Doctoral Dissertation Research: State Violence and the Struggle for Life

博士论文研究：国家暴力与生存斗争

• 批准号: 1747432
• 负责人: Linda Zerilli
• 金额: $ 1.89万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-15 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1747432&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; State; Violence

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.

这项研究特别解决了社会科学研究和政治学中的几个重要问题。首先，它通过对边缘群体的妇女和妇女活动家的经历进行详细分析，从政治学的角度来看待国家暴力和亲密暴力问题。其次，这项研究将对围绕黑人女性作为理解黑人政治的关键角色的沉默提出质疑。这种沉默有助于维持关于种族、性别、暴力以及政治思维、行动和正义方面的公共/私人分歧的日常假设。该研究将记录新趋势，并展示性别和种族如何以及为何在解决国家暴力问题中发挥关键作用。 特别是，这项研究将扩大国家暴力数据收集的类别，其中可以纳入了解种族边缘化妇女如何经历和理解国家暴力的重要性。这项工作可以作为制定更好的国际、国家和地方应对措施的参考点，让国家和机构对暴力和不公正负责，从而有助于为所有人创建一个更加民主和公正的社会。此外，这项研究的结果将与两个组织分享，为实地工作提供基础。此外，这项研究的结果有助于满足分配正义和支持非洲裔妇女的需求，以及对性别反黑人和国家暴力主题的持续研究。反黑人国家暴力是整个美洲普遍存在的问题。新兴学术研究这种现象的性别维度，重新审视反黑人国家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工作思想历史，审视了国家渗透、侵犯和控制黑人女性的身体、家庭和家庭等私密领域的方式。因此，该项目探讨了亲密关系在当代反黑人暴力和黑人动员表现中的作用。本文借鉴非裔巴西和非裔哥伦比亚妇女的原始人种学见解，提出了三个论点。首先，国家暴力侵入亲密空间：家庭和人际关系，因此是亲密暴力的一种形式。其次，当黑人妇女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来[重新]构成的。因此，虽然黑人妇女的叙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如何成为创造新形式的知识和抵抗的重要场所。第三，黑人妇女的反黑人暴力经历往往是通过集体视角来阐述和解释的，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]主张亲密的领域，以赋予自己、家人和社区权力。 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.