Life Lived in Relief: Experiences with Humanitarianism Since 1948

救济生活：1948 年以来的人道主义经历

• 批准号: 1026287
• 负责人: Ilana Feldman
• 金额: $ 24.98万
• 依托单位: George Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1026287&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Life; Lived; Relief; Experiences; Humanitarianism

This project is designed to understand the nature of politics in contexts of extended humanitarian assistance. It explores the importance of relief practices in the development of political identity in exile. As such, it departs from a recent emphasis in the literature on the de-politicizing effects of humanitarianism, which reduces refugees to merely focused on immediate survival. The researcher will collect data to answer three questions: (1) How does politics emerge in the context of a struggle for physical survival?; (2) What are the noninstitutionalized means through which people express political ideas and make political claims?; and, (3) How is "community" produced across a diffuse humanitarian terrain? The project will involve archival research, oral histories, and ethnographic fieldwork with refugees and the agencies and organizations that provide assistance to them. This research is both multi-sited and long-term, making it possible to track change over time and to identify the distinctions of particular geographic locations.The research will shed light on the long-term effects of humanitarian interventions. A better understanding of the impact of long-term humanitarian assistance on refugee communities is vital for both academic and policy communities.

该项目旨在理解在扩大人道主义援助的背景下政治的本质。它探讨了救济实践在流放中政治身份发展中的重要性。因此，它偏离了有关人道主义的去政治化影响的文献的最近重点，这使难民仅关注立即生存。研究人员将收集数据回答三个问题：（1）在为身体生存而奋斗的背景下，政治如何出现？ （2）人们通过哪些人表达政治思想并提出政治主张的方式是什么？ （3）如何在人道主义地形中产生“社区”？ 该项目将涉及与难民以及为其提供帮助的机构和组织的档案研究，口述历史以及民族志实地调查。这项研究既是多人的又长期，因此可以随着时间的流逝跟踪变化并确定特定地理位置的区别。研究将阐明人道主义干预的长期影响。更好地理解长期人道主义援助对难民社区的影响对于学术和政策社区都至关重要。