的实质性和理论辩论。这项研究将对政策制定者有用，他们正在考虑如何以最好的方式照顾波兰和世界各地日益增长的老年人。这项研究还将有助于培养一名社会科学家。