Doctoral Dissertation Research: Consumer Citizenship Among Internally Displaced Persons

博士论文研究：国内流离失所者的消费者公民身份

• 批准号: 1729158
• 负责人: Sarah Phillips
• 金额: $ 1.75万
• 依托单位: Indiana 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=1729158&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Consumer; Citizenship

The research supported by this award investigates the politics, routes of circulation, and patterns of consumption of material aid given to displaced people. This project asks three sets of research questions: (1) Aid provision: How do governments interpret and protect the social rights of its displaced citizens through the distribution of aid? What is the role of non-state aid providers in these processes? (2) Aid consumption: What kind of bureaucratic procedures do internally displaced people (IDPs) navigate to qualify for aid? How do IDPs consume material assistance? How does aid reinforce or dismantle IDPs' ideas about the state and belonging? (3) Aid circulation: Does the value of humanitarian aid change in the process of its circulation? What meanings does aid accrue in contexts of political ambivalence? The research is important because displacement is one of the biggest and fast-growing challenges in the contemporary world. While humanitarian aid in the wake of displacement is an entrenched feature of the modern world, including American foreign policy, the full range of effects is not well documented. Findings will be useful to policy makers concerned with making aid more effective and to social scientists building theories of the material aspects of contemporary citizenship.The research will be conducted by Indiana University anthropology doctoral student Tetiana Bulakh, under the supervision of Dr. Sarah Phillips, focusing on IDPs in the Ukraine. This is an appropriate site because the Ukraine has one of the highest IDP populations in the world. The researcher will focus on officials who develop IDP policies, representatives of international organizations, local volunteers, and IDPs and their social networks. She will collect data using a mixed-methods approach, including interviews, participant observation, "social biographies" or tracking of aid objects, aid-focused interviews, projective tests, and analysis of archival documents related to IDP policy.

该奖项支持的研究调查了向流离失所者提供的物资援助的政治、流通路线和消费模式。本项目提出了三组研究问题：(1)援助提供：政府如何通过分配援助来解释和保护其流离失所公民的社会权利？在这些过程中，非国家援助提供者的作用是什么？(2)援助消费：国内流离失所者（IDPs）需要经过什么样的官僚程序才能有资格获得援助？国内流离失所者如何使用物质援助？援助是如何强化或摧毁国内流离失所者对国家和归属感的观念的？(3)援助流通：人道主义援助的价值是否在流通过程中发生变化？在政治矛盾的背景下，援助产生了什么意义？这项研究很重要，因为流离失所是当今世界最大、增长最快的挑战之一。虽然流离失所之后的人道主义援助是现代世界的一个根深蒂固的特征，包括美国的外交政策，但其全面的影响并没有得到很好的记录。研究结果将有助于决策者使援助更有效，并有助于社会科学家建立当代公民的物质方面的理论。这项研究将由印第安纳大学人类学博士生Tetiana Bulakh在Sarah Phillips博士的指导下进行，重点关注乌克兰的国内流离失所者。这是一个合适的地点，因为乌克兰是世界上国内流离失所者人数最多的国家之一。研究人员将重点关注制定国内流离失所者政策的官员、国际组织代表、当地志愿者、国内流离失所者及其社会网络。她将采用混合方法收集数据，包括访谈、参与观察、“社会传记”或追踪援助对象、以援助为重点的访谈、投影测试和分析与国内流离失所者政策有关的档案文件。