Doctoral Dissertation Research: Historical Memory, Temporality, and Cultural Identity

管理人类集体内部和之间的社会差异，对决策和公民参与构成了独特的挑战。关于差异的社会建构观念继续对个人如何互动产生强大的影响。然而，尽管社会科学家和历史学家已经将他性的概念与历史上的事件和过程联系起来，但很少有实证研究关注日常行为者本身如何参与在日常社会生活过程中建立身份与历史之间的联系。因此，本研究项目询问时间变化或连续性的普通经验如何塑造关于文化和民族身份的想法，以及这些个人和集体身份的转变概念如何反过来影响历史叙事的文化意义。本项目以非正规经济场所为研究对象，对学生进行实证的、科学的数据收集和分析方法的培训。博士生耶稣古铁雷斯，监督查尔斯布里格斯在加州大学伯克利分校，将探讨如何社会差异的概念是由时间性，记忆和历史的概念介导。这项研究将在巴西南部进行，这是一个理想的地点，因为这是一个关于种族的想法已经在告知公众对民族归属感和当地历史的态度方面有所体现的背景。作为一个案例研究，研究将集中在一个艺术家网络，他们在波尔图阿莱格雷市从事各种流行和外来艺术形式的工作。通过研究方法，包括参与观察，媒体和文件分析，网络映射，和民族志访谈，研究人员将检查种族的意义和历史元素在每个艺术家的工艺和社会生活中的出现。通过与近距离观众，客户和政府官员的广泛民族志接触，他将确定艺术品和表演的流通如何参与改变种族和民族认同的观念，这些观念远远超出了个人和地方。这项研究的结果将促进科学和大众对历史、种族和民族认同之间关系的理解，它将有助于产生更精确的历史和社会理论，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进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

The management of social differences within and across human collectives has posed unique challenges for policymaking and civic participation. Socially constructed ideas about difference continue to exert a powerful influence on how individuals interact. However, although social scientists and historians have connected notions of alterity to events and processes in the historical past, few empirical studies have paid attention to how everyday actors themselves participate in making links between identity and history over the course of daily social life. Accordingly, this research project asks how the ordinary experience of temporal change or continuity shape ideas about cultural and national identity, and how these shifting notions of individual and collective identity in turn impact the cultural significance of historical narratives. This project, which trains a student in methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, conducts a case study of informal economic site. Doctoral student Jesus Gutierrez, supervised by Charles Briggs at the University of California-Berkeley, will explore how notions of social difference are mediated by conceptions of temporality, memory, and history. The research will take place in southern Brazil, an ideal site as this is a context where ideas about race have been pronounced in informing public attitudes toward national belonging and local history. As a case study, the research will be focused around a network of artists who work across a variety of popular and outsider art forms in the city of Porto Alegre. Through research methods that include participant observation, media and document analysis, network mapping, and ethnographic interviews, the researcher will examine both the significance of race and the emergence of historical elements in each artist's craft and social life. Through extended ethnographic engagement with proximate audiences, customers and government officials, he will determine how the circulation of artworks and performances participates in shifting perceptions of racial and national identity that reach far beyond the individual and the local. Findings from this research will advance scientific and popular understandings of the relationship between history, race and national identity, and it will contribute to the production of more precise theories about the historical and socio-political significance of folk art forms around the globe.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.