Doctoral Dissertation Research: An Anthropological Investigation of the Legal Doctrine of Self-Determination in the Context of Decolonization

博士论文研究：非殖民化背景下自决法律学说的人类学调查

• 批准号: 1322129
• 负责人: Gary Wilder
• 金额: $ 2.53万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1322129&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Anthropological; Investigation

City University of New York-Graduate Center doctoral student Mark Drury, with the guidance of Dr. Gary Wilder, will research the process and effects of applying - or attempting to apply - the legal doctrine of self-determination in the context of decolonization. This proposal examines UN-led efforts during the 1990s to hold a referendum on self-determination in the Non-Self-Governing Territory of Western Sahara. By focusing on the formation and workings of the UN mission's Identification Commission, this research will consider the significance of self-determination from the perspective of both UN planners and those who participated in the registration process, including: "identification" sheikhs tasked with authorizing or denying the oral testimony of prospective voters, government-appointed observers, and prospective voters themselves. Drury's research will contribute to understandings of how international legal concepts rely upon anthropological forms of knowledge in order to be applied in particular contexts. In addition, his attention to the failure of this particular attempt to apply self-determination will investigate the role of international law in resolving or sustaining political conflict. Where most studies focus on the limitations to international law as a problem of sovereignty and jurisdiction, this research will focus on the possibilities of, and limitations to, the legal concepts themselves.Drury will undertake 12 months of fieldwork, splitting time between New York, Laâyoune, Western Sahara, and a Polisario-run refugee camp in Algerian territory. He will collect data through (1) interviews with former personnel involved in MINURSO, UN's mission to Western Sahara, and its Identification Commission; (2) archival research of UN documents regarding the referendum planning process; (3) semi-structured interviews and oral histories from participants from all levels of the Identification Commission process; and (4) ethnographic observations from participant observation in private and public settings.The findings of this research will be relevant to political scientists and historians interested in the dynamics of decolonization, as well as to practitioners and scholars of political conflict and conflict resolution mechanisms. The research contributes to the training of a graduate student in anthropology.

纽约州立大学中央博士学位学生马克·德罗利（Mark Drooly）的宇宙在加里·怀尔德（Gary Wilder）博士的指导下，或者申请申请 - 在非殖民化的情况下，自我确定的法律学说。 1990年代，为了对联合国任务识别委员会的形成和运作，对西撒哈拉的自我保护领土进行了研究。在教会过程中：“识别” HS负责授权或否认准选民的口头证词，政府任命的观察者和准选民本身将有助于理解国际法律概念如何依赖人类法律概念的理解。要成为XT。 h将重点介绍法律概念本身的可能性和局限性。Drury将进行12个月的现场工作，在纽约，西撒哈拉沙漠和阿尔及利亚领土上的Polisario-and难民营之间分配时间。通过（1）联合国对西撒哈拉的特派团及其识别委员会的特派团；参与者在私人和公共场合进行观察。