Doctoral Dissertation Research: Incarceration, Ethics, and Nonviolence

博士论文研究：监禁、伦理与非暴力

• 批准号: 1729065
• 负责人: Naveeda Khan
• 金额: $ 1.66万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1729065&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Incarceration; Ethics

The research supported by this award will investigate the taking on of ethical choices and non-violent identities under conditions of confinement. From airport security lines and waiting rooms to mass incarceration, confinement has become entrenched in everyday life. The researcher will focus on what happens when life under confinement is not reduced to either defiance or compliance. The goal is to understand if ethical solutions, rather than intensifying rules or surveillance techniques, can solve crisis-level problems, such as cycles of rage and violence. To investigate this question, the researcher will focus on the extreme example of prisons, taking advantage of the research opportunity offered by the introduction of "faith and character-based programs" across Alabama state prisons. The research will be conducted by Johns Hopkins University anthropology doctoral student, Thomas Thornton, with guidance from Dr. Naveeda Khan, inside a maximum-security prison faith dorm. Through ethnographic fieldwork grounded in long-term observations, interviews, and engagement with prison and chaplaincy personnel, the researcher will pursue three overarching questions: How does penal compliance connect to an ethics of nonviolence? How is nonviolence effectively encouraged through textual study? How is nonviolence cultivated and embodied by the prisoners? By studying how faith is practiced among male inmates, the researcher's project will examine the micro-processes through which nonviolent life is fostered, even adjacent to the perpetual presence of violence. Findings from this research will contribute to prison policy discussions among scholars, legislators, and the general public.

该奖项支持的研究将调查在监禁条件下的道德选择和非暴力身份。从机场安检线和等候室到大规模监禁，监禁已成为日常生活中根深蒂固的现象。研究人员将重点关注当被监禁的生活没有减少到反抗或服从时会发生什么。我们的目标是了解道德解决方案，而不是强化规则或监视技术，是否可以解决危机级别的问题，如愤怒和暴力的循环。为了调查这个问题，研究人员将集中在监狱的极端例子，利用研究机会，介绍了“信仰和性格为基础的计划”在亚拉巴马州监狱。这项研究将由约翰霍普金斯大学人类学博士生托马斯桑顿在Naveeda Khan博士的指导下在一个最高安全级别的监狱信仰宿舍内进行。通过长期观察，访谈和与监狱和牧师人员的接触接地民族志实地考察，研究人员将追求三个首要问题：如何遵守刑法连接到非暴力的道德？如何通过文本研究有效地鼓励非暴力？非暴力是如何被囚犯培养和体现的？通过研究男性囚犯如何实践信仰，研究人员的项目将研究非暴力生活的微观过程，甚至接近暴力的永久存在。 本研究的结果将有助于学者、立法者和公众之间的监狱政策讨论。