Doctoral Dissertation Research: Intergenerational Memory Practices and Social Transformation

在过去几十年中，代际记忆和创伤已成为关于冲突后恢复的辩论中的关键术语。创伤最初被概念化为一种令人震惊的经历，无法融入主体的意识记忆，现在指的是异常痛苦的经历，或记忆的创伤，深刻地塑造了集体和个人的身份。暴力行为受害者及其后代从心理学和神经生物学两方面提出了关于创伤的论点，以获得社会承认，并获得心理社会和物质资源。然而，对代际记忆和创伤的常识性理解很大程度上基于对大规模暴力的一系列狭隘的范式研究。这个项目测试选择偏见是否会阻碍这些主张的有效性。该项目除了为培训一名人类学研究生提供资金，使其掌握经验性科学数据收集和分析方法外，还将通过向投资于使用循证媒体制作的组织广泛传播其调查结果，以增进对科学的了解，从而了解危机后社区干预措施并为之提供信息。在芝加哥大学的詹妮弗科尔博士的指导下，本书将探讨不同的社会历史条件是否以及在多大程度上塑造了记忆和创伤的经历和分享方式。冲突后对历史暴力、心理健康和社会差异的理解如何演变？什么样的做法能够使个人和集体在暴力发生后解决问题，这些做法如何随着时间的推移而改变？研究人员将通过对冲突后背景下代际记忆实践、创伤和社会对抗的民族志调查来探索这些问题。超过15个月，使用一系列的民族志和语言学的数据收集和分析技术（包括访谈，参与者观察，档案分析，和协作解释），她将跟踪和跨三个多代青年为重点的组织，以及在大众媒体和政策层面的官方和非官方的记忆实践的工作。研究人员将探索记忆和创伤是如何被唤起并与不同的背景相关的，研究人员将调查一系列规范性和结构性的社会关系是否通过记忆的实践被复制或重新想象。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为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来支持。

Over the past several decades, intergenerational memory and trauma have become key terms in debates about post-conflict recovery. Originally conceptualized as an experience so shocking it cannot be integrated into a subject's conscious memory, trauma now refers to extra-ordinarily painful experiences, or wounds to memory, which profoundly shape both collective and individual identity. Victims of violence and their descendants have mobilized both psychological and neurobiological arguments about trauma to gain social recognition, as well as access psychosocial and material resources. However, commonsense understandings of intergenerational memory and trauma are largely based on a narrow set of paradigmatic studies of mass-violence. This project tests whether that selection bias impedes the efficacy of those claims. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, the project would enhance scientific understanding by broadly disseminating its findings to organizations invested in the use of evidence-based media production to understand and inform post-crisis community interventions.Zoe Berman, under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Cole of the University of Chicago will explore whether, and if so, to what extent, different sociohistorical conditions shape the ways in which memories and trauma are experienced and shared. How do understandings of historic violence, mental health, and social difference evolve after conflict? What practices enable individual and collective resolution after violence, and how do these practices change over time? The researcher will explore such questions through an ethnographic investigation of intergenerational memory practices, trauma, and social antagonism in a post-conflict context. Over 15 months, using a range of ethnographic and linguistic techniques of data collection and analysis (including interviews, participant observation, archival analysis, and collaborative interpretation), she will track the work of official and unofficial memory practices within and across three multi-generational youth-focused organizations, as well as in popular media and at the level of policy. Exploring how memories and trauma are evoked and made relevant to different contexts, the researcher will investigate whether a range of normative and structural social relationships are reproduced or re-imagined through practices of remembering.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.