The “Just City” and the Violence of Ethics in (Anti-Trump) Protests (New York City)

“正义之城”和（反特朗普）抗议中的道德暴力（纽约市）

• 批准号: 264019884
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Moritz Ege
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Sozialanthropologie und Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (ISEK) Ethnologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/264019884?language=en
• 关键词: Just; City; Violence; Ethics; Anti

Based on the research project “Moscow: Urban Ethics of Protest and the Violence of Ethics”, this new project takes current protests in New York City against the government of President Trump as its point of departure. These protests will be researched ethnographically in order to better understand the dynamics that develop between, on the one hand, protesters and groups who aim to fight specific political representatives and figures, and, on the other hand, those whose demands primarily concern their own interests. Following a terminology that is widespread in Moscow, we provisionally term the former “political” and the latter “social protests”. These protests take place within a context of increasing critiques (and self-critique) of ‘voluntarist’ urban ethical actors and their projects that are connected to authoritarian populisms, which coincide with stark social inequalities and also with neoliberal forms of governance. In order to approach these matters, we chose arenas of contact and conflict in which the contradictions of such protests can be observed in a condensed form. These are:(a) protest alliances against the Trump presidency. Here, models of political representation that are characteristic of the liberal left and more radical, empowerment-oriented approaches come together performatively, especially in reference to a “good”, inclusive city;(b) a Community Center which tries to balance fighting for the rights of marginalized groups – in the name of a “just city” – and administering social welfare policies. Here, the “common interest” of urban groups who are marginalized and precarious in different ways, and alliances between them are constantly being negotiated and contested;(c) labor struggles that partly make common cause with anti-Trump protests but also at times stand in a conflictual relationship with them. Analytically, the project is interested in: (1) strategies for achieving and maintaining the common interests and consensus in protests and between protests; (2) concomitant contradictions, dissent and tensions; (3) connections between these matters and ideals of a good and just city; (4) the ways in which people in protest movements approach and contest public “figurations” that circulate in media discourses on protests, i.e. privileged, “ethical” urban liberals, minorities oriented to identity-politics and a resentful, white working class.The project’s goal is to better understand the forms, functions and effects of current urban protest practices and to situate them in urban research and also in relationship to a specific historical conjuncture. In order to further develop the concepts of urban and protest research, the case study will highlight the connections between urban-ethical protests, technologies of governance, imaginations of justice and of the city, constructions of ethical urban subjects and the forms of power and violence in which they are embedded.

这个新项目以“莫斯科：抗议的城市伦理和道德的暴力”研究项目为基础，以当前纽约市针对特朗普总统政府的抗议活动为出发点。这些抗议活动将进行人种学研究，以便更好地理解抗议者和旨在打击特定政治代表和人物的团体之间的动态发展，另一方面，那些要求主要关注自己利益的人。按照莫斯科普遍使用的术语，我们暂时将前者称为“政治抗议”，将后者称为“社会抗议”。这些抗议活动发生在越来越多的批评（和自我批评）的背景下，“唯意志论”的城市道德行为者和他们的项目与威权民粹主义有关，这与严重的社会不平等和新自由主义的治理形式相吻合。为了处理这些问题，我们选择了接触和冲突的场所，在那里可以以浓缩的形式观察到这种抗议的矛盾。它们是：(a)反对特朗普总统任期的抗议联盟。在这里，具有自由左派特征的政治代表模式和更激进的、以赋权为导向的方法在表现上结合在一起，特别是在提及一个“好”的、包容性的城市时；(b)一个社区中心，以“正义城市”的名义争取边缘群体的权利，同时管理社会福利政策。在这里，以不同方式被边缘化和不稳定的城市群体的“共同利益”，以及他们之间的联盟不断地被协商和争夺；(c)在一定程度上与反特朗普抗议活动有共同事业的劳工斗争，但有时也与他们处于冲突关系。分析而言，本项目感兴趣的是：(1)在抗议活动中以及抗议活动之间实现和维持共同利益和共识的战略；(2)伴随而来的矛盾、异议和紧张；(3)这些问题与建立一个善良、公正的城市的理想之间的联系；(4)抗议运动中的人们如何接近和挑战在媒体关于抗议的话语中流传的公共“形象”，即享有特权的、“有道德的”城市自由主义者、以身份政治为导向的少数民族和怨恨的白人工人阶级。该项目的目标是更好地理解当前城市抗议实践的形式、功能和影响，并将其置于城市研究中，并与特定的历史时刻联系起来。为了进一步发展城市和抗议研究的概念，案例研究将突出城市伦理抗议、治理技术、对正义和城市的想象、城市伦理主体的构建以及它们所嵌入的权力和暴力形式之间的联系。