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Everyday Internationalism: The German Democratic Republic and Postcolonial World

日常国际主义：德意志民主共和国和后殖民世界

基本信息

批准号：
ES/W005816/1
负责人：
George Bodie
金额：
$ 12.13万
依托单位：
University of Cambridge
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW005816%2F1
关键词：
Everyday Internationalism German Democratic Republic

项目摘要

State-led solidarity campaigns were a central feature of everyday life in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) throughout its existence. Evidence suggests that from the 1970s onward, over 90% of the East German population made monthly donations to the trade union-run solidarity committee. These donations were used to fund various manifestations of material solidarity with organisations, states and movements in Latin America, Africa and Asia, from student scholarships to the building of hospitals. This solidarity culture was a central subject of my PhD, which explored decolonisation as a social field between citizen and state in the GDR. The realities of this practice and its legacies in unified Germany remain underexplored in both academic literature and in the non-academic world. This fellowship will allow me to build upon research carried out for my PhD to disseminate my findings and engage in knowledge exchange with a variety of academic and non-academic partners, as well as exploring solidarity further via the carrying out of a pilot study, interviewing East German citizens and former workers in the solidarity nexus. With the expert mentorship of Dr Celia Donert, the Fellowship would allow me to further my track record of knowledge exchange, research dissemination and impact in three key ways:First, I will continue to disseminate my PhD research, publishing a monograph with Cornell University Press based on my doctoral thesis. This monograph will explore the social dimensions of solidarity as a political field between citizen and state in the GDR. In addition, I will organise two interdisciplinary events to interrogate the concept of transnational solidarity: a symposium, held at the University of Cambridge, and conference panel at the annual BASEES conference.Second, I will continue to build bridges between academia and the non-academic world, via two specific projects. I will make the results of my research accessible to social justice practitioners and activists, allowing them to use real life historical examples of the practice and theory of transnational solidarity to inform their current practice. I will do this via a workshop organised with a social justice organisation such as Journey to Justice, Global Justice Now, or trade unions with international links, such as Unite. I will also seek to promote a more nuanced and historically informed discussion regarding the topic of solidarity in German civil society via the publishing of a short text on solidarity with the State Centre for Political Education in Thuringia. This impact will be furthered by the production of learning resource that I will co-produce with the education and research department of the German state agency (BStU) responsible for the archive of the GDR secret police, which will be used by school and civil society groups to explore how authoritarianism and solidarity coexisted in the GDR. A webinar, hosted in April 2022, will serve to publicise and disseminate this learning resource.Third, the fellowship will enable me to continue to have impact on both academic and non-academic worlds by providing the funding and training necessary to begin exploratory further research. As a fellow, I will carry out a pilot study set of interviews with former GDR citizens, using training obtained in Social Network Analysis (SNA) to identify the key figures, structures, and relationships in GDR solidarity culture as well as narrative research to seek to reconstruct and explore memories of the everyday experience of state-run solidarity campaigns in the GDR. Using this pilot study as a basis for further study, I will applying for further postdoctoral funding, such as Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship or British Academy Early Career Fellowship.

在德意志民主共和国（民主德国）存在的整个时期，国家领导的团结运动是日常生活的一个中心特征。有证据表明，从20世纪70年代起，超过90%的东德人口每月向工会管理的团结委员会捐款。这些捐款被用于资助与拉丁美洲、非洲和亚洲的组织、国家和运动的各种形式的物质团结，从学生奖学金到医院建设。这种团结文化是我博士学位的一个中心课题，该课题探讨了民主德国公民和国家之间的非殖民化社会领域。这种做法的现实及其在统一的德国的遗产在学术文献和非学术界都没有得到充分的探讨。这项奖学金将使我能够在为我的博士学位进行的研究的基础上传播我的研究结果，并与各种学术和非学术合作伙伴进行知识交流，以及通过开展试点研究进一步探索团结，采访东德公民和团结关系中的前工人。在Celia Donert博士的专家指导下，该奖学金将使我能够以三种关键方式进一步促进我在知识交流，研究传播和影响方面的记录：首先，我将继续传播我的博士研究，根据我的博士论文与康奈尔大学出版社出版专著。这本专著将探讨团结的社会层面作为一个政治领域之间的公民和国家在民主德国。此外，我还将组织两个跨学科的活动来探讨跨国团结的概念：一个是在剑桥大学举行的研讨会，另一个是在年度BASEES会议上举行的小组讨论会。第二，我将继续通过两个具体项目在学术界和非学术界之间搭建桥梁。我将使我的研究结果访问社会正义的从业者和活动家，让他们使用跨国团结的实践和理论的真实的生活历史的例子，以告知他们目前的做法。我将通过与社会正义组织（如正义之旅，全球正义现在）或与国际联系的工会（如团结）组织的研讨会来做到这一点。我还将通过与图林根州政治教育中心出版一份关于团结的短文，寻求促进德国民间社会就团结这一主题进行更细致和更有历史依据的讨论。我将与负责东德秘密警察档案的德国国家机构（BStU）的教育和研究部门共同制作学习资源，这些资源将被学校和民间社会团体用来探索东德的威权主义和团结是如何共存的。2022年4月举办的网络研讨会将有助于宣传和传播这一学习资源。第三，奖学金将使我能够通过提供开始探索性进一步研究所需的资金和培训，继续对学术界和非学术界产生影响。作为一名研究员，我将进行一项试点研究，对前民主德国公民进行采访，利用社会网络分析（SNA）中获得的培训来识别民主德国团结文化中的关键人物，结构和关系，以及叙事研究，以寻求重建和探索民主德国国营团结运动的日常经验的记忆。利用这个试点研究作为进一步研究的基础，我将申请进一步的博士后基金，如Leverhulme早期职业奖学金或英国学院早期职业奖学金。