Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Sociolegal Dynamics of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Marginalized Communities

博士论文研究：边缘化社区替代性争议解决的社会法律动态

• 批准号: 2314858
• 负责人: Michael Peletz
• 金额: $ 3.15万
• 依托单位: Emory University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314858&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Sociolegal; Dynamics

This research examines the role of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms within minority communities. This research specifically investigates diverse alternative judicial bodies with different legal and cultural outlooks why and how people use these extralegal systems, and how these judicial bodies are regulated by and interact with the state. In addition to supporting the training of a doctoral student, the proposal will be shared with legal practitioners, civil society organizations, and community activists working in alternative dispute resolution.This research examines the factors that lead people who use alternative justice bodies to view the decisions made by those bodies as binding and the cultural and legal dynamics that give these alternative judicial bodies their legitimacy, through a controlled analysis and comparison of two significant different sociolegal contexts. Broader questions are also asked about social and cultural network formation, and whether these vary between different minority communities. Ethnographic methods for this research include participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and archival research to explore why people turn to alternative judicial bodies, how these bodies and the state interact, and how different marginalized groups, such as women and refugees, use these alternative channels to navigate the dynamics of gender, justice, and the state. By investigating how minority groups negotiate alternative ways of seeking justice in their daily lives, this project contributes to the anthropology of law, anthropology of the state, and anthropology of gender and religion.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.

本研究探讨了少数群体社区内替代性纠纷解决机制的作用。这项研究专门调查了具有不同法律和文化观点的不同替代司法机构，人们为何以及如何使用这些法外系统，以及这些司法机构如何受到国家监管并与国家互动。 除了支持博士生的培训外，该提案还将与致力于替代性争议解决的法律从业者、民间社会组织和社区活动家分享。这项研究探讨了导致使用替代性司法机构的人们看待决策的因素通过对两个显着不同的社会法律背景进行受控分析和比较，这些机构制定了具有约束力的文化和法律动态，赋予这些替代司法机构合法性。还提出了有关社会和文化网络形成的更广泛的问题，以及这些网络在不同少数群体社区之间是否有所不同。这项研究的民族志方法包括参与观察、半结构化访谈和档案研究，以探讨人们为何求助于替代司法机构、这些机构与国家如何互动，以及不同的边缘群体（例如妇女和难民）如何使用这些替代司法机构引导性别、正义和国家动态的渠道。通过调查少数群体如何协商在日常生活中寻求正义的替代方式，该项目为法律人类学、国家人类学以及性别和宗教人类学做出了贡献。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为值得支持通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估。