Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Sikh Diaspora in Australia: Migration, Militancy and the Imagining of Home

博士论文改进补助金：澳大利亚锡克教侨民：移民、战斗性和对家园的想象

• 批准号: 0853465
• 负责人: Joseph Alter
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 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: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0853465&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Sikh

University of Pittsburgh doctoral student Rory G. McCarthy, with guidance from Dr. Joseph S. Alter, will undertake research on the role of memory and nostalgia in concretizing connections between groups of people living in one place, but claiming origination in another. Of particular interest will be how ethno-national political struggles of the past affect current conceptions of ancestral homelands, and how those conceptions of homeland in turn affect notions of cultural and religious identity. The research will be conducted among diasporic Sikhs in Woolgoolga, New South Wales, Australia. The researcher will collect qualitative data through participant observation, ethnographic interviews, and discourse analysis of local media about the Sikh community. He also will gather family narratives, or histories of family migration as they are understood by the families themselves, to explore the relationship between political rhetoric and a history of violence, and the discursive field surrounding ideas of homeland for diasporic populations. Attention will be paid to the social, cultural and political forces in India and Australia that have contributed to shaping this emerging diasporic identity. Archival materials will be consulted to document the history of Sikh migration to the area.By focusing on the confluence of political rhetoric, violence, and nostalgia for a cultural homeland, this research will contribute to understanding how ethno-national political struggles continue to affect the identities and activities of diasporic populations. Funding this research also supports the education of a social scientist.

匹兹堡大学博士生 Rory G. McCarthy 在 Joseph S. Alter 博士的指导下，将研究记忆和怀旧在具体化生活在一个地方但声称起源于另一个地方的人群之间的联系方面的作用。 特别令人感兴趣的是过去的民族政治斗争如何影响当前的祖先家园概念，以及这些家园概念反过来如何影响文化和宗教身份的概念。 这项研究将在澳大利亚新南威尔士州伍尔古尔加的散居锡克教徒中进行。 研究人员将通过参与观察、民族志访谈以及当地媒体有关锡克教社区的话语分析来收集定性数据。他还将收集家庭叙事或家庭本身所理解的家庭移民历史，以探索政治言论与暴力历史之间的关系，以及围绕侨民家园观念的话语领域。 我们将关注印度和澳大利亚的社会、文化和政治力量，这些力量为塑造这一新兴的侨民身份做出了贡献。 将查阅档案材料，记录锡克教徒移民到该地区的历史。通过关注政治言论、暴力和对文化家园的怀旧的融合，这项研究将有助于理解民族政治斗争如何继续影响散居人群的身份和活动。资助这项研究还支持社会科学家的教育。