Doctoral Dissertation Research: Reproductive Subjectivity in the Context of Displacement

博士论文研究：流离失所背景下的生殖主体性

• 批准号: 1918350
• 负责人: Thomas Csordas
• 金额: $ 1.51万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1918350&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Reproductive; Subjectivity

The universal human process of reproduction is imbued with diverse religious, social, and cultural meanings. The interactions, negotiations, and contestations that surround reproductive decisions are a rich source of ethnographic data that speaks to the most intimate aspects of experience, not only in terms of gender roles, marriage, family, and kinship but also in relation to foundational notions of self, personhood, and meaning. Studying reproduction thus reveals many of the fundamental cultural models and interpretive frameworks that individuals use to define what constitutes a good life and strive towards it. Social scientific research on war and displacement has shown how these experiences can transform the cultural frameworks through which individuals interpret and remake their worlds, form novel subjectivities, or cultivate new desires. This project, which trains a graduate student in scientific methods of rigorous data collection and analysis, explores a specific intersection of two domains of human experience: the nearly universal experience of reproduction and the increasingly widespread condition of displacement.Morgen Chalmiers, under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Csordas of the University of California at San Diego, will explore what factors influence reproductive practices in the context of displacement. It has been well documented that displacement can influence the reproductive experience by disrupting the social and familial networks through which reproductive life is facilitated and made meaningful. But other research has shown that displacement can have a paradoxical effect on fertility patterns, as precarity creates a desire to rebuild kinship and social networks. In seeking to understand in what ways precarity may shape subjectivity, this project examines the context of Syrian displacement, where since the civil war began in 2011, five and a half million Syrians have fled their home country and are now living as refugees. This project explores the intersubjective processes through which Syrian women reconcile histories of trauma and violence with the human imperative to create new meaning in disrupted lives. Over 12 months of ethnographic and person-centered, qualitative interviews fieldwork with displaced Syrian families living in Jordan, this project will ask how reproductive desires and practices are reshaped by the context of displacement. Research at such a junction reveals the creative ways in which individuals cope with the challenges of displacement despite loss and adversity.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

人类繁殖的普遍过程充满了多种宗教，社会和文化含义。围绕生殖决策的互动，谈判和竞争是人种学数据的丰富来源，不仅在性别角色，婚姻，家庭和亲属关系方面都表明了经验最亲密的方面，而且还与自我，人格和意义的基础概念有关。因此，研究繁殖揭示了个人用来定义构成美好生活并努力实现它的许多基本文化模型和解释性框架。关于战争和流离失所的社会科学研究表明，这些经历如何改变个人解释和重塑世界，形成新型主观或培养新欲望的文化框架。该项目培训了一名研究生的科学方法，以严格的数据收集和分析培训了人类经验的两个领域的特定相交：在加利福尼亚大学在加利福尼亚大学的托马斯·科萨尔斯（Thomas csordas）的监督下，在加利福尼亚大学（San Diego）的托马斯·科萨尔斯（Thomas Csordas）的监督下，将探索造成的影响力，在探索方面的范围会探索，探索了造成的影响力，在托马斯·托马斯（Thomas csordas）的监督下，近乎繁殖的普遍经验和越来越普遍的流离失所条件。已经有充分的文献证明，流离失所可以通过破坏促进生殖生活的社会和家族网络来影响生殖体验，并有意义。但是其他研究表明，流离失所可能会对生育模式产生矛盾的影响，因为不稳定会产生重建亲属关系和社交网络的愿望。在寻求理解什么方式可能塑造主观性的方式时，该项目研究了叙利亚流离失所的背景，自2011年内战以来，五十万叙利亚人逃离了自己的祖国，现在是难民。该项目探讨了叙利亚妇女与人类必须在破坏生活中创造新含义的创伤和暴力历史的主体间过程。在12个月的民族志和以人为中心的定性访谈中，该项目将与居住在约旦流离失所的叙利亚家庭进行实地调查，该项目将询问如何通过流离失所的背景来重塑生殖欲望和实践。这种交界处的研究揭示了尽管损失和逆境，个人应对流离失所的挑战的创造性方式。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。