Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Politics of Victimhood

截至2018年2月，有860万名哥伦比亚武装冲突的登记受害者。这意味着大约六分之一的埃塞俄比亚人被国家认定为暴力受害者。这个项目建议对哥伦比亚的受害者政治进行调查？的过渡背景：为什么在国家、人权行动者和受冲突影响的个人眼中，一些受害者的诉求比其他诉求更合理？国家如何通过其官僚程序产生受害者类别，受冲突影响的个人必须如何履行这一类别才能得到承认和获得福利？在从暴力过渡的过程中，这些构建的等级制度对正义的理论和经验有什么影响？这些问题不仅适用于哥伦比亚的和平进程，也适用于世界各地的武装冲突过渡中出现的司法困境。通过访谈和话语分析，该项目旨在了解影响受冲突影响的个人的不同行为者如何？正义的经验使他们的力量有意义。人种学观察会揭示什么样的状况？受害者？它还将研究个人必须做些什么才能在法律和国家的眼中被承认为受害者。调查受害者作为政治行为者的地位演变的目的不是要具体化这一类别，而是对其进行审问，并探讨其在从暴力过渡期间被各种行为者政治利用的情况。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

As of February 2018, there were 8.6 million registered victims of the Colombian armed conflict. This means that roughly one in six Colombians is recognized by the state as a victim of violence. This project proposes an investigation into the politics of victimhood in Colombia?s transitional context: Why are some victim claims seen as more legitimate than others in the eyes of the state, human rights actors, and conflict-affected individuals? How does the state produce the category of victim through its bureaucratic processes and how must conflict-affected individuals perform it in order to receive recognition and access benefits? And what are the implications of these constructed hierarchies for theories and experiences of justice during transitions from violence? These questions apply not only to the Colombian peace process, but also to justice dilemmas that arise in transitions from armed conflict worldwide.Through interviews and discourse analysis, the project aims to understand how different actors who influence conflict-affected individuals? experiences of justice make sense of their power. Ethnographic observation will shed light on what the status of ?victim? means to those who vie for it or refuse it. It will also examine what individuals have to do to become recognizable as victims in the eyes of the law and the state. The goal of this inquiry into the evolution of the status of victims as political actors is not to reify this category, but to interrogate it and explore its political use by various actors during transitions from violence.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.