Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Sociolegal Dynamics of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Marginalized Communities

本研究探讨了少数群体社区内替代性争端解决机制的作用。本研究专门调查不同的替代司法机构与不同的法律的和文化的观点，为什么和人们如何使用这些法外系统，以及这些司法机构是如何监管和互动的国家。 除了支持博士生的培训外，该提案还将与从事替代性纠纷解决的法律的从业人员、民间社会组织和社区活动家分享。本研究探讨了导致使用替代性司法机构的人将这些机构所作决定视为具有约束力的因素，以及赋予这些替代性司法机构合法性的文化和法律的动态，通过对两个显著不同的社会法律背景的受控分析和比较。还提出了关于社会和文化网络形成的更广泛的问题，以及这些问题在不同的少数群体社区之间是否存在差异。本研究的民族志方法包括参与观察，半结构化访谈和档案研究，以探讨为什么人们转向替代司法机构，这些机构和国家如何互动，以及不同的边缘化群体，如妇女和难民，如何使用这些替代渠道来导航性别，正义和国家的动态。通过调查少数群体如何在日常生活中谈判寻求正义的替代方式，该项目有助于法律人类学，国家人类学以及性别和宗教人类学。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。

This research examines the role of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms within minority communities. This research specifically investigates diverse alternative judicial bodies with different legal and cultural outlooks why and how people use these extralegal systems, and how these judicial bodies are regulated by and interact with the state. In addition to supporting the training of a doctoral student, the proposal will be shared with legal practitioners, civil society organizations, and community activists working in alternative dispute resolution.This research examines the factors that lead people who use alternative justice bodies to view the decisions made by those bodies as binding and the cultural and legal dynamics that give these alternative judicial bodies their legitimacy, through a controlled analysis and comparison of two significant different sociolegal contexts. Broader questions are also asked about social and cultural network formation, and whether these vary between different minority communities. Ethnographic methods for this research include participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and archival research to explore why people turn to alternative judicial bodies, how these bodies and the state interact, and how different marginalized groups, such as women and refugees, use these alternative channels to navigate the dynamics of gender, justice, and the state. By investigating how minority groups negotiate alternative ways of seeking justice in their daily lives, this project contributes to the anthropology of law, anthropology of the state, and anthropology of gender and religion.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.