Doctoral Dissertation Research: State Violence and the Struggle for Life

这项研究解决了社会科学研究特别是政治科学中的几个重要问题。首先，它通过详细分析来自边缘化群体的妇女和妇女活动家的经历，为国家和亲密暴力问题带来了政治学视角。其次，这项研究将质疑黑人妇女作为理解黑人政治的关键角色的沉默。这种沉默有助于使关于种族、性别、暴力和公共/私人在政治思想、行动和正义方面的分歧的日常假设永久化。这项研究将记录新的趋势，并展示性别和种族如何以及为什么在解决国家暴力问题方面至关重要。 特别是，这项研究将扩大国家暴力数据收集的类别，其中可以纳入了解种族边缘化妇女如何经历和理解国家暴力的重要性。这项工作可以作为一个参考点，以制定更好的国际、国家和地方对策，使国家和机构对暴力和不公正负责，从而有助于为所有人创造一个更加民主和公正的社会。此外，将与这两个组织分享这项研究的结果，作为实地工作的基础。此外，这项研究的结果可以帮助解决分配正义和支持非洲裔妇女的需要，以及继续研究性别反黑人和国家暴力的问题。反黑人的国家暴力是整个美洲普遍存在的问题。新兴的奖学金审查这一现象的性别层面重新审视反黑人国家暴力和暴力侵害妇女之间的联系。这部作品借鉴了工作思想的悠久历史，考察了国家渗透、侵犯和控制黑人妇女身体、家庭和家庭的亲密领域的方式。因此，本项目探讨了亲密关系在当代反黑人暴力和黑人动员中的作用。从非洲裔巴西人和非洲裔哥伦比亚妇女的原始民族志的见解，本论文提出了三个论点。首先，国家暴力侵犯了亲密空间：家庭和人际关系，因此是一种亲密暴力。第二，当黑人妇女叙述这些暴力行为时，她们发展了一种新的理解国家的方式：她们展示了国家是如何通过亲密侵犯的手段[重建]的。因此，虽然黑人妇女的账户揭示了国家暴力是亲密的方式，但她们的声音和组织也表明这些空间是如何创造新形式的知识和抵抗的重要场所。第三，黑人妇女在反黑人暴力方面的经历往往是通过集体透镜来表达和解释的，黑人妇女不仅使用亲密的语言来描述国家暴力的经历，而且还[重新]要求亲密的领域来赋予自己、家人和社区权力。这些导致了一种集体亲密的政治，这提供了一种抵制国家暴力的方式，让社区和家庭成员承担责任，并设想超越国家的正义。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This research addresses several significant questions in social science research and political science in particular. First, it brings a political science perspective to the issue of state and intimate violence by providing a detailed analysis of the experiences of women and women-activists from a marginalized group. Second, this research will contest the silences surrounding Black women as key actors for understanding Black Politics. Such silences help to perpetuate everyday assumptions about race, gender, violence and the public/private divide with regards to political thinking, action, and justice. The research will document new trends and demonstrate how, and why, gender and race are pivotal in addressing the issue of state violence. In particular, this research will broaden categories for data collection for state violence, which can incorporate the importance of understanding how racially marginalized women experience and understand state violence. This work can be a point of reference for creating better international, national, and local responses that hold states and institutions accountable for violence and injustice, which could therefore help to create a more democratic and just society for all. In addition, the results of this study will be shared with the two organizations with that provide the basis of the fieldwork. In addition, the results of this study can help to address the needs for distributive justice and support for Afro-descendant women as well as for continued research on the topic of gendered anti-blackness and state violence. Anti-Black state violence is a pervasive problem throughout the Americas. Emerging scholarship examining the gendered dimensions of this phenomenon revisit the links between anti-Black state violence and violence against women. This body of work draws on the long history of work thought examining the ways that the state infiltrates, violates, and controls black women's intimate spheres of the body, the home, and the family. As such, this project examines the role of intimacy in contemporary manifestations of anti-black violence and Black mobilizations. Drawing on original ethnographic insights from Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Colombian women, this dissertation posits three arguments. First, state violence invades intimate spaces: the home and relationships--and is, therefore, a form of intimate violence. Second, when Black women narrate these acts of violence, they develop a new way of understanding the state: they show how the state is [re]constituted by means of intimate violations. Thus while Black women's accounts unveil the ways in which state violence is intimate, their voices and organizing also demonstrate how these spaces are important sites for creating new forms of knowledge and resistance. Third, Black women's experiences with anti-black violence are often articulated and interpreted through a collective lens, whereby Black women not only use a language of intimacy to describe experiences with state violence, but also [re]claim domains of the intimate to empower themselves, their families, and their communities. these result in a politic of collective intimacy, which provides a way to resist state violence, hold community and family members accountable, and envision justice beyond the state.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.