Many Moving Parts: Continuity, Disruption and Change in Global Humanitarian Aid Relations

诸多变化因素：全球人道主义援助关系的连续性、中断和变化

• 批准号: 508285312
• 负责人: Dr. Patricia Ward
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arbeitsbereich 7 - Mediensoziologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/508285312?language=en
• 关键词: Many; Moving; Parts; Continuity; Disruption

The overall objective of this project is to elaborate understandings of how ‘displacement’, framed as an unprecedented global problem, orders and stratifies society. I operationalize this objective by examining ‘humanitarian logistics’: now touted as a key component of preventing displacement from occurring in the first place. Specifically, this project considers how perceptions of someone or something as ‘out of place’ (e.g. refugees, asylum-seekers) mobilize and order ‘the worth’ of human and non-human resources in the humanitarian aid chain in response. Previous scholarship has long documented how aid practices mitigate but also produce social inequalities. Similarly, scholarship shows how logistics produce and reify social hierarchies because they ‘differentiate groups’ rights and rights to life based on their relationship to systems of supply’ (Cowen 2014: 5). However, the scope and meanings associated with ‘humanitarian logistics’ remain loosely defined and ambiguous. This project subsequently draws upon Bourdieu’s field theory approach to account for this ambiguity and how it first, may reflect competing logics between state and non-state actors regarding ‘how’ humanitarian aid should be organized to prevent and respond to displacement. Second, this project looks at this ambiguity to consider how it may also be indicative of changing relations and positions of power within the humanitarian field today, particularly with the ever-growing participation of the private sector. This project is particularly attuned to the role of ‘non-Western’ and ‘global South’ actors in this regard, groups that largely remain unaccounted for empirically and theoretically despite their significant roles. Considering this ambiguity in these ways expands understandings of how ‘displacement’ organizes what and who is considered ‘in’ or ‘out’ of place in multiple social orders and contexts beyond groups that are usually analyzed and classified as ‘displaced’. In so doing, this project will offer a more complete picture of the processes, relations and struggles that shape (and are shaped by) displacement and the social inequalities and hierarchies of worth that manifest as a result. The objectives of this project can therefore be summarized as follows: (1) Expand empirical and theoretical frameworks to account for how displacement orders and stratifies society; (2) Enrich empirical accounts of the relations and logics undergirding humanitarian logistics in response to displacement; and (3) Develop a relational, multi-directional analysis of the contemporary humanitarian field as a medium through which the organizing principle of displacement operates and orders society.

这个项目的总体目标是详细阐述“流离失所”是如何作为一个前所未有的全球问题，秩序和社会分层的理解。我通过研究“人道主义后勤”来实现这一目标：现在被吹捧为首先防止流离失所发生的关键组成部分。具体而言，该项目考虑了对某人或某物（例如难民、寻求庇护者）“格格不入”的看法如何动员和调整人道主义援助链中人力和非人力资源的“价值”。以前的学术研究早就记录了援助是如何减轻但也会造成社会不平等的。同样，学术研究表明，物流是如何产生和具体化社会等级的，因为它们“根据群体与供应系统的关系区分群体的权利和生命权”（Cowen 2014: 5）。然而，与“人道主义后勤”相关的范围和含义仍然定义松散，模棱两可。该项目随后借鉴了布迪厄的场域理论方法来解释这种模糊性，以及它首先如何反映国家和非国家行为体之间关于“如何”组织人道主义援助以防止和应对流离失所的竞争逻辑。第二，本项目着眼于这种模糊性，以考虑它如何也可能表明当今人道主义领域内不断变化的关系和权力地位，特别是随着私营部门日益增多的参与。在这方面，本项目特别适合“非西方”和“全球南方”行动者的作用，尽管这些群体在经验和理论上发挥着重要作用，但它们在很大程度上仍未被考虑在内。以这些方式考虑这种模糊性，扩展了对“流离失所”如何在多种社会秩序和背景下组织什么以及谁被认为是“在”或“不在”的理解，而不是通常被分析和归类为“流离失所”的群体。通过这样做，本项目将提供一个更完整的过程、关系和斗争的图景，这些过程、关系和斗争塑造了（也被塑造了）流离失所，以及由此表现出来的社会不平等和价值等级。因此，本项目的目标可以概括如下：(1)扩展经验和理论框架，以解释流离失所如何排序和分层社会；(2)丰富应对流离失所的人道主义后勤的关系和逻辑的实证分析；(3)对当代人道主义领域进行关联的、多方位的分析，将其作为一种媒介，通过这种媒介，流离失所的组织原则得以运作，并使社会有序。