International Solidarity with the Kurdish Freedom Movement: Navigating Contradictions Through Diplomacy

国际声援库尔德自由运动：通过外交化解矛盾

• 批准号: 2617233
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2617233
• 关键词: International; Solidarity; Kurdish; Freedom; Movement

One of the most heated debates in the field of human rights is whether they can be a force for emancipation or in fact reinforce existing structures of power. This project will be an ethnographic study of the UK Kurdish Solidarity Network in London including participant observation and qualitative interviews with activists. It will focus specifically on the ways that the movement employs human rights narratives and practices and its relationships to human rights institutions such as INGOs, and even to some limited extent with legal institutions and the UN. Examination of this relationship can provide a great deal of insight into the contradictory role of human rights in regard to hegemonic and counter-hegemonic forces. Moreover such a study can also help illuminate understandings of contemporary anti-systemic discourse and practice. UPDATE to fieldwork August 2023: Daniel's project looks at the way activists in the Kurdish diaspora and solidarity activists in Europe engage with European civil society and state institutions to build solidarity with the Kurdish Freedom Movement. This involves studying transnational Kurdish solidarity networks in three key sites: London, Berlin and Brussels. These important locations for the kinds of solidarity activism and lobbying which this project is researching. The proposed research involves in-depth qualitative semi structured interviews with activists and ethnographic participant observation during relevant conferences and events held by activists. In person interviews are necessary due to the in-depth and qualitative nature of the interviews and the ethnographic importance of visiting the sites, including Kurdish cultural centres, and the offices of Kurdish NGOs and political organisations. Activists are also most comfortable with in-person interviews. In terms of overseas locations, undertaking interviews in both Berlin and Brussels will be vital for the project. Germany is home to one of the largest Kurdish diaspora populations in Europe, which has a long history of the kind of political mobilisations and engagements with civil society studied by this project. Berlin is the centre of much of these engagements with key political and legal institutions based there. Brussels is key given the presence of various international and European-level institutions. It is vital to conduct this fieldwork over this summer period so that Daniel will have research material to analyse for his upcoming 3rd Year annual review in Lent Term 2024. This will involve interviews conducted during two trips. The first of these will be to Berlin from 27 July to 1 August 2023 where interviews with Kurdish NGOs, political representatives, solidarity activists and human rights lawyers will be undertaken. This will include one interview in Frankfurt with the representative of a Kurdish human rights NGO. This trip has been approved by LSE health and safety and will be covered by LSE's travel insurance. The second trip, to Brussels, is planned for late August 2023. During the period Daniel will conduct interviews with Kurdish NGO's political representatives, solidarity activists and human rights lawyers in Brussels. These trips will be an essential part of his fields work, without these in depth qualitative interviews the research will not be possible.

人权领域中最激烈的辩论之一是，人权是否能够成为解放的力量，还是实际上加强了现有的权力结构。这个项目将是伦敦英国库尔德团结网络的民族志研究，包括参与者观察和对活动家的定性访谈。它将特别关注运动采用人权叙事和实践的方式，以及它与国际非政府组织等人权机构的关系，甚至在一定程度上与法律机构和联合国的关系。对这一关系的考察可以对人权在霸权和反霸权力量方面的矛盾作用提供大量的见解。此外，这样的研究也有助于阐明对当代反体制话语和实践的理解。实地调查更新2023年8月：丹尼尔的项目着眼于散居海外的库尔德活动人士和欧洲的团结活动人士如何与欧洲公民社会和国家机构合作，以建立与库尔德自由运动的团结。这包括在三个关键地点研究库尔德人的跨国团结网络：伦敦、柏林和布鲁塞尔。这些是团结行动和游说活动的重要地点，也是这个项目正在研究的。拟议的研究包括对积极分子进行深入的定性半结构化访谈，以及在积极分子举行的相关会议和活动期间进行的民族志参与者观察。由于面谈的深度和质量性质，以及访问这些地点（包括库尔德文化中心、库尔德非政府组织和政治组织的办事处）在人种学上的重要性，亲自面谈是必要的。活动人士也最喜欢面对面的采访。就海外地点而言，在柏林和布鲁塞尔进行采访对该项目至关重要。德国是欧洲最大的库尔德散居人口之一，在政治动员和与公民社会接触方面有着悠久的历史，这是本项目所研究的。柏林是这些主要政治和法律机构的中心。考虑到各种国际和欧洲机构的存在，布鲁塞尔是关键。在这个夏天进行这次实地考察是至关重要的，这样丹尼尔就有了研究材料来分析他即将到来的2024年第四学期的第三年年度回顾。这将包括在两次旅行期间进行的采访。其中第一次将于2023年7月27日至8月1日在柏林进行，届时将对库尔德非政府组织、政治代表、声援活动人士和人权律师进行采访。这将包括在法兰克福对库尔德人权非政府组织代表的一次采访。这次旅行已经通过了伦敦经济学院健康和安全部门的批准，并将由伦敦经济学院的旅行保险承担。第二次访问布鲁塞尔，计划于2023年8月下旬。在此期间，丹尼尔将在布鲁塞尔采访库尔德非政府组织的政治代表、团结活动人士和人权律师。这些旅行将是他野外工作的重要组成部分，没有这些深入的定性访谈，研究将不可能进行。