Doctoral Dissertation Research: Borderwork in Courtrooms: Documents, Oil, Smuggling in Eastern Turkey.

博士论文研究：法庭边境工作：土耳其东部的文件、石油、走私。

• 批准号: 1226221
• 负责人: James Ferguson
• 金额: $ 2.6万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1226221&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Borderwork; Courtrooms

This project will examine oil smuggling cases in Turkish courts along the Turkish-Iranian-Iraqi borderland. In this region, which is mostly Kurdish-populated, oil smuggling has emerged as a substantial way of earning a living for people facing economic devastation wrought by three decades of armed conflict between the Turkish army and Kurdish guerillas. The project aims to understand the persistence of illegal oil trade in the face of intense military surveillance and frequent court cases about oil smuggling in this borderland. The PI will examine how the mobilization of various legal arguments, court documents with different content and scope of validity, and material qualities of oil (such as the difficulty of marking smuggled oil when it is mixed with legally marketed oil) frame smuggling cases as concerning contested understandings, such as private enterprise or criminal activity. The project will demonstrate how individuals alter legitimate ways of border crossing through binding precedents that establish alternative framings of smuggling in the legal system. Ethnographic work in offices specializing in oil smuggling cases in city centers near Iraq and Iran will allow the researcher to conduct participant-observation, in-depth, semi-structured, life history interviews, and textual analysis of court documents.The project will contribute to studies of borderlands. The project addresses how the material qualities of objects (i.e. documents and oil) influence social and legal processes, and thereby broadens its analysis of practices through which the legal system is contested. The project will also promote a dynamic approach in analyzing and administering the customs and border protection in eastern Turkey and elsewhere. States have become increasingly concerned with protecting the integrity of borders while also facilitating legal trade. This study will contribute to understanding how this line is open to contest in legal fora, contributing to understanding significant questions in national security.

该项目将审查土耳其-伊朗-伊拉克边境地区土耳其法院的石油走私案件。在这个主要居住着库尔德人的地区，石油走私已经成为面临土耳其军队和库尔德游击队长达30年的武装冲突对经济造成破坏的人们的一种重要谋生方式。该项目旨在了解在这个边境地区面对严密的军事监视和频繁的石油走私案件时，非法石油贸易的持久性。国际刑事法院将审查调动各种法律论据、不同内容和有效范围的法庭文件以及石油的物质性质(如走私石油与合法销售的石油混合时难以标记)如何将走私案件框定为涉及私营企业或犯罪活动等有争议的理解。该项目将展示个人如何通过具有约束力的先例改变合法的越境方式，这些先例在法律制度中建立了替代的走私框架。在伊拉克和伊朗附近的市中心，专门处理石油走私案件的办公室的人种学工作将使研究人员能够进行参与者观察、深入的半结构化、生活史访谈和对法庭文件的文本分析。该项目将对边境地区的研究做出贡献。该项目探讨了物品(即文件和石油)的物质性质如何影响社会和法律程序，从而扩大了对法律制度所涉实践的分析。该项目还将促进以动态的方式分析和管理土耳其东部和其他地方的海关和边境保护。各国越来越关注在保护边界完整的同时为合法贸易提供便利。这项研究将有助于理解这条线如何在法律论坛上公开竞争，有助于理解国家安全中的重大问题。