Doctoral Dissertation Research: Borderland Orders: An Ethnographic Exploration of Border Securitization in a High Population Density Context

博士论文研究：边境秩序：高人口密度背景下边境安全化的民族志探索

• 批准号: 1357163
• 负责人: Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan
• 金额: $ 1.85万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-01 至 2015-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1357163&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Borderland; Orders

Shana Ghosh, under the supervision of Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan at Yale University explores how newly established borderlands transform social, cultural, and economic relationships and influence cross-border activities. The project asks how the securitization of previously porous borders impacts regional economic networks and affects the daily lives and livelihoods of borderland residents. The research takes place along the border of India and Bangladesh, a 4,000 km long border which India has recently taken the initiative to fence and guard. This is an appropriate site for this study since securitization is taking place within a densely populated area. Most studies of borderlands have tended to regard borders as landscapes of defense or as zones of criminality, rather than as places characterized by the mobility and circulation that one might find in densely populated areas. This project focuses on the new economies and relationships that emerge in an area of the world that has been transitioning to democracy and free trade. The researcher will conduct 16 months of ethnographic research combining participant observation with interviews, life histories, network mapping, and focus group discussions with residents of this borderland, border security forces, and local administrative officials of both countries. The research will focus on northern Bengal, and be based in Coochbehar district, India and Lalmonirhat district, Bangladesh. The wide range of research methods and informants will provide a rich account of participation in transborder movements for familial, religious, and economic reasons.The project critically engages with the existing assumptions about cross-border movements to uncover how and why people and goods move, to illuminate debates and values on mobility, citizenship, and security from the points of view of those who reside in this borderland and experience its securitization daily. It will contribute to scientific debates about the relationships between states, the social practices and structures that undergird cross-border activities, and debates about migration, resettlement, and transnationalism. The project's findings will be of great benefit to policymakers and practitioners concerned with understanding how the role socioeconomic stability, migration and trade play in areas of the world that are democractizing. The project also provides for the training of a graduate student.

Shana Ghosh在耶鲁大学Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan的监督下，探讨了新建立的边境地区如何改变社会，文化和经济关系并影响跨境活动。该项目探讨了以前漏洞百出的边界的安全化如何影响区域经济网络，并影响边境居民的日常生活和生计。这项研究沿着印度和孟加拉国的边界进行，印度最近主动在这条4,000公里长的边界上设置了围栏和警卫。由于证券化是在人口稠密的地区进行的，因此这是进行本研究的适当地点。大多数关于边疆的研究都倾向于将边疆视为防御景观或犯罪区，而不是人口稠密地区的流动和流通地区。该项目的重点是在世界上一个正在向民主和自由贸易过渡的地区出现的新经济和关系。研究人员将进行为期16个月的民族志研究，将参与者观察与访谈，生活史，网络绘图以及与边境居民，边境安全部队和两国地方行政官员的焦点小组讨论相结合。该研究将侧重于孟加拉北方，并在印度库奇贝哈尔区和孟加拉国拉尔莫尼哈特区进行。广泛的研究方法和信息提供者将提供一个参与跨境流动的家庭，宗教和经济原因的丰富帐户。该项目批判性地参与了现有的假设跨境流动，以揭示如何和为什么人和货物移动，照亮辩论和价值观的流动性，公民身份，和安全的观点，从那些谁居住在这个边疆和经验，其安全化的日常。它将有助于对国家之间的关系，支持跨境活动的社会实践和结构的科学辩论，以及关于移民，重新安置和跨国主义的辩论。该项目的研究结果将极大地有益于关心了解社会经济稳定、移徙和贸易在世界民主化地区所起作用的决策者和从业者。该项目还规定培训一名研究生。