Doctoral Dissertation Research: Subjectivity and Relationship in Mixed-Ethnicity Families in Post-War Contexts

博士生H. Keziah Conrad（加州大学，洛杉矶），由道格拉斯霍兰博士监督，将在种族冲突后的两极分化背景下对混合种族家庭中的个人进行研究。 研究人员将特别关注家庭中的亲属关系和日常互动，作为共同构建态度，价值观和身份的主要场所。 在族群冲突后，混合族群家庭中的人们如何认识自己、维系亲属关系、养育子女？ 研究将在波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那萨拉热窝及其周边地区的家庭中进行12个月。 通过以人为中心的访谈，研究者将讨论混合种族家庭的个人成员如何描述自己，他们与家庭中其他人的关系以及种族象征，以及他们体验或试图找到归属感的方式。 她还将通过记录（通过参与者观察和视频记录）家庭成员之间的自发互动，并通过追踪组织家庭生活的照顾和义务网络，将个人的内省账户置于背景中，这些家庭生活可能看起来“不自然”和危险，因为它们跨越了种族界限。在研究个人叙述和人际互动时，研究人员将关注年轻一代可能继承、内化、挪用或转变长辈对创伤的记忆和对种族的态度的特定过程，以及更广泛的文化定义的方式与身份和过去的暴力有关。 这项研究的结果将有助于从社会科学的角度理解集体暴力的影响，特别是在创伤记忆和仇恨态度或同情理解的代际传递方面。这项工作还关系到制定冲突后和解和过渡时期司法举措，包括支持跨领域联系的政策，如异族通婚，这可以减少进一步冲突的可能性。最后，资助这项研究有助于培养社会科学家。

Doctoral student H. Keziah Conrad (University of California, Los Angeles), supervised by Dr. Douglas Hollan, will undertake research on individuals in mixed-ethnicity families in the polarized contexts that follow ethnic conflicts. The researcher will focus in particular on kin relationships and routine interactions in the family as primary sites for the co-construction of attitudes, values, and identities. In the aftermath of ethnic conflict, how do people in mixed-ethnicity families understand themselves, maintain relationships with kin, and bring up their children? Research will take place over 12 months with families living in and around Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Drawing on person-centered interviews, the researcher will address how individual members of mixed-ethnicity families describe themselves, their affiliation with other people in their family and with symbols of ethnicity, and the ways that they experience or try to find a sense of belonging. She also will contextualize individuals' introspective accounts by documenting (through participant observation and video recording) spontaneous interactions between family members and by tracing the networks of care and obligation that organize family life for kinship groups that may appear "unnatural" and treacherous because they cross ethnic lines. When examining both personal narratives and interpersonal interactions, the researcher will attend to specific processes through which younger generations might inherit, internalize, appropriate, or transform their elders' memories of trauma and attitudes toward ethnicity, as well as broader culturally-defined ways of relating to identity and past violence. Findings from this research will contribute to social scientific understanding of the effects of collective violence, particularly in terms of the intergenerational transmission of traumatic memory and attitudes of hatred or empathic understanding. This work is also relevant to the development of post-conflict reconciliation and transitional justice initiatives, including policy to support cross-cutting ties, such as mixed marriage, which can reduce the probability of further conflict. Finally, funding this research contributes to the training of a social scientist.