Doctoral Dissertation Research: Imaginary, Emotional, and Everyday Spaces of Palestinian Childhood and Youth

博士生桑迪·马歇尔将在地理系和肯塔基大学安娜·塞科教授的指导下，研究巴勒斯坦难民儿童和青年的空间和空间实践。巴勒斯坦儿童在身体和心理上首当其冲地受到冲突的冲击，并承受着沉重的代表性负担。根据不同的视角，这些儿童以不同的方式被象征；他们代表着未来解放的希望；他们代表着对犹太人人口优势的威胁；他们是暴力的无辜受害者；以及人道主义援助和教育干预的主要目标。虽然学术界和人道主义界对巴勒斯坦儿童的受害和病态写了很多文章，但很少有人努力倾听儿童和青年自己在阐述其日常生活中的政治时发出的各种声音。同样，虽然新兴的儿童领域的学者S地理学试图理解儿童的空间感知，他们如何影响特定的空间，他们如何受到特定空间的影响，但这些文献的大部分仍然专注于学校和家庭的地方规模，很少考虑这些地点在更广泛的国家和全球地缘政治想象中的意义。这项关于巴勒斯坦儿童地理的研究将试图通过研究巴勒斯坦儿童相互矛盾的表现，如何动员这些观点以适应地缘政治议程，以及这些讨论如何塑造巴勒斯坦儿童的经历和空间实践，并重新塑造这些讨论，来解决这些疏忽。这个项目将通过考虑地缘政治的作用来促进现有的关于儿童地理的文献，地缘政治着眼于在日常生活层面上解决和抵制诸如冲突和安全等地缘政治问题的方式。该项目不仅在国家抵抗和国际冲突的背景下审查儿童的生活，而且还审查儿童本身的政治世界，特别是年龄和性别差异如何影响儿童的经历、观点和做法。通过考虑儿童在这些冲突中的声音，这项研究有助于更多关于儿童和青年地域的研究，并帮助我们了解巴勒斯坦青年的生活，从而使我们对该地区冲突的未来有一些洞察。

Doctoral student Sandy Marshall, under the supervision of Professor Anna Secor in the Department of Geography and the University of Kentucky will examine the spaces and spatial practices of refugee children and youth in Palestine. Palestinian children experience the physical and psychological brunt of conflict, as well as a heavy representational burden. These children are symbolized in various ways depending on perspective; they represent the promise of future liberation; a threat to Jewish demographic superiority; innocent victims of violence; and key targets of humanitarian aid and educational intervention. While much is written about the victimization and pathology of Palestinian children in academic and humanitarian communities, little effort has been given to listen to the various voices of children and youth themselves as they articulate the politics of their daily lives. Likewise, while scholarship in the bourgeoning field of children?s geography attempts to understand the spatial perceptions of children, how they affect and are affected by certain spaces, much of this literature remains focused on the local scale of schools and the home, with little consideration given to the significance of these sites within wider, national and global geopolitical imaginings. This research on Palestinian children's geographies will attempt to address both these oversights by examining the conflicting representations of children in Palestine, how such view points are mobilized to suit geopolitical agendas, and also how these discussions shape and are reshaped by children's experiences and spatial practices in Palestine. This project will contribute to the existing literature on children's geographies by considering the role of geopolitics, which looks at the ways in which geopolitical issues like conflict and security are played out and resisted at the level of everyday life. This project not only examines the lives of children within the context of national resistance and international conflict, but also examines the political world of children themselves, particularly how differences in age and gender affect children's experiences, views and practices. By considering the voices of children in these conflicts, this research contributes to a growing body of research on geographies of children and youth, and helps us to understand the lives of young people in Palestine, thus giving us some insight into the future of conflict in this region.