The Black Lives Matter Movement: Transnational Activism and the Role of Neo-Liberal Urbanism.

该项目旨在了解黑人生命物质（BLM）运动的跨国主义。虽然一个小机构的工作已经解决了BLM在美国，问题的transnationalism一直被忽视，在当前的学术文献。这为我提供了一个独特的机会，成为第一个批判性地调查BLM作为一个跨国运动。BLM运动已经在城市环境中最明显地确立了自己的地位，我的项目探索了新自由主义城市主义和BLM行动主义之间的关系。关键问题是：为什么一个起源于美国“小镇”的运动会在跨国活动家中引起共鸣？新自由主义城市化在增加跨国BLM中扮演了什么角色？跨国BLM运动的优势和挑战是什么？在不同的城市背景下，地方对BLM运动的理解和实施有什么不同？跨国BLMactivism在打击种族主义和不平等方面有多有效？我将使用多站点的民族志，探讨在伦敦，悉尼和温哥华的BLM活动。多站点方法还可以洞察不同问题可能出现的时间和空间上的不均衡地理位置。这些城市将提供政治见解，为什么以及如何BLM与活动家产生共鸣，以及使这成为可能的网络类型。我的研究将突出种族和城市化之间的关系至关重要。

This project seeks to understand the transnationalism of the Black Lives Matter (BLM)movement. While a small body of work has addressed BLM in the US, the issue oftransnationalism has been neglected in the current academic literature. This provides aunique opportunity for me to be amongst the first to critically investigate BLM as atransnational movement. The BLM movement has established itself most clearly in urbancontexts, and my project explores the relationship between neo-liberal urbanism andBLM activism. Key questions are: why did a movement originating in 'small town' Americaresonate with activists transnationally? What role has neo-liberal urbanism played increating a transnational BLM? What are the advantages and challenges of a transnationalBLM movement? What difference does place make to how the BLM movement isunderstood and enacted in different urban contexts? How effective is transnational BLMactivism in combatting racism and inequalities?I will use multi-sited ethnography to explore BLM activism in London, Sydney andVancouver. The multi-site approach also enables insight into the uneven geographies ofactivism across time and space where different issues may come to the fore. These citieswill provide political insight into why and how BLM has resonated with activists, and thetypes of networks that have made this possible. My research will highlight the criticalimportance of the relationship between race and urbanism.