Doctoral Dissertation Research: Embodied Geopolitics of Everyday Life in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

为了理解什么过程中所涉及的固化，以及在波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那（波黑）解散民族身份，这个博士论文研究项目的重点是日常活动和仪式，体现了特定的民族身份，以及伴随着他们的情绪。前南斯拉夫地区复杂的族裔身份几乎总是与1990年代发生的残酷冲突联系在一起。特别是在波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那（波黑），关于族裔问题的主要政治论述的特点是，试图将不同族裔之间的对立自然化，并使暴力和建立族裔单一地区合法化。种族教派意识形态渗透到波斯尼亚社会的所有结构和机构，从政治和教育机构到宗教和文化机构;最重要的是，它严重地影响了波斯尼亚人民的日常生活。因此，本项目旨在研究被称为“日常生活的地缘政治学”的世俗实践;具体而言，本研究不仅研究特定的人在日常生活中在特定的地方做什么，而且还研究了他们在这些环境中感受到什么以及他们正在经历什么样的情绪。 本研究以日常生活的质性研究为主，运用参与观察、随走、访谈、时空情感日记等方法。研究地点是波黑西南部的莫斯塔尔镇。这是一个历史性的背景，当代的社会空间景观是战争暴行的产物，相互竞争的民族主义意识形态，以及在代顿后波黑的行政种族划分下创造的动荡的政治气候，在此期间，该镇被隔离为“波斯尼亚/穆斯林”东部和“克罗地亚/天主教”西部。因为，在对情感的非表征理论的几种批评中，有一种是声称它没有被用来理解具有真实的社会和政治重要性的问题。此外，本研究在建筑环境的情感和情感方面的研究中，采用了心理学中开发的创新方法;特别是该项目使用了一种既定的投射技术，可以评估参与者日常活动中的情感和影响。从而推进了地理学情感研究的方法论。更广泛地说，从这项研究中获得的见解将有助于我们了解整个欧洲的多元文化主义的当前挑战。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立的研究生涯。

In order to comprehend what processes are involved in solidifying, as well as dissolving ethnic identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), this doctoral dissertation research project focuses on the daily activities and rituals that embody a particular ethnic identity, as well as emotions that accompany them. Complexities of ethnic identity in the region of former Yugoslavia are almost always associated with the brutal conflict that occurred in the 1990s. Dominant political discourses on ethnicity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in particular, are marked with attempts to naturalize opposition between different ethnicities, as well as legitimize violence and creation of ethnically homogeneous areas. Ethnosectarian ideology permeates all structures and institutions of Bosnian society, from political and educational institutions to religious and cultural ones; most of all, it heavily structures the everyday life of people in Bosnia. As such, this project seeks to study the mundane practices of what has been called the "geopolitics of everyday life"; specifically, this research examines not only what particular people are doing in particular places in their daily life, but also the much under-studied issue of what they feel and what emotions they are experiencing in these settings. The research is a primarily qualitative investigation of daily life, based on deployment of multiple methods such as participant observation, walk-alongs, interviews and space-time-emotion diary. The site of the study is a town of Mostar, located in southwestern BiH. It is a historic setting, the contemporary socio-spatial landscape of which is the product of war atrocities, competing nationalist ideologies, and a volatile political climate created under the administrative ethnic partitioning of post-Dayton BiH, during which the town was segregated into a "Bosniak/Muslim" east and a "Croat/Catholic" west.The dissertation advances our knowledge of the relationships between emotions, affect, and geopolitics; for, among several criticisms of affect's non-representational theories is the claim that it has not been used to understand problems of real social and political importance. In addition, this research deploys, in the study of the affective and emotional dimensions of the built environment, an innovative methodology developed in psychology; in particular the project uses an established projective technique that enables the assessment of emotions and affect during participants' daily activities. In this way, this research advances methodologies of affect and emotion in geography. More broadly, the insights gained from this study will contribute to our understanding of the current challenges of multiculturalism throughout Europe. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.