Tensions and Conventions of Kin - Work: An Ethnography of Family Businesses in Rural Scotland

亲属关系的紧张与约定 - 工作：苏格兰乡村家族企业的民族志

• 批准号: 2811028
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2811028
• 关键词: Tensions; Conventions; Kin; Work; Ethnography

Family and work are the most entrenching facts of social life, yet the paucity of studies that bring kinship and economic relations together has led to misassumptions about what ethnographic research into family businesses can do. Such research can reveal the dynamics of late capitalism and kin intimacies through the shifts in the relative balance of generational esteem and the entanglements of household wealth and regional businesses. I am interested in the kinds of work that make up town economy and its connections to the surrounding villages. I will do that through an ethnography of small family and kin-run businesses on one hand and the networks of kin that underly other kinds of labour on the other hand. The south-west Scottish market town Dumfries provides an ideal case study of economic and social entanglements. The Dumfries and Galloway constituency was part of the 18th century planned village movement that established labour and residential settlements in the countryside (Philip 2003). The complex effects of deindustrialization, devolution, Brexit, and the COVID-19 pandemic on rural employment and economy continue to unfold in Dumfries. While relegated to the background in favor of economic debates, the contentions of localism, social class, and political representation feed the undercurrent of the question of Scottish independence today especially for rural 'out of the way' regions (Nadel-Klein 1991; Law and Mooney 2006; Smith 2011). Thus, my ethnography of Dumfries will tap into the moral and political economy of the town by investigating the traditions and prospects of family work. My ethnographic focus encompasses contemporary issues of the administration of rural and urban relations and the provisioning of households in deindustrializing economies.Research QuestionsMy approach exemplifies a direction in kinship studies that seeks to understand how kinship networks are means of sustenance and livelihood (Malinowski 1930; Kondo 1990; Becker 1991). The study partakes further in anthropological questions of social and economic relationships (Bloch 1984), production (Meillassoux 1973), and distribution (Bear et al 2015) through an investigation of the tensions and conventions of kin working together. My particular focus is on the small family businesses that produce for their own sustenance and sell their products in the local market. My sense is that family work exercises a transformational power over family dynamics and intimacies. It then follows to ask, how is work divided between the family members? How is succession planned within family businesses? How does family work engender its members? How do co-working familymembers deal with money? Do relatives of these families buy from them? How do family businesses situate themselves within the town and the country?

家庭和工作是社会生活中最根深蒂固的事实，然而，缺乏将亲属关系和经济关系结合起来的研究，导致了对家族企业民族志研究的错误假设。这种研究可以通过代际尊重相对平衡的变化以及家庭财富和地区企业的纠缠来揭示晚期资本主义和亲属亲密关系的动态。我对构成城镇经济的各种工作及其与周围村庄的联系感兴趣。我将通过一个民族志来做到这一点，一方面是小家庭和亲属经营的企业，另一方面是作为其他类型劳动基础的亲属网络。苏格兰西南部的集镇邓弗里斯为研究经济和社会纠葛提供了一个理想的案例。邓弗里斯和加洛韦选区是18世纪世纪有计划的乡村运动的一部分，该运动在农村建立了劳动力和住宅定居点（菲利普2003）。去工业化、权力下放、英国脱欧和新冠肺炎疫情对农村就业和经济的复杂影响继续在邓弗里斯显现。虽然降级到有利于经济辩论的背景下，地方主义，社会阶级和政治代表的争论，饲料今天的苏格兰独立问题的暗流，特别是对农村的“出路”地区（Nadel-Klein 1991;法律和穆尼2006;史密斯2011）。因此，我对邓弗里斯的民族志将通过调查家庭工作的传统和前景来挖掘该镇的道德和政治经济。我的民族志的重点包括农村和城市关系的管理和家庭在deindustrializing economies.Research的规定当代问题我的方法阐明了亲属关系研究的方向，试图了解亲属关系网络是如何维持生计和生计的手段（Malinowski 1930;近藤1990;贝克尔1991）。该研究通过调查亲属合作的紧张关系和惯例，进一步探讨了社会和经济关系（Bloch 1984）、生产（Meillassoux 1973）和分配（Bear et al 2015）等人类学问题。我特别关注的是那些为自己的生计而生产并在当地市场销售产品的小型家庭企业。我的感觉是，家庭工作对家庭动力和亲密关系具有变革性的力量。那么接下来要问的是，家庭成员之间的工作是如何分配的？家族企业内部的继承计划是怎样的？家庭工作如何使其成员性别化？共同工作的家庭成员如何处理金钱？这些家庭的亲戚从他们那里买东西吗？家族企业如何在城镇和农村中自我发展？