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African-Caribbean Women's Mobility and Self-Fashioning in Post-Diaspora Contexts.

流散后背景下的非洲-加勒比妇女的流动性和自我塑造。

基本信息

批准号：
AH/P007163/1
负责人：
Suzanne Scafe
金额：
$ 4.44万
依托单位：
London South Bank University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP007163%2F1
关键词：
African Caribbean Women Mobility Self

项目摘要

This research tests the effectiveness of 'post-diaspora' as a new concept and analytic tool. It asks how this concept can be used to reimagine new means by which African-Caribbean women achieve agency through mobility in twenty-first century contexts of globalization, transnationalism and deterritorialization. Post-diaspora is neither a departure from, nor a continuation of contemporary usages of diaspora: rather the 'post' signals a new problem space that allows us to imagine new futures, by focusing on mobility both as a defining feature of Caribbean identities and as a route to self-fashioning for African-Caribbean women. Rather than linear journeys that result in the reconstitution of a remembered past in a present of new physical and cultural geographies, post-diasporic journeys are rhizomatic: they radically configure the assumed significance of 'home' and 'away'. In rhizomatic journeys, roots are provisional and unfixed. Routes are often circuitous, and return - physical, rhetorical and economic - is a key component of African-Caribbean women's mobility (Trotz 2006; Trotz and Malone 2013; Reynolds 208, 2010). While contemporary engagements with concepts of diaspora emphasise loss of 'origin', displacement, 'genealogies of dispossession' (Boyarin and Boyarin 2002; Cho2007), the formulation 'post-diaspora' moves away from ideas of homeland as singular and discrete, and from the accompanying idea that feelings of longing constitute the diasporic subject. As a concept, it intervenes in attempts in contemporary scholarship to progress discussions of the African diaspora beyond the privileging of nationalist sensibilities and an 'exaggerated attention to belonging' (Rushdy 2009), to more mobile and enabling articulations of blackness. It is a reimagining of affiliated identities beyond those that pertain to the nation state (Gilroy 2004, 2011; Hall 2007). Caribbean and African-Caribbean communities in North America, Britain and elsewhere are both twice diasporised (Hall 1976), and in the process of onward and recursive migrations, they are reconstituted by different and more variegated encounters (Cohen 2009). The concept of post-diaspora is attentive to the consequences of multiple encounters and the possibility of diverse affiliations. This transdisciplinary Network uses knowledge and resources of five disciplinary areas: gender studies, literature, sociology, cultural geography and history. The Network also facilitates a trans-historical and transnational dialogue on the theme of post-diaspora. It connects scholars from Britain, the Caribbean and North America, who bring their own theoretical, methodological and disciplinary processes to answer the following questions: 1. What does present research tell us about how Britain, the Caribbean and North America can be understood in post-diaspora contexts? 2. What are the gender dimensions of post-diaspora for African Caribbean women, with its emphasis on multi-directional mobility and instability? 3) How do these non-linear forms of mobility and the production of multiple affiliations produce the conditions for African-Caribbean women's agency and self-fashioning? 4) What forms of expression are available to reconfigure identities as post-diasporic? These questions will be addressed through a website archiving the Network's activities and hosted by London South Bank University; a series of short research meetings and seminars of invited international scholars; an edited collection for a special issue of the interdisciplinary journal Small Axe and selected contributions to Diaspora: a Journal of Transnational Studies; a one-day policy dialogue between members of the Network and the International Migration Taskforce, Planning Institute of Jamaica; two creative platforms of invited practitioners whose work addresses the theme; a meeting with the curators of the Black Cultural Archives, London.

本研究检验了“后散居”作为一个新概念和分析工具的有效性。它询问如何利用这一概念重新设想新的手段，使非洲-加勒比妇女在全球化、跨国主义和非地域化的21世纪背景下通过流动实现能动性。后散居既不是对散居的背离，也不是对散居的当代用法的延续：相反，“后”标志着一个新的问题空间，使我们能够想象新的未来，通过关注流动性作为加勒比身份的一个定义特征，并作为非洲-加勒比妇女自我塑造的途径。与导致在新的物质和文化地理的当下重建记忆中的过去的线性旅程不同，后散居旅程是根茎式的：它们从根本上配置了“家”和“离开”的假定意义。在根茎的旅程中，根是临时的和不固定的。返回的路线往往是迂回的，返回-身体上的、口头上的和经济上的-是非洲-加勒比妇女流动的一个关键组成部分（Trotz，2006年; Trotz和马龙，2013年; Reynolds，208年，2010年）。虽然当代与流散概念的接触强调了“起源”的丧失、流离失所、“剥夺的谱系”（Boyarin and Boyarin 2002; Cho 2007），但“后流散”的提法远离了家园作为单一和离散的想法，以及伴随的想法，即渴望的感觉构成了流散的主体。作为一个概念，它介入了当代学术界对非洲散居者的讨论，超越了对民族主义情感和“对归属感的过分关注”（Rushdy 2009），更多地移动的，使黑人的表达更加清晰。它是对民族国家之外的附属身份的重新想象（Gilroy 2004，2011; Hall 2007）。北美、英国和其他地方的加勒比和非洲-加勒比社区都经历了两次散居（Hall 1976），在向前和递归迁移的过程中，他们通过不同的和更多样化的遭遇进行重组（Cohen 2009）。后散居的概念关注的是多次遭遇的后果和不同归属的可能性。这一跨学科网络利用五个学科领域的知识和资源：性别研究、文学、社会学、文化地理学和历史。该网络还促进关于散居后问题的跨历史和跨国对话。它连接来自英国，加勒比和北美的学者，他们带来了自己的理论，方法和学科过程来回答以下问题：1。目前的研究告诉我们如何在后散居背景下理解英国，加勒比和北美？2.非裔加勒比妇女散居后的性别层面是什么，重点是多向流动性和不稳定性？3)这些非线性形式的流动和多种联系的产生如何为非洲-加勒比妇女的能动性和自我塑造创造条件？4)什么样的表达形式可用于重新配置身份作为后散居？这些问题将通过以下途径得到解决：一个由伦敦南岸大学主办的网络活动存档网站;一系列短期研究会议和受邀国际学者研讨会;为跨学科期刊《小斧头》特刊编辑的文集和《散居国外：跨国研究期刊》的部分稿件;网络成员与牙买加规划研究所国际移徙问题工作队之间为期一天的政策对话;两个由应邀从事这一主题工作的从业人员组成的创造性平台;与伦敦黑人文化档案馆馆长的会面。