WomenhuNET: Women's Transnational Humanitarian Networks. Anti-Fascist British Women and Europe Refugees (1900-1950)

WomenhuNET：妇女跨国人道主义网络。

• 批准号: EP/Y028341/1
• 负责人: Peter Philip Anderson
• 金额: $ 25.55万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 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=EP%2FY028341%2F1
• 关键词: WomenhuNET; Women; Transnational; Humanitarian; Networks.

British women played a vital but largely overlooked role in saving anti-fascist activists and European refugees in the 1930s and 1940s.However, the existing historiography tends to understand these women solely within the British context and not within thetransnational, European networks in which they operated. Yet we argue that British women's humanitarian activism was configuredas a network, had a transnational dimension and brought together the postulates of early 20th century feminism and 1930s antifascism.Accordingly, WomenhuNET focuses on analysing the trajectories of British women who mobilised to help refugees fleeingfascism, with the aim of reconstructing the women's transnational humanitarian networks in which their activism was inserted. Thisapproach will also help us better understand the origins of the European Union, and the place of the UK in these beginnings, which inpart grew out of the anti-fascist tradition and the defence of democratic values. This project will address three main questions: whatsocial and political pathways led British women to become involved in anti-fascist refugee relief campaigns and what was thetransformative impact of their actions and rhetoric?, which transnational networks they were part of during their anti-fascisthumanitarian activism? and what identities, power and authority they developed during and after their humanitarian experience andhow gender and the transnational action shaped them? Following a methodology of micro-historical and transnational analysis, wewill work with a large corpus of primary sources scarcely explored to date, deposited in archives of the UK, Spain, France, Switzerland,Netherlands and the US. The results will be disseminated in a variety of ways, notably through an international conference, an articlein high-impact journals and a book submitted to a major university press.

在 1930 年代和 1940 年代，英国妇女在拯救反法西斯活动家和欧洲难民方面发挥了至关重要但在很大程度上被忽视的作用。然而，现有的历史编纂倾向于仅在英国背景下理解这些妇女，而不是在她们活动的跨国欧洲网络中理解这些妇女。 。然而，我们认为，英国妇女的人道主义行动是一个网络，具有跨国维度，汇集了 20 世纪初女权主义和 1930 年代反法西斯主义的假设。因此，WomenhuNET 重点分析英国妇女的轨迹，这些妇女动员起来帮助难民逃离法西斯主义，其目标是重建妇女跨国人道主义网络，将她们的行动融入其中。这种方法还将帮助我们更好地理解欧盟的起源，以及英国在这些起源中的地位，这在一定程度上源于反法西斯传统和对民主价值观的捍卫。该项目将解决三个主要问题：哪些社会和政治途径导致英国妇女参与反法西斯难民救济运动，她们的行动和言论产生了哪些变革性影响？她们在反法西斯人道主义行动期间参与了哪些跨国网络？他们在人道主义经历期间和之后发展了哪些身份、权力和权威？性别和跨国行动如何塑造了他们？遵循微观历史和跨国分析的方法，我们将使用迄今为止几乎没有探索过的大量原始资料，这些资料存放在英国、西班牙、法国、瑞士、荷兰和美国的档案馆中。研究结果将以多种方式传播，特别是通过国际会议、高影响力期刊上的文章以及提交给主要大学出版社的书籍。