Urban roots and national belonging: hierarchies and scales of belonging in London

城市根源和国家归属感：伦敦的等级制度和归属感规模

• 批准号: ES/S010599/1
• 负责人: Amy Clarke
• 金额: $ 11.99万
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS010599%2F1
• 关键词: Urban; roots; national; belonging; hierarchies

What does it mean to be British, English, to be a Londoner, or simply 'local'? How are these identities produced, imagined and maintained? Who do they include and who is excluded? At a time when questions of Britishness and belonging are at the forefront of public and political debate, my research provides an important corrective to divisive and over-simplified debates that position people as either national or non-national, tolerant or racist, and which overlook the ways that white British middle-class people embody, perpetuate and adjust normalised ideas about what 'Britishness' is and who/what is part of it.With a focus on the reproduction of boundaries and hierarchies of belonging among the white British middle-classes, my research innovates the discussion around migrant integration, national belonging and Britishness by highlighting a new research agenda focused on the role of the established majority in these processes and reveals both the racialised nature of Britishness and the significance of historical imaginaries in shaping ideas of belonging in the present, a fact often overlooked by policy-makers.The fellowship will provide the necessary time to establish myself as an early career academic with a strong publication record and to build a basis on which I can continue to deliver high quality, impactful research on nationhood, identity and belonging in a changing Britain. I will consolidate my doctoral work through academic publication, dissemination and impact, and will also begin to develop plans for future research extending my work through ethnography of London-based family histories. These activities are organised around three interrelated sets of research questions:1) How, or to what extent, are Britishness and contemporary British identities, racialised? What role does 'race' play in the politics of recognition and belonging? And, how is 'race' understood in relation to notions of relatedness?2) In what ways, and to what extent, are possibilities for migrants and ethnicised minorities to integrate and belong in and/or to Britain meditated by more established and dominant groups? And, how is belonging understood and reproduced hierarchically and across scales?3) What is the role of historical and genealogical imaginaries in shaping understandings of belonging - national and regional - in the present? And, in particular, how are hierarchies of belonging reproduced through ideas of relatedness and belonging in time?Academic outputs will include 3 peer-reviewed articles (one related to each set of research questions and all intended for high-ranking social science journals) and 3 conference papers (related to journal articles to support dissemination). In addition to conference papers, dissemination activities will include 3 policy briefings, 3 blogs, and 3 short videos, all stressing the implications of my findings in the context of Brexit. These dissemination activities will be related to the research questions and will reassert the following key findings: (1) Whiteness continues to mark core ideas of Britishness, even while the edges of 'Britishness' are blurring; (2) There are power inequalities embedded in processes and politics of integration and belonging; and (3) Ideas about the past, including about genealogical relatedness and Empire, reproduce hierarchical conceptions of belonging in the present.The fellowship offers a real opportunity to increase public and political awareness of the hierarchical and power-laden construction of belonging in Britain, something that is crucial in the context of a 'Brexit Britain' apparently anxious about multiculture and polarised over immigration. It facilitates the extension of my doctoral work through ethnographic investigation of the most exclusive and racialised form of belonging identified in my doctoral work and, in facilitating my transition into an academic career, will secure the continuation of my research at a vanguard in migration geographies.

作为英国人、英国人、伦敦人或仅仅是“本地人”意味着什么？这些身份是如何产生、想象和维持的？哪些人被包括，哪些人被排除？在英国性和归属感问题处于公共和政治辩论前沿的时候，我的研究为分裂和过于简单的辩论提供了重要的纠正，这些辩论将人们定位为民族或非民族，宽容或种族主义者，并且忽视了白色英国中产阶级的体现方式，延续和调整关于“英国性”是什么以及谁/什么是它的一部分的正常化观念。重点是白色英国中产阶级之间归属的边界和层次的再现，我的研究创新了围绕移民融合，民族归属感和英国性的讨论，突出了一个新的研究议程，重点是既定的大多数在这些过程中的作用，并揭示了英国性的种族化性质和历史的重要性，在塑造属于现在的想法，这个奖学金将为我提供必要的时间，使我成为一名具有良好出版记录的早期职业学者，并为我在不断变化的英国继续提供高质量，有影响力的研究奠定基础。我将通过学术出版，传播和影响来巩固我的博士工作，并将开始制定未来研究计划，通过对伦敦家族史的民族志来扩展我的工作。这些活动是围绕三个相互关联的研究问题：1）如何，或在何种程度上，是英国和当代英国的身份，种族化？“种族”在承认和归属的政治中扮演什么角色？而且，如何理解“种族”与相关性概念的关系？2)移民和少数民族融入和归属英国和/或英国的可能性是以何种方式，在何种程度上，由更成熟和占主导地位的群体考虑的？而且，归属感是如何理解和复制的层次和跨尺度？3)历史和系谱学的研究者在塑造当前对民族和地区归属感的理解中扮演了什么角色？特别是，归属的等级是如何通过时间上的相关性和归属感的观念来复制的？学术产出将包括3篇经同行审查的文章（每一组研究问题各一篇，所有文章都将提交给高级别社会科学期刊）和3篇会议论文（与期刊文章有关，以支持传播）。除了会议论文，传播活动还将包括3场政策简报会、3个博客和3个短视频，所有这些都强调了我的研究结果在英国脱欧背景下的影响。这些传播活动将与研究问题有关，并将重申以下主要发现：（1）白人继续标志着英国人的核心思想，即使“英国人”的边缘正在模糊;（2）在融合和归属的过程和政治中存在权力不平等;（3）关于过去的观念，包括关于家谱关系和帝国的观念，该奖学金提供了一个真实的机会，以提高公众和政治对在英国的归属感的等级和权力负载的建设，这是至关重要的背景下，“英国脱欧”显然对多元文化和移民两极分化的焦虑。它通过对我博士工作中确定的最独特和种族化的归属形式进行民族志调查，促进了我的博士工作的扩展，并促进了我向学术生涯的过渡，将确保我在移民地理学前沿的研究继续下去。

项目成果

The (in)significance of citizenship in white British citizens' narratives of national belonging

公民身份在英国白人公民的民族归属感叙述中的（内）意义

• DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2021.1973391
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Clarke A

Hierarchies, scale, and privilege in the reproduction of national belonging

民族归属感再生产中的等级制度、规模和特权

• DOI: 10.1111/tran.12338
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Clarke A

The dis/comfort of white British nationhood: encounters, otherness and postcolonial continuities

英国白人民族的不适/不适：遭遇、差异性和后殖民连续性

• DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2019.1645199
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Social & Cultural Geography
• 影响因子: 2.5
• 作者: Clarke A

Recognising British Bodies: The Significance of Race and Whiteness in 'Post-Racial' Britain

认识英国的身体：种族和白人在“后种族”英国的意义

• DOI: 10.1177/13607804211032232
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Sociological Research Online
• 影响因子: 1.6
• 作者: Clarke A