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Building States, Empowering Citizens: Rethinking intervention as politics of improvement

建设国家，赋予公民权力：重新思考干预作为改进的政治

基本信息

批准号：
ES/T009004/1
负责人：
Katarina Kusic
金额：
$ 12.17万
依托单位：
Aberystwyth University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FT009004%2F1
关键词：
Building States Empowering Citizens Rethinking

项目摘要

Efforts to help, develop, and empower people and places around the globe shape both policies and imaginations. Whether they are Brexit plans for restructuring development and peacekeeping costs, stand-offs around aid shipments in Venezuela, or the EU's changing relationship with its neighbourhood and candidate states-the news of intervention projects that cross borders in order to aid and develop seem ubiquitous. This project starts from the observation that the eye-catching 'intervention events' - donor projects in developing countries or EU negotiations with third countries - are propped up by a myriad of small and large projects that seek to empower individuals, build peace, promote economic progress, and secure democracy in more subtle and widespread ways. These efforts range from technical assistance and financial aid to capacity building and small educational workshops. And while they go through adjustments in response to changing circumstances, they are apparently a permanent fixture of international politics whose continuation, ironically, depends on never achieving their goal.The project Building States, Empowering Citizens: Rethinking intervention as politics of improvement proposes a major shift in the way practitioners and academics approach interventions like development and statebuilding. It proposes to study these processes as a politics of improvement. By using the concept politics of improvement, I am able to go beyond classical understandings of intervention as found in studies of statebuilding and development. Seeing them as politics of improvement situates these efforts alongside other processes that aim at improvement of diverse people and spaces, and their effects on and perceptions by individuals. Such an interdisciplinary approach uncovers areas of political, economic, and social life that are otherwise left invisible, and allows a fuller understanding of social transformations and their consequences.Specifically, the concept of politics of improvement goes beyond international intervention in three ways:1) it is able to engage a wider range of actors by looking past the local/international positions usually foundin the literature;2) it is attentive to different ways that these subjects are engaged and can thus take into account seeminglycontradictory policies within same projects;3) it is open to a more nuanced understanding of outcomes than the popular liberal/illiberal diagnoses.This reorientation to politics of improvement also includes a methodological commitment to using the experiences of the beneficiaries of these projects as the analytical starting point. The project uses two policy areas in Serbia as sites for the study: non-formal youth education in the form of schools of democracy, human rights, and empowerment; and agricultural policy that seeks to modernise Serbian agriculture and bring it closer to EU standards. Within the two sites, the starting points of my analysis were not the international experts who drive the intervention projects, nor their local partners who implement them, but the many people who live with the consequences of these efforts to empower citizens and build states.

帮助、发展和赋予全球各地人民和地方权力的努力塑造了政策和想象力。无论是重组发展和维和成本的英国退欧计划，围绕委内瑞拉援助运输的对峙，还是欧盟与邻国和候选国不断变化的关系--为了援助和发展而跨境干预项目的消息似乎无处不在。这个项目始于这样一种观察，即引人注目的“干预事件”--发展中国家的捐助者项目或欧盟与第三国的谈判--是由无数大大小小的项目支撑的，这些项目寻求以更微妙和更广泛的方式赋予个人权力、建设和平、促进经济进步和确保民主。这些努力包括从技术援助和财政援助到能力建设和小型教育讲习班。尽管它们会根据不断变化的环境进行调整，但它们显然是国际政治的永久组成部分，具有讽刺意味的是，它们的延续取决于永远不会实现它们的目标。建设国家，为公民赋权：将干预重新思考为改善政治，这一项目提出了从业者和学者处理发展和国家建设等干预措施的方式的重大转变。它建议将这些过程作为一种改进的政治来研究。通过使用改进的概念政治，我能够超越在国家建设和发展研究中发现的对干预的经典理解。将它们视为改善的政治，将这些努力与其他旨在改善不同人和空间的过程及其对个人的影响和感知放在一起。这种跨学科的方法揭示了政治、经济和社会生活中原本被忽视的领域，并允许更充分地了解社会变革及其后果。具体地说，改善政治的概念在三个方面超越了国际干预：1)它能够通过超越文献中通常发现的当地/国际立场来吸引更广泛的参与者；2)它关注这些主题参与的不同方式，从而能够考虑到相同项目中看似相互矛盾的政策；3)与流行的自由/非自由的诊断相比，它对结果的理解更加微妙。这种对改进政治的重新定位还包括从方法论上承诺使用这些项目受益者的经验作为分析起点。该项目使用塞尔维亚的两个政策领域作为研究地点：民主、人权和赋权学校形式的非正规青年教育；以及寻求使塞尔维亚农业现代化并使其更接近欧盟标准的农业政策。在这两个网站内，我分析的起点不是推动干预项目的国际专家，也不是实施这些项目的当地合作伙伴，而是许多人，他们生活在为公民赋权和建立国家的努力的后果中。