Deterritorialized Ethnography: Gender Violence and the Anthropology of Globalization

9904441梅里本项目研究在国际人权界发展起来的全球对妇女的暴力行为运动，作为非领土化社区的一个实例。这位来自韦尔斯利学院的文化人类学家专注于性别暴力的竞争话语，包括歧视、不平等或父权制，因为这些已经在国内和国际活动家、政府组织、联合国机构和会议上进行了辩论。这项研究探索了在一个全球化的后殖民世界中进行民族志研究的新方法，在这个世界中，许多感兴趣的现象是“无地点的”，信息流动迅速。民族志的独特贡献一直是它对小规模社会单位及其构成的文化意义和实践的关注。本项目采用这种方法来探索全球化所产生的新的政治和文化形态。通过研究嵌入全球话语中的本地站点和非地域化的全球会议和交流形式网络，它采用民族志方法来研究本地和全球场所的交叉点和重叠。调查员将研究夏威夷和斐济关于性别暴力的论述，以及联合国审议和跨国非政府组织的非属地化空间。夏威夷的研究已经完成，这个计划现在更进一步，在斐济进行简短的比较研究，与夏威夷的环境相似，并在消除对妇女歧视委员会、联合国妇女地位委员会和其他关注性别暴力的非政府组织进行参与性观察。该项目将提供有关跨国文化政治运动这一相对较新的现象的宝贵信息，并促进我们对正在发展的全球反性别暴力反应的理解。

9904441Merry This project studies the global movement of violence against women as it has developed within the international human rights community as an instance of a deterritorialized community. The researcher, a cultural anthropologist from Wellesley College, focuses on competing discourses about gender violence, including discrimination, inequality, or patriarchy as these have been debated among domestic and international activists, governmental organizations and UN agencies and conferences. The study explores new ways of doing ethnography in a globalizing postcolonial world, where much of the phenomena of interest is "placeless" and information flows rapidly. The distinctive contribution of ethnography has always been its focus on small-scale social units and the cultural meanings and practices which constitute them. This project adopts this methodology to explore the new political and cultural configurations produced by globalization. By examining both a local site embedded in global discourse and a deterritorialized global network of meetings and forms of communication, it takes an ethnographic approach to the intersections and overlaps of local and global places. The investigator will study the discourse about gender violence in Hawaii and Fiji and in the deterritorialized space of UN deliberations and transnational NGOs. The Hawaii research is already done, this project now goes further with a brief comparative study in Fiji, a setting similar to Hawaii, and participant observation at the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and the UN Commission on the Status of Women as well as other NGOs focused on gender violence. This project will produce valuable information about a relatively new phenomenon, transnational cultural-political movements, as well as advance our understanding ofthe developing global reaction against gender violence.