Doctoral Dissertation Research: Labor and Livelihoods within Militarized Communities

博士论文研究：军事化社区内的劳动和生计

• 批准号: 2049185
• 负责人: Marina Welker
• 金额: $ 2.22万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-01 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049185&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Labor; Livelihoods

Soldiers are a critical part of the labor force in militarized communities. Anthropological theories about the work of soldiers often focus on the risk and uncertainty associated with conflicts affecting them and the related effects on the human experience and social lives. However, being a soldier also provides stable employment and provides new social relationships within communities that are offset from other aspects of daily life. How do these social relationships affect the experience of being a soldier? Does the everyday labor of being a soldier provide experiences that are distinct from those associated with active conflict? This doctoral dissertation project synthesizes theory from economic anthropology and the anthropology of social structure to investigate the tensions between stability and risk inherent to the military experience and its effects on livelihoods in conflict zones. It trains a U.S.-based graduate student in anthropological theory and methods and involves extensive dissemination of findings for scholarly and non-scholarly audiences. Specifically, this doctoral dissertation project examines the lives and livelihoods of paid soldiers in militarized communities. Through ethnographic observation and life history interviews of soldiers where they reside and work, this project investigates how being a soldier contributes to household labor and the activities that soldiers pursue to enhance their job performance or retreat from daily stressors. It asks whether soldiers’ social networks inside and outside of the military context affect their understandings of labor, for example, and how the labor of being a soldier in turn alters those networks. By considering the way militarized social and economic spaces provide possibilities for certain forms of work and social relationships to be pursued, this project not only provides a novel approach to the study of security, but also contributes to social scientific studies of political economy and gender.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.

士兵是军事化社区劳动力的重要组成部分。关于士兵工作的人类学理论往往侧重于与影响他们的冲突有关的风险和不确定性，以及对人类经验和社会生活的相关影响。然而，当兵也提供了稳定的就业，并在社区内提供了新的社会关系，与日常生活的其他方面相抵消。这些社会关系如何影响当兵的经历？作为一名士兵的日常劳动是否提供了与积极冲突相关的体验不同的体验？这个博士论文项目综合了经济人类学和社会结构人类学的理论，以调查军事经验固有的稳定和风险之间的紧张关系及其对冲突地区生计的影响。它训练了一个美国-人类学理论和方法的研究生，并涉及为学术和非学术受众广泛传播研究结果。具体来说，这个博士论文项目研究了军事化社区中有偿士兵的生活和生计。通过民族志观察和生活史采访的士兵，他们居住和工作，该项目调查如何成为一名士兵有助于家庭劳动和活动，士兵追求提高他们的工作表现或从日常压力撤退。例如，它询问士兵在军事背景内外的社交网络是否影响他们对劳动的理解，以及作为一名士兵的劳动如何反过来改变这些网络。通过考虑军事化的社会和经济空间为追求某些形式的工作和社会关系提供可能性的方式，该项目不仅为安全研究提供了一种新的方法，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估来支持。影响审查标准。