Doctoral Dissertation Research: State Violence and the Struggle for Life

这项研究解决了社会科学研究中的几个重要问题，特别是政治学。首先，它通过详细分析妇女和妇女--来自边缘化群体的积极分子--的经历，从政治学的角度看待国家和亲密暴力问题。其次，这项研究将质疑围绕黑人女性的沉默是理解黑人政治的关键因素。这种沉默有助于延续关于种族、性别、暴力以及政治思想、行动和正义方面的公共/私人分歧的日常假设。这项研究将记录新的趋势，并展示性别和种族如何以及为什么在解决国家暴力问题方面发挥关键作用。特别是，这项研究将拓宽国家暴力数据收集的类别，其中可以纳入了解被种族边缘化的妇女如何经历和理解国家暴力的重要性。这项工作可以作为建立更好的国际、国家和地方应对措施的参考，使国家和机构对暴力和不公正负责，从而有助于为所有人创造一个更加民主和公正的社会。此外，这项研究的结果将与这两个组织分享，为实地工作提供依据。此外，这项研究的结果有助于满足分配正义和支持非洲人后裔妇女的需要，以及继续研究反黑人和国家暴力的性别问题。反黑人州的暴力是整个美洲普遍存在的问题。研究这一现象的性别层面的新兴学术重新探讨了反黑人州暴力和针对妇女的暴力之间的联系。这部作品借鉴了悠久的作品思想，审视了国家渗透、侵犯和控制黑人女性身体、家庭和家庭亲密领域的方式。因此，本项目研究亲密关系在反黑人暴力和黑人动员的当代表现中的作用。基于对非裔巴西人和非裔哥伦比亚人的原创民族志见解，本文提出了三个论点。首先，国家暴力侵犯私人空间：家庭和人际关系--因此，这是一种亲密暴力。其次，当黑人女性讲述这些暴力行为时，她们发展了一种理解国家的新方式：她们展示了国家是如何通过亲密侵犯的方式[重新]构成的。因此，虽然黑人妇女的描述揭示了国家暴力的亲密方式，但她们的声音和组织也表明，这些空间是创造新形式的知识和抵抗的重要场所。第三，黑人妇女关于反黑人暴力的经历往往是通过集体镜头来阐述和解释的，在这种情况下，黑人妇女不仅使用亲密的语言来描述国家暴力的经历，而且还[重新]主张亲密关系的领域，以增强她们自己、她们的家庭和她们的社区的能力。这些结果导致了一种集体亲密的政治，这提供了一种抵制国家暴力的方式，追究社区和家庭成员的责任，并展望国家以外的正义。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This research addresses several significant questions in social science research and political science in particular. First, it brings a political science perspective to the issue of state and intimate violence by providing a detailed analysis of the experiences of women and women-activists from a marginalized group. Second, this research will contest the silences surrounding Black women as key actors for understanding Black Politics. Such silences help to perpetuate everyday assumptions about race, gender, violence and the public/private divide with regards to political thinking, action, and justice. The research will document new trends and demonstrate how, and why, gender and race are pivotal in addressing the issue of state violence. In particular, this research will broaden categories for data collection for state violence, which can incorporate the importance of understanding how racially marginalized women experience and understand state violence. This work can be a point of reference for creating better international, national, and local responses that hold states and institutions accountable for violence and injustice, which could therefore help to create a more democratic and just society for all. In addition, the results of this study will be shared with the two organizations with that provide the basis of the fieldwork. In addition, the results of this study can help to address the needs for distributive justice and support for Afro-descendant women as well as for continued research on the topic of gendered anti-blackness and state violence. Anti-Black state violence is a pervasive problem throughout the Americas. Emerging scholarship examining the gendered dimensions of this phenomenon revisit the links between anti-Black state violence and violence against women. This body of work draws on the long history of work thought examining the ways that the state infiltrates, violates, and controls black women's intimate spheres of the body, the home, and the family. As such, this project examines the role of intimacy in contemporary manifestations of anti-black violence and Black mobilizations. Drawing on original ethnographic insights from Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Colombian women, this dissertation posits three arguments. First, state violence invades intimate spaces: the home and relationships--and is, therefore, a form of intimate violence. Second, when Black women narrate these acts of violence, they develop a new way of understanding the state: they show how the state is [re]constituted by means of intimate violations. Thus while Black women's accounts unveil the ways in which state violence is intimate, their voices and organizing also demonstrate how these spaces are important sites for creating new forms of knowledge and resistance. Third, Black women's experiences with anti-black violence are often articulated and interpreted through a collective lens, whereby Black women not only use a language of intimacy to describe experiences with state violence, but also [re]claim domains of the intimate to empower themselves, their families, and their communities. these result in a politic of collective intimacy, which provides a way to resist state violence, hold community and family members accountable, and envision justice beyond the state.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.