Colonial Encounters in France, 1918-1946: Defining Identities through Colonial Space.

我打算研究从法国两次世界大战期间到1946年法国殖民帝国制度被取代期间法国平民和法国殖民士兵之间的关系。我的研究首先旨在分析法国社会和政治辩论围绕法国殖民士兵和种族主义的“施瓦茨施坦德”运动在德国。我认为，这些遭遇引发了对殖民边界的重新定义，作为回应，法国殖民当局在保卫欧洲边境上的殖民士兵和维持殖民机构上的种族和殖民边界之间摇摆不定。我的第二个研究兴趣围绕性别、身体和身份的交叉，通过分析法国殖民士兵与法国公民的关系，特别是不同社会阶层的法国妇女。由于法国殖民士兵和法国妇女的身体被视为宣传国家性别、种族、殖民和分类思想的关键场所，这些关系表明了法国社会规则的颠覆，并进一步扰乱了法兰西帝国的性别、殖民和种族界限。我的研究项目挑战殖民档案的不对称性，将它们重新定位为法国及其殖民空间内部和外部身份识别过程形成的社会参与者。它重述了以前在法国历史更广泛的话语中被沉默的声音，并提供了一部更详尽的历史。

I intend to research the relationships between French civilians and French colonial soldiers from the interwar period inFrance until the replacement of the French colonial empire system in 1946. My research first aims to analyze Frenchsocial and political debates surrounding French colonial soldiers and the racist "Schwarze Schande" campaign inGermany. These encounters, I argue, provoked a redefinition of colonial borders in response to which French colonialauthorities vacillated between the defense of colonial soldiers on European borders and the maintenance of racial andcolonial boundaries on colonial bodies. My second research interest encompasses the intersections of gender, body, andidentity through an analysis of French colonial soldiers' relationships with French citizens, particularly French women ofdiverse social strata. Since French colonial soldiers' and French women's bodies were viewed as crucial sites to promotethe state's gender, racial, colonial, and classist ideas, these relationships demonstrated the subversion of France's socialregulations and further disrupted the French empire's gendered, colonial, and racial boundaries. My research projectchallenges the asymmetry of the colonial archives by repositioning them as social actors in the formation of internal andexternal identification processes in France and its colonial space. It recenters voices previously silenced within Frenchhistory's broader discourse and provides a more exhaustive history.