Doctoral Dissertation Research: Analyzing Aid Documentation and its Impact on Public Policy in a Conflict Zone

博士论文研究：分析援助文件及其对冲突地区公共政策的影响

• 批准号: 1260640
• 负责人: Peter Little
• 金额: $ 2.33万
• 依托单位: Emory University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1260640&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Analyzing; Aid

Under the supervision of Peter Little of Emory University, Aubrey Graham will explore how the photographic documentation produced by international aid agencies working in conflict zones relates to local understandings of conflict and humanitarian effort. International aid agencies number more than 25,000 worldwide; and the images they produce has profoundly influenced international public policy. Through novel methods that use photography, participant observation, and interviews, this project analyzes the connections and contrasts between humanitarian and local visual culture and practice in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) -- the site of both the deadliest conflict since WWII and one of the world's largest humanitarian efforts. In balancing local and aid agency perspectives through the comparison of local visual culture and humanitarian visual culture (photographs created for aid agencies) this project will produce data that shows how humanitarian photographic practices and processes impact local and international relationships. The unique mixed method approach of this project will enable it to make transformative contributions to the fields of visual anthropology and the anthropology of development and humanitarianism. In addition to educating a graduate student in anthropology, this project will also influence public policy efforts in the areas of conflict resolution, humanitarianism, and development practice.

在埃默里大学彼得·利特尔的监督下，奥布里·格雷厄姆将探索在冲突地区工作的国际援助机构制作的摄影文献如何与当地对冲突和人道主义努力的理解有关。全世界有25 000多个国际援助机构;它们所产生的形象深刻影响了国际公共政策。通过使用摄影，参与者观察和采访的新方法，该项目分析了刚果（DRC）东部的人道主义和当地视觉文化和实践之间的联系和对比-这是自二战以来最致命的冲突和世界上最大的人道主义努力之一。通过比较当地视觉文化和人道主义视觉文化（为援助机构创作的照片），平衡当地和援助机构的观点，该项目将产生数据，显示人道主义摄影实践和过程如何影响当地和国际关系。该项目独特的混合方法将使其能够为视觉人类学和发展人类学以及人道主义领域做出变革性的贡献。除了培养人类学研究生外，该项目还将影响冲突解决，人道主义和发展实践领域的公共政策努力。