Reparations for colonial soldiers in France, Great Britain and the United States. National movements and transnational dimensions.

对法国、英国和美国殖民地士兵的赔偿。

• 批准号: 224560331
• 负责人: Dr. Barbara Laubenthal
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: The University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2011-12-31 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/224560331?language=en
• 关键词: Reparations; colonial; soldiers; France; Great

This comparative research project focuses on the reasons for the recent emergence of movements in France, Great Britain and the United States demanding reparations for colonial veterans. Despite their important contribution to the war effort, until the turn of the century colonial soldiers were largely ignored by European and US historiographers of the SecondWorld War and by national remembrance policies. Recently, however, former soldiers from Senegal, Nepal and the Philippines have successfully claimed material compensations and/or residence rights in the former colonial states. What factors have encouraged the parallel emergence of similar reparation movements in differing national contexts? Does the emergence of these successful reparation movements reflect the increasing influence of universal global norms and transnational actors on the political process in the nation state, or are these movements the results of national revisions of the colonial past and firmly rooted in national politics? The project will address these questions with three comparative country studies and with a mix of qualitative methods. Its aim is to present a new model of transnational politics of the past.

这一比较研究项目的重点是最近在法国、英国和美国出现的要求对殖民地退伍军人进行赔偿的运动的原因。尽管他们对战争的努力做出了重要贡献，但直到世纪之交，殖民地士兵在很大程度上被欧洲和美国二战历史学家以及国家纪念政策所忽视。然而，最近，来自塞内加尔、尼泊尔和菲律宾的前士兵成功地要求得到物质补偿和/或在前殖民国家的居住权。哪些因素促使在不同国家背景下同时出现类似的赔偿运动？这些成功的赔偿运动的出现是否反映了普遍的全球规范和跨国行为体对民族国家政治进程的影响力越来越大，或者这些运动是国家对殖民历史的修正的结果，并牢固地扎根于国家政治？该项目将通过三项比较性国别研究和各种定性方法来解决这些问题。其目的是提出一个新的模式，跨国政治的过去。

项目成果

Colonial memories and transnational mobilizations: Asia’s colonial veterans and their struggle for British citizenship, c. 1980–2015

殖民记忆与跨国动员：亚洲殖民老兵及其争取英国公民身份的斗争，约 1980 年至 2015 年

• DOI: 10.1177/1750698018784113
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: Memory Studies
• 影响因子: 1.1
• 作者: Laubenthal;Barbara;Schumacher;Daniel
• 通讯作者: Daniel