Doctoral Dissertation Research: Embodied Geopolitics of Everyday Life in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

博士论文研究：波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那莫斯塔尔日常生活的具体地缘政治

• 批准号: 1129790
• 负责人: John Jones
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1129790&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Embodied; Geopolitics

In order to comprehend what processes are involved in solidifying, as well as dissolving ethnic identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), this doctoral dissertation research project focuses on the daily activities and rituals that embody a particular ethnic identity, as well as emotions that accompany them. Complexities of ethnic identity in the region of former Yugoslavia are almost always associated with the brutal conflict that occurred in the 1990s. Dominant political discourses on ethnicity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in particular, are marked with attempts to naturalize opposition between different ethnicities, as well as legitimize violence and creation of ethnically homogeneous areas. Ethnosectarian ideology permeates all structures and institutions of Bosnian society, from political and educational institutions to religious and cultural ones; most of all, it heavily structures the everyday life of people in Bosnia. As such, this project seeks to study the mundane practices of what has been called the "geopolitics of everyday life"; specifically, this research examines not only what particular people are doing in particular places in their daily life, but also the much under-studied issue of what they feel and what emotions they are experiencing in these settings. The research is a primarily qualitative investigation of daily life, based on deployment of multiple methods such as participant observation, walk-alongs, interviews and space-time-emotion diary. The site of the study is a town of Mostar, located in southwestern BiH. It is a historic setting, the contemporary socio-spatial landscape of which is the product of war atrocities, competing nationalist ideologies, and a volatile political climate created under the administrative ethnic partitioning of post-Dayton BiH, during which the town was segregated into a "Bosniak/Muslim" east and a "Croat/Catholic" west.The dissertation advances our knowledge of the relationships between emotions, affect, and geopolitics; for, among several criticisms of affect's non-representational theories is the claim that it has not been used to understand problems of real social and political importance. In addition, this research deploys, in the study of the affective and emotional dimensions of the built environment, an innovative methodology developed in psychology; in particular the project uses an established projective technique that enables the assessment of emotions and affect during participants' daily activities. In this way, this research advances methodologies of affect and emotion in geography. More broadly, the insights gained from this study will contribute to our understanding of the current challenges of multiculturalism throughout Europe. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.

为了理解凝固的过程以及在波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那（BIH）中溶解族裔身份，该博士学位论文研究项目的重点是体现特定种族认同的日常活动和仪式，以及伴随他们的情绪。前南斯拉夫地区种族认同的复杂性几乎总是与1990年代发生的残酷冲突有关。尤其是在波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那（BIH）的种族种族的主要政治话语，并以试图在不同种族之间的反对以及使暴力合法化和建立种族同质地区合法化的尝试标记。民族的意识形态渗透到波斯尼亚社会的所有结构和机构，从政治和教育机构到宗教和文化机构；最重要的是，它在波斯尼亚人民的日常生活中构成了大量构建。因此，该项目旨在研究所谓的“日常生活地缘政治”的平凡实践。具体来说，这项研究不仅研究了特定人在日常生活中的特定地方所做的事情，而且还研究了他们在这些情况下的感受以及他们所经历的情感的众多问题。 这项研究是基于参与者观察，步行，访谈和时空情感日记等多种方法的部署，主要是对日常生活的定性研究。该研究的地点是位于比希西南部的莫斯塔尔小镇。这是一个历史性的环境，当代的社会空间景观是战争暴行的产物，竞争性的民族主义意识形态以及在末日比尔的行政种族划分下创造的动荡的政治气候，在此期间，该镇逐渐逐渐隔离到“波斯尼亚克（Bosniak）/穆斯林（Bosniak/semist）”的知识和态度，以实现“ creot”的关系。地缘政治；因为，在对影响非代表性理论的几种批评中，声称它没有被用来理解真正的社会和政治重要性的问题。此外，这项研究在研究建筑环境的情感和情感维度的研究中，这是一种在心理学中开发的创新方法。特别是该项目使用已建立的投影技术，可以评估参与者日常活动期间的情绪和影响。通过这种方式，这项研究在地理学中发展了情感和情感的方法论。更广泛地说，从这项研究中获得的见解将有助于我们理解欧洲当前的多元文化主义挑战。作为博士学位论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生能够建立强大的独立研究职业。