Doctoral Dissertation Research: Transitional Justice and State Intervention in Kinship

长期以来，政府和家庭之间的关系一直很复杂。在国家管理家庭构成的程度和方式以及对家庭活动施加的限制方面，在不同的背景下存在显著差异。这个博士论文研究项目利用过渡时期的司法作为查询家庭如何应对政府政策的变化调节其结构和功能的一种方式。它补充了试图通过关注家庭如何应对政府干预和政策来理解政府为何监管亲属关系的研究。具体而言，本研究通过关注幸存者家庭在过渡司法程序中的经历，为将亲属关系与国家联系起来的社会科学理论做出了贡献。除了支持研究生的培训外，本研究的发现还广泛传播给学术、非学术和利益相关者受众。过渡时期司法提供了一个机会来了解过去的家庭不满的国家裁决如何影响家庭关系和活动。在此背景下，本博士论文研究提出了以下问题：1)过渡时期司法法院如何决定哪些家庭的冤情是值得的，他们收集了哪些证据来支持判决？2)家庭关系和活动如何受到政府关于家庭申诉的决定的影响？为了回答这些问题，调查人员进行了一项多地点的民族志研究，包括半结构化访谈、参与者观察和档案分析。通过这样做，这项博士研究通过在暴力背景下对这些关系的询问提供更细致入微的理论，为国家与家庭之间关系的社会科学研究做出了贡献。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

The relationship between governments and families has long been complex. There is significant variation across contexts in the extent to which and in what ways states govern what constitutes a family and the limits imposed on family activities. This doctoral dissertation research project leverages transitional justice as a way of querying how families respond to changes in governmental policies regulating their structures and functions. It complements research that attempts to understand why governments regulate kinship by focusing instead on how families respond to governmental interventions and policies. Specifically, this research contributes to social scientific theories that relate kinship to the state by focusing on the survivor families’ experiences of transitional justice procedures. In addition to supporting the training of a graduate student, the findings of this research are disseminated broadly to academic, non-academic, and stakeholder audiences.Transitional justice offers an opportunity to understand how state adjudication of past familial grievances impacts family relationships and activities. In this context, this doctoral dissertation research poses the following questions: 1) How do transitional justice courts decide which families' grievances are merited and what evidence do they muster to support decisions? 2) How are family relationships and activities affected by government decisions regarding claims of familial grievances? To answer these questions, the investigators conduct a multi-sited ethnographic study involving semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and archival analysis. In so doing, this doctoral research contributes to social science studies on the relationships between states and families by providing more nuanced theory via interrogation of these relationships in contexts marked by 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.