The Black Lives Matter Movement: Transnational Activism and the Role of Neo-Liberal Urbanism.

黑人生命也是命运动：跨国行动主义和新自由主义城市主义的作用。

• 批准号: 2065245
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 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=studentship-2065245
• 关键词: Black; Lives; Matter; Movement; Transnational

This project seeks to understand the transnationalism of the Black Lives Matter (BLM)movement. While a small body of work has addressed BLM in the US, the issue oftransnationalism has been neglected in the current academic literature. This provides aunique opportunity for me to be amongst the first to critically investigate BLM as atransnational movement. The BLM movement has established itself most clearly in urbancontexts, and my project explores the relationship between neo-liberal urbanism andBLM activism. Key questions are: why did a movement originating in 'small town' Americaresonate with activists transnationally? What role has neo-liberal urbanism played increating a transnational BLM? What are the advantages and challenges of a transnationalBLM movement? What difference does place make to how the BLM movement isunderstood and enacted in different urban contexts? How effective is transnational BLMactivism in combatting racism and inequalities?I will use multi-sited ethnography to explore BLM activism in London, Sydney andVancouver. The multi-site approach also enables insight into the uneven geographies ofactivism across time and space where different issues may come to the fore. These citieswill provide political insight into why and how BLM has resonated with activists, and thetypes of networks that have made this possible. My research will highlight the criticalimportance of the relationship between race and urbanism.

这个项目试图理解黑人生命也是(BLM)运动的跨国家主义。虽然有一小部分工作涉及到美国的BLM，但在当前的学术文献中，跨国主义的问题被忽视了。这为我提供了一个难得的机会，让我成为第一批批判性地研究BLM作为跨国运动的人之一。BLM运动最清楚地确立了自己在城市背景下的地位，我的项目探索了新自由主义城市主义和BLM激进主义之间的关系。关键的问题是：为什么一场起源于美国小镇的运动在全国范围内引起了积极分子的共鸣？新自由主义都市主义在促进跨国BLM方面发挥了什么作用？跨国博科运动的优势和挑战是什么？在不同的城市背景下，地方对BLM运动的理解和颁布有什么不同？跨国的BLM激进主义在打击种族主义和不平等方面有多有效？我将使用多地点的民族志来探索伦敦、悉尼和温哥华的BLM激进主义。多地点的方法也使人们能够洞察到不同问题可能会在不同的时间和空间上出现的不同地理位置。这些城市将提供政治洞察，了解BLM为什么以及如何与活动人士产生共鸣，以及使这成为可能的网络类型。我的研究将强调种族和城市化之间关系的关键重要性。