Collaborative Research: How do histories of violence shape affect and experience?

暴力以微妙和明显的方式严重和长期地影响个人和社区健康。即使在不再受直接暴力影响的地区，暴力的历史遗产也可能给经历过暴力的人造成挥之不去的创伤。这些创伤可以传染给那些没有受到暴力影响的人。本研究项目探讨暴力的区域和时间历史如何影响直接或间接受暴力影响的个人的情绪反应和持续经历。利用文化人类学和地理学的理论，该项目将通过考虑暴力在时间和空间上如何继续引发受影响社区的情绪反应，为更多的创新科学做出贡献。该项目拓宽了高素质少数族裔学生进入顶尖研究生项目的渠道。它将在一个为少数民族服务的机构建立科学基础设施，并通过让公众获得研究成果来提高公众的科学素养。调查人员试图回答以下问题：1)暴力历史的变化如何影响相关景观中嵌入的危险和安全观念？暴力的遗产和持续的动态如何反映在人体和地理空间中？如何重建公共历史以解释这些遗产和持续的动态？共同pi和他们的学生研究小组将在14个具有不同暴力历史的社区进行为期三年的民族志研究。该小组将确定、收集和汇总与暴力有关的现有空间数据和地图；受影响的社区，以及它们随时间的动态。为了进行比较，研究人员将对研究地点的人们进行一系列访谈。研究结果将提供与减少暴力对人类社会造成的负担有关的见解。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Violence affects individual and community health in both subtle and obvious ways, acutely and over the long term. Even in areas that are no longer impacted by direct violence, historical legacies of violence can cause lingering trauma among those who experienced it. These traumas can be transmitted to individuals who were not otherwise affected by violence. This research project addresses the question of how regional and temporal histories of violence affect emotional responses and ongoing experiences of individuals affected -directly or indirectly - by violence. Using theory from cultural anthropology and geography, the project will contribute to more innovative science by considering how violence over time and space continues to elicit emotional responses in affected communities. The project widens the pipeline of highly qualified minority students into leading graduate programs. It will build scientific infrastructure at a minority-serving institution and increase public literacy of science by making findings publicly accessible. The investigators seek to answer the following questions: 1) How does variation in the history of violence affect perceptions of danger and safety embedded in associated landscapes? How are legacies and ongoing dynamics of violence reflected in the human body and in geographic space? How can public histories be re-constructed to account for these legacies and ongoing dynamics? The Co-PIs and their teams of student researchers will conduct ethnographic research over a three-year period in fourteen communities with variable histories of violence. The team will identify, collect, and aggregate existing spatial data and maps related to violence; affected communities, and their dynamics over time. For comparative perspective, the researchers will conduct a range of interviews with people across study sites. The results will provide insights relevant to decreasing the burden of violence on human societies.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.