Paradoxes of Place: Pausing Motion in Ancient Italy

目前的地点、流动性和公民身份理论提供了新的手段，可以理解个人和社区如何与居住地景观中的真实的和想象的点相联系，以及人们如何设想他们居住的地方并赋予其价值。在这项研究中，古意大利将通过文本和材料的证据进行检查，明确什么是“建设”的地方意味着什么，以及如何建设的机制，发展和改变社区成员和身份。它将通过调查三个领域来关注公元前两个世纪罗马-意大利联合政权的建立：空间和时间的映射;建筑和景观的机构;以及公民身份和归属感的和解。我将检验一个假设，即在罗马霸权之前，与物理位置的流动关系让位于需要更大的物理固定性的关系。因此，该项目关注的是人类移徙和边界发展的各个方面，并审查了人类流动有时可以接受，有时令人讨厌的背景所带来的挑战。因此，该项目涉及我们自己世界中的重大问题。现代欧洲人越来越多地在融合文化的界面上协商他们的身份，就像几个世纪前古意大利的人口一样。他们的困境在历史上也是显而易见的，领土争端加剧了文化和社区摩擦，文化和社区摩擦也加剧了这种困境。在这种情况下，我们的地方感是如何协商和表达的？作为公民和个人，我们如何想象我们生活中的一个地方？该项目将：（1）提供详细的历史分析的特定问题，在发挥在古代意大利如上所述;（2）概念化这些与跨学科理论从几个领域，包括地理学，人类学和社会学;（3）contextualize这些在一个更广泛的历史框架。澳大利亚人权委员会的研究金将构成去年开始的这一项目的最后阶段。它将提供关键的时间和空间，把我对古代意大利的实证研究，从跨学科研讨会上的地方，我将与其他历史学家进行的研究作为一个戴维斯研究员在普林斯顿大学，在2010年的见解。这些将在一本关于地方的Paradies：古代意大利的暂停运动的书中达到高潮，这本书将在2011年奖学金结束时完成。这项研究将成为与艺术家和建筑师进行跨学科和跨实践合作的基础，以进一步发展这些想法，并确保研究结果产生最大的影响。已经向欧洲研究理事会提交了一份关于这样一个企业的申请，题为"替代地点：过去和未来“。它将考虑的方式，地方的概念之间的上下文移动，无论是物理或关系/施为方面的建设具有首要地位。AHRC奖学金将允许完成研究，这将提供一种创新的方法，探索历史编纂和概念理论之间的关系，以阐明人类经验中的一系列共同问题。

Current theories of place, mobility and citizenship provide new means of understanding how individuals and communities relate to real and imagined points in the inhabited landscape and how people envisage and give value to the places in which they live. In this research, Ancient Italy will be examined through textual and material evidence to make explicit what a 'constructed' nature of place means and how the mechanism of its construction develops and changes community membership and identity. It will focus on the creation of the joint Romano-Italian power in the last two centuries BC by investigating three areas: the mapping of space and time; the agency of architecture and landscape; and the reconciliation of citizenship and belonging. I will test the hypothesis that a fluid relationship to physical locatedness, prevalent prior to Roman hegemony, gave way to one that required greater physical fixity. The project is therefore concerned with aspects of human migration and the development of borders, and it examines the challenges presented by contexts in which human mobility is sometimes acceptable, and sometimes obnoxious. As such the project engages issues of major importance in our own world. Modern Europeans increasingly negotiate their identities on the interface of converging cultures, just as the populations of ancient Italy did centuries ago. Their predicaments are also visible throughout history where territorial disputes amplify, and are amplified by, cultural and communal friction. In such situations, how is our sense of place negotiated and expressed? How do we imagine what a place can be in our lives as citizens and individuals? The project will: (1) provide detailed historical analysis of the particular issues in play in ancient Italy as indicated above; (2) conceptualise these in relation to interdisciplinary theory from several domains including geography, anthropology and sociology; and (3) contextualise these within a wider historic framework. The AHRC fellowship will form the final stage of this project, which was begun last year. It will provide the crucial time and space to bring together my empirical studies on ancient Italy, with insights from the interdisciplinary workshops on the subject of place, and the research which I will be conducting with other historians as a Davis Fellow in Princeton, in 2010. These will culminate in a book on Paradoxes of Place: pausing motion in ancient Italy, which will be completed by the end of the fellowship in 2011. This research will form the foundations for an ongoing interdisciplinary and cross-practice collaboration with artists and architects to develop further the ideas and ensure that the findings have maximum impact. An application for such a venture has already been submitted, to the European Research Council, entitled Alternative Place: past and future. It will consider the way that the concept of place moves between contexts in which either the physical or the relational/performative aspect of its construction have primacy. The AHRC fellowship will allow the completion of research which will offer an innovative methodology for exploring the relationship between historiography and conceptual theory to illuminate a common set of problems in the human experience of place.