Doctoral Dissertation Research: Intergenerational Memory Practices and Social Transformation

博士论文研究：代际记忆实践与社会转型

• 批准号: 1948744
• 负责人: Jennifer Cole
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 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: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1948744&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Intergenerational; Memory

Over the past several decades, intergenerational memory and trauma have become key terms in debates about post-conflict recovery. Originally conceptualized as an experience so shocking it cannot be integrated into a subject's conscious memory, trauma now refers to extra-ordinarily painful experiences, or wounds to memory, which profoundly shape both collective and individual identity. Victims of violence and their descendants have mobilized both psychological and neurobiological arguments about trauma to gain social recognition, as well as access psychosocial and material resources. However, commonsense understandings of intergenerational memory and trauma are largely based on a narrow set of paradigmatic studies of mass-violence. This project tests whether that selection bias impedes the efficacy of those claims. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, the project would enhance scientific understanding by broadly disseminating its findings to organizations invested in the use of evidence-based media production to understand and inform post-crisis community interventions.Zoe Berman, under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Cole of the University of Chicago will explore whether, and if so, to what extent, different sociohistorical conditions shape the ways in which memories and trauma are experienced and shared. How do understandings of historic violence, mental health, and social difference evolve after conflict? What practices enable individual and collective resolution after violence, and how do these practices change over time? The researcher will explore such questions through an ethnographic investigation of intergenerational memory practices, trauma, and social antagonism in a post-conflict context. Over 15 months, using a range of ethnographic and linguistic techniques of data collection and analysis (including interviews, participant observation, archival analysis, and collaborative interpretation), she will track the work of official and unofficial memory practices within and across three multi-generational youth-focused organizations, as well as in popular media and at the level of policy. Exploring how memories and trauma are evoked and made relevant to different contexts, the researcher will investigate whether a range of normative and structural social relationships are reproduced or re-imagined through practices of remembering.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.

在过去的几十年里，代际记忆和创伤已经成为关于冲突后恢复的辩论中的关键术语。创伤最初被概念化为一种如此令人震惊的经历，以至于无法融入受试者的有意识记忆中，现在指的是异常痛苦的经历，或记忆的创伤，它们深刻地塑造了集体和个人的身份。暴力受害者及其后代动员了关于创伤的心理和神经生物学论点，以获得社会承认，并获得心理社会和物质资源。然而，对代际记忆和创伤的常识理解在很大程度上是基于对大规模暴力的一系列狭窄的范例研究。这个项目测试了这种选择偏见是否会阻碍这些主张的有效性。除了为人类学研究生提供经验、科学数据收集和分析方法方面的培训提供资金外，该项目还将通过向投资于以证据为基础的媒体制作的组织广泛传播其发现来加强科学理解，以了解和告知危机后的社区干预。佐伊·伯曼将在芝加哥大学的詹妮弗·科尔博士的指导下，探索不同的社会历史条件是否以及在何种程度上影响记忆和创伤的经历和分享的方式。冲突后，人们对历史上的暴力、心理健康和社会差异的理解是如何演变的？哪些做法能够在暴力后实现个人和集体解决，这些做法如何随着时间的推移而变化？研究人员将通过对冲突后背景下的代际记忆实践、创伤和社会对抗进行人种学调查来探索这些问题。在15个月的时间里，她将利用各种人种学和语言学的数据收集和分析技术(包括访谈、参与者观察、档案分析和协作解释)，跟踪三个以青年为重点的多代组织以及大众媒体和政策一级的正式和非官方记忆做法的工作。研究人员将探索记忆和创伤是如何被唤起并与不同背景相关的，研究人员将调查一系列规范和结构性社会关系是否通过记忆实践被复制或重新想象。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。