Feeling and Historical Change in Postwar Britain: Linking Emotional Experience to Social and Economic Practices

战后英国的情感和历史变迁：将情感体验与社会和经济实践联系起来

• 批准号: ES/Y00745X/1
• 负责人: Ryan Tristram-Walmsley
• 金额: $ 13.51万
• 依托单位: Swansea University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FY00745X%2F1
• 关键词: Feeling; Historical; Change; Postwar; Britain

How can we reimagine studying the past? One way is to ask how the emotions of people who came before us influenced their social lives and economic behaviour. How do the meanings of things like hope, nostalgia, homesickness, and hate change over time? How does this affect wider social and economic life? And what can this say about our present world, and the challenges it faces today?Take "wanderlust", a relatively new emotion word expressing a yearning to travel. The desire to travel is as old as humanity, but the way we experience and express it has changed. "Wanderlust" isn't just a word, it's an experience that reflects our current world in an age of globalised travel and budget airlines. Its popularity has had serious consequences for the economies of places like Southeast Asia and the social lives of its people. Emotions, economies, and social worlds are all connected, and they change over time.I wish to build my early career around exploring these connections in modern British history - especially around its migration movements. I will begin this during the fellowship, and I will focus on two approaches.a) Publishing my researchWith my publisher, I will transform my PhD thesis into a book. It focuses on the emotions of Caribbean migrants coming to Britain after 1945, and how these emotions affected wider social and economic behaviour. For example, this migration flow is often considered an "economic migration" (people moving country to attain better wages and standards of living). My first chapter argues that this "economic" motivation is actually emotional: the negative feelings that some Caribbean people felt from poverty motivated them to move to Britain. The book, which this fellowship will allow me to complete, argues that it isn't easy to separate "irrational" emotions from "rational" economic life. I will also submit two articles for publication in academic journals.The first will study something called "blues parties". These were parties Caribbean migrants hosted in their homes, often because they were excluded from Britain's nightclubs. I will argue these places were an "emotional refuge" - they acted as safe spaces for migrants to express and feel certain emotions. It will also argue the discrimination Caribbean migrants faced in Britain was based on certain emotions, such as fear and hate.The second article will look at conscription in the British military during the Second World War. So far, research hasn't focused on how military life is about emotional training well as physical training. Militaries have special rules for what emotions are appropriate and how to express them. Because so many British men were enlisted during the Second World War, I will ask how they changed their country's social and economic character after the war.b) Building my network and hosting eventsTo connect with other researchers, I will present a paper at a conference. It will explore how the nostalgia of migrants in Britain led to a demand for consumer goods which reminded them of home. Irish migrants in the nineteenth century, for example, opened shops catering to other migrants which sold Irish newspapers, food, and popular products. They advertised their businesses in Irish community newspapers in Britain, and often used emotional language to do so.I will also organise a symposium where academics, the public, migrants, refugees, and local MPs will be invited to discuss migrant and refugee wellbeing in the local area. This is urgent and highly important, given the current war in Ukraine and the political situation in the UK over Channel crossings. Everyone will discuss what changes can improve the situation, and a list of these will be presented to MPs.Overall, this project will give us a far better understanding of the relationship between emotion, economics, and social behaviour, and how these combined to help make Britain what it is today. This tells us how we got here, and where we might go

我们如何重新思考研究过去？一种方法是询问我们之前的人的情绪如何影响他们的社会生活和经济行为。希望、怀旧、思乡和仇恨等事物的含义是如何随着时间的推移而变化的？这将如何影响更广泛的社会和经济生活？这对我们当今的世界及其面临的挑战有什么意义？以“wanderlust”为例，这是一个相对较新的情感词汇，表达了对旅行的渴望。旅行的愿望与人类一样古老，但我们体验和表达它的方式已经改变。“旅行癖”不仅仅是一个词，它是一种体验，反映了我们在全球化旅行和廉价航空时代的当今世界。它的流行对东南亚等地的经济和人民的社会生活产生了严重的后果。情感、经济和社会世界都是相互联系的，它们会随着时间的推移而变化。我希望在我的早期职业生涯中，探索现代英国历史中的这些联系--特别是移民运动。我将在奖学金期间开始这项工作，我将专注于两种方法：a）出版我的研究与我的出版商，我将把我的博士论文变成一本书。它关注1945年后来到英国的加勒比移民的情绪，以及这些情绪如何影响更广泛的社会和经济行为。例如，这种移民流动往往被认为是“经济移民”（人们为了获得更好的工资和生活水平而迁移到一个国家）。我的第一章认为，这种“经济”动机实际上是情感上的：一些加勒比人因贫困而产生的负面情绪促使他们移居英国。这本书，这个奖学金将允许我完成，认为这是不容易区分“非理性”的情绪从“理性”的经济生活。我也将提交两篇文章在学术期刊上发表。第一篇将研究一种叫做“蓝调派对”的东西。这些是加勒比移民在家中举办的聚会，通常是因为他们被排除在英国的夜总会之外。我认为这些地方是一个“情感避难所”--它们是移民表达和感受某些情绪的安全空间。它还将争辩说，加勒比移民在英国面临的歧视是基于某些情绪，如恐惧和仇恨。第二篇文章将着眼于第二次世界大战期间英国军队的征兵。到目前为止，研究还没有集中在如何军事生活是关于情感训练和体能训练。军队对于什么样的情绪是合适的以及如何表达这些情绪有着特殊的规定。因为第二次世界大战期间有如此多的英国人应征入伍，我将问他们战后如何改变了他们国家的社会和经济特征。B）建立我的网络和举办活动为了与其他研究人员联系，我将在一个会议上发表一篇论文。它将探讨英国移民的怀旧情绪如何导致对让他们想起家乡的消费品的需求。例如，19世纪世纪的爱尔兰移民开设了商店，向其他移民出售爱尔兰报纸、食品和流行产品。他们在英国的爱尔兰社区报纸上宣传他们的业务，并且经常使用情感语言来这样做。我还将组织一个研讨会，邀请学者，公众，移民，难民和当地议员讨论当地的移民和难民福利。鉴于乌克兰目前的战争和英国在海峡过境点的政治局势，这是紧迫和非常重要的。每个人都将讨论哪些改变可以改善这种情况，这些改变的清单将提交给议员们。总的来说，这个项目将使我们更好地了解情感，经济和社会行为之间的关系，以及这些如何结合起来帮助英国成为今天的样子。它告诉我们我们是如何来到这里的，以及我们可能会去哪里