Everyday Internationalism: The German Democratic Republic and Postcolonial World

日常国际主义：德意志民主共和国和后殖民世界

• 批准号: ES/W005816/1
• 负责人: George Bodie
• 金额: $ 12.13万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW005816%2F1
• 关键词: Everyday; Internationalism; German; Democratic; Republic; Everyday; Internationalism; German; Democratic; Republic

State-led solidarity campaigns were a central feature of everyday life in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) throughout its existence. Evidence suggests that from the 1970s onward, over 90% of the East German population made monthly donations to the trade union-run solidarity committee. These donations were used to fund various manifestations of material solidarity with organisations, states and movements in Latin America, Africa and Asia, from student scholarships to the building of hospitals. This solidarity culture was a central subject of my PhD, which explored decolonisation as a social field between citizen and state in the GDR. The realities of this practice and its legacies in unified Germany remain underexplored in both academic literature and in the non-academic world. This fellowship will allow me to build upon research carried out for my PhD to disseminate my findings and engage in knowledge exchange with a variety of academic and non-academic partners, as well as exploring solidarity further via the carrying out of a pilot study, interviewing East German citizens and former workers in the solidarity nexus. With the expert mentorship of Dr Celia Donert, the Fellowship would allow me to further my track record of knowledge exchange, research dissemination and impact in three key ways:First, I will continue to disseminate my PhD research, publishing a monograph with Cornell University Press based on my doctoral thesis. This monograph will explore the social dimensions of solidarity as a political field between citizen and state in the GDR. In addition, I will organise two interdisciplinary events to interrogate the concept of transnational solidarity: a symposium, held at the University of Cambridge, and conference panel at the annual BASEES conference.Second, I will continue to build bridges between academia and the non-academic world, via two specific projects. I will make the results of my research accessible to social justice practitioners and activists, allowing them to use real life historical examples of the practice and theory of transnational solidarity to inform their current practice. I will do this via a workshop organised with a social justice organisation such as Journey to Justice, Global Justice Now, or trade unions with international links, such as Unite. I will also seek to promote a more nuanced and historically informed discussion regarding the topic of solidarity in German civil society via the publishing of a short text on solidarity with the State Centre for Political Education in Thuringia. This impact will be furthered by the production of learning resource that I will co-produce with the education and research department of the German state agency (BStU) responsible for the archive of the GDR secret police, which will be used by school and civil society groups to explore how authoritarianism and solidarity coexisted in the GDR. A webinar, hosted in April 2022, will serve to publicise and disseminate this learning resource.Third, the fellowship will enable me to continue to have impact on both academic and non-academic worlds by providing the funding and training necessary to begin exploratory further research. As a fellow, I will carry out a pilot study set of interviews with former GDR citizens, using training obtained in Social Network Analysis (SNA) to identify the key figures, structures, and relationships in GDR solidarity culture as well as narrative research to seek to reconstruct and explore memories of the everyday experience of state-run solidarity campaigns in the GDR. Using this pilot study as a basis for further study, I will applying for further postdoctoral funding, such as Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship or British Academy Early Career Fellowship.

国家主导的团结运动是德国民主共和国（GDR）在整个生存过程中的日常生活的核心特征。有证据表明，从1970年代开始，超过90％的东德人口每月向工会经营的团结委员会捐款。这些捐款用于资助从学生奖学金到建立医院的拉丁美洲，非洲和亚洲的组织，州和运动的各种体现。这种团结文化是我博士学位的核心主题，它探讨了GDR中公民与州之间的社会领域的非殖民化。在学术文献和非学术世界中，这种实践及其在统一德国的遗产的现实尚未得到充实。这项奖学金将使我能够在为我的博士学位传播我的发现并与各种学术和非学术伙伴进行知识交流的研究基础上，并通过进行试点研究，采访东德公民和前努力工作的工人，进一步探索团结。在Celia Donert博士的专家指导下，奖学金将使我能够以三种关键的方式进一步进一步的知识交流，研究传播和影响的记录：首先，我将继续根据我的博士学位论文来传播我的博士学位研究，并在康奈尔大学出版社上发表专着。该专着将探索团结的社会层面，作为GDR中公民与国家之间的政治领域。此外，我将组织两个跨学科事件，以审问跨国团结的概念：在剑桥大学举行的研讨会，在年度基础会议上举行的会议小组。第二，我将继续通过两个特定的项目在学术界和非律师事务所之间建立桥梁。我将使社会正义从业人员和激进主义者可以访问我的研究结果，从而使他们能够使用现实生活中的历史例子和跨国团结理论来告知他们当前的实践。我将通过与社会正义组织组织的研讨会来做到这一点，例如司法旅程，全球正义之旅或具有国际联系的工会，例如Unite。我还将寻求通过出版有关在图林基州政治教育的国家政治中心的简短文字来促进有关德国民间社会团结的更加细微和历史知名的讨论。我将与负责GDR秘密警察档案档案的德国国家机构（BSTU）共同生产学习资源的生产将进一步影响，这将被学校和民间社会团体使用，以探索如何在GDR中共存的威权主义和团结。 2022年4月举办的网络研讨会将有助于宣传和传播这一学习资源。三分之一，奖学金将使我能够通过提供必要的资金和培训来开始探索性进一步研究，从而继续对学术和非学术世界产生影响。作为同伴，我将使用在社交网络分析（SNA）中获得的培训进行试点研究，以确定GDR团结文化中的关键人物，结构和关系，以及叙事研究，以寻求重建和探索GDR中州立团结运动的日常经验的记忆。使用这项试点研究作为进一步研究的基础，我将申请进一步的博士后资金，例如Leverhulme早期职业奖学金或英国学院早期职业奖学金。