A Different Kind of War Story: Centering Love and Care in Peace and Conflict Studies

不同类型的战争故事：以和平与冲突研究为中心的爱与关怀

基本信息

批准号：
AH/X001725/1
负责人：
Roxani Krystalli
金额：
$ 35.65万
依托单位：
University of St Andrews
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2023 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX001725%2F1
关键词：
Different Kind War Story Centering

项目摘要

Relations and practices of love and care shape how people make sense of and survive experiences of violence. In the midst and wake of armed conflict, people continue to forge intimate relationships, fall in love, and extend different forms of care to one another. Yet, narratives about armed conflict predominantly focus on harms and suffering. This project asks: How can centering love and care change scholarly and policy understandings of conflict and peace?Love and care are active practices, not passive emotions. Through in-depth, qualitative fieldwork in Uganda and Colombia, we will explore how conflict-affected individuals and communities experience, understand, and practice love and care. We will also investigate how these practices shape how people make sense of violence and remake worlds in its wake. Building on scholarly literature on the ethics of care, the anthropology of love, and emotions in world politics, the project will analyze how love and care illuminate different meanings of politics and the political in the context of armed conflict and peacebuilding. Recognizing that love and care also shape researchers' relationships to their identity and subject matter, we will further examine how these practices underpin and sustain the work of scholars of violence. We do not deny the importance of ongoing studies of harm and injustice; rather, we make the case for the significance of considering practices of love and care alongside violence. Theoretically and analytically, a focus on love and care can shift our sense of what peace looks and feels like, where it takes place, who is involved in the making of it, when violence ends and peace begins, and how violence lives on and transforms people's lives. This contribution reflects a feminist approach to violence and peace research, which calls for investigating these subjects in ways that go beyond the formal, official actors and actions associated with political violence and peacebuilding. Ethically and methodologically, this project responds to emerging calls for scholars of violence to move beyond damage-centered research in favor of also meaningfully engaging with the forces and relations that sustain life.

爱与关怀的关系和实践塑造了人们如何理解和生存暴力的经历。在武装冲突之中，人们继续建立亲密的关系，坠入爱河，并将不同形式的护理扩展到彼此之间。然而，关于武装冲突的叙述主要集中在危害和苦难上。该项目问：居中爱与关怀如何改变学术和对冲突与和平的政策理解？爱与关怀是积极的做法，而不是被动的情绪。通过深入的，乌干达和哥伦比亚的定性野外工作，我们将探讨受冲突影响的个人和社区如何体验，理解和实践爱与关怀。我们还将调查这些实践如何塑造人们如何在其尾声中理解暴力和重制世界。该项目基于有关护理伦理，爱的人类学以及情感的人类学的基础，该项目将分析在武装冲突与建设和平的背景下，爱与照料如何照亮政治的不同含义和政治意义。认识到爱与关怀也塑造了研究人员对他们的身份和主题的关系，我们将进一步研究这些实践如何支撑和维持暴力学者的工作。我们不否认正在进行的伤害和不公正研究的重要性；相反，我们为考虑爱与关怀的实践以及暴力行为的重要性提出了理由。从理论和分析上讲，对爱与关怀的关注可以改变我们对和平的外表，发生在哪里，参与局限的人的感觉，何时结束和和平的开始，以及暴力如何生活和改变人们的生活。这项贡献反映了一种女性主义的暴力与和平研究方法，该方法呼吁以超越正式，官方参与者的方式调查这些主题，以及与政治暴力与建设和平相关的行动。从道德上和方法上讲，该项目回应了新兴的呼吁对暴力学者的呼吁超越以损害为中心的研究，而同时也有意义地与维持生命的力量和关系互动。