Vicarious Remembrance: Identity, (In)Security, and the Politics of British War Commemoration

替代纪念：身份、安全和英国战争纪念的政治

基本信息

批准号：
ES/W006782/1
负责人：
Joseph Haigh
金额：
$ 11.69万
依托单位：
University of Warwick
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%2FW006782%2F1
关键词：
Vicarious Remembrance Identity Security Politics

项目摘要

Contemporary British political discourse abounds with declarations that 'we' won World War II. These are increasingly made by a population unborn at the time of the event, and without first-hand military experience. Instead, such claims frequently invoke genealogical - and vicarious - connections. While some of these have become a topic of public debate in recent years, they have received little attention from International Relations (IR) scholars. My research develops scholarship on war commemoration by exploring the functions, stakes, and politics of living vicariously through ancestral/national military exploits. By exploring the initiatives of the Royal British Legion and debates surrounding its red Poppy emblem, I explore the ways in which individuals, groups, and commercial entities have emphasised 'our' genealogical connections to past wars to assuage existential anxieties and establish claims to authentic national belonging. The proposed activities are designed to maximise the scholarly and public impact of my doctoral research and to provide a springboard for a research career within UK academia. Firstly, the Fellowship will allow me to prepare a book manuscript and attain dissemination of the thesis through peer-reviewed academic journals. It will allow me to develop papers which speak to disciplines beyond IR including memory studies, which until now has approached vicarious dynamics from a cultural heritage angle rather than a political one. Secondly, it will enable me to undertake limited additional research which will expand the horizons of my project. This additional research will form the basis for an article that will enable me to apply my work beyond war commemoration to consider how people live vicariously through contemporary military violence.During the Fellowship, I will participate in three academic conferences. Presenting a paper at the British International Studies Association (BISA) conference based on new research will enable me to incorporate feedback before submitting it for publication. To cultivate an interdisciplinary network conducive to future research collaboration beyond IR, I will present a paper based on my thesis at the Memory Studies Association conference. I will also develop my academic leadership skills and contribute to the collegiality of the profession by proposing panels for the BISA and European International Studies Association conferences, bringing together scholars from several disciplines to discuss British (war) commemoration and poppies in global politics respectively.The Fellowship will also enable me to share my research beyond academia. I will write articles about my research for The Conversation and The Guardian, both aimed at a general readership. In November, I will run three engagement events about remembrance. The first will bring together academic and NGO stakeholders for a one-day workshop to discuss war commemoration and its impact on broader commemorative culture - including memorialisation of the COVID-19 pandemic. Secondly, a 'Question Time'-stlyle debate on this topic will engage a wider Warwick and public audience. Thirdly, I will invite classes from two local schools to attend a one-day educational outreach event to learn about the politics of remembrance, thus developing my outreach experience. Finally, the Fellowship will be used to make the transition to the next phase of my career. I will develop a novel project proposal which expands the focus of my doctoral research to explore the impact of vicarious militarism on war preparedness. It will consider the ways in which vicarious dynamics both underpin and undermine British military recruitment efforts, thus rethinking existing scholarship viewing militarisation and war preparedness as necessarily mutually-reinforcing. The funding applications based on the proposal will be submitted to the Leverhulme Trust and the ESRC, and will benefit greatly from the experienced mentorship of Dr Heath-Kelly.

当代英国政治话语中充斥着“我们”赢得了第二次世界大战的宣言。这些越来越多地是由事件发生时尚未出生且没有第一手军事经验的人们制造的。相反，此类主张经常援引家谱和替代联系。尽管其中一些近年来已成为公众辩论的话题，但它们很少受到国际关系（IR）学者的关注。我的研究通过探索通过祖先/国家军事功绩替代生活的功能、利害关系和政治来发展战争纪念学术。通过探索英国皇家军团的倡议以及围绕其红色罂粟徽章的辩论，我探讨了个人、团体和商业实体如何强调“我们的”与过去战争的家谱联系，以缓解存在的焦虑并建立对真正国家的主张归属感。拟议的活动旨在最大限度地发挥我的博士研究的学术和公众影响，并为英国学术界的研究生涯提供一个跳板。首先，奖学金将使我能够准备书籍手稿并通过同行评审的学术期刊传播论文。它将让我能够撰写涉及国际关系以外学科的论文，包括记忆研究，到目前为止，记忆研究是从文化遗产的角度而不是政治的角度来探讨替代动态的。其次，它将使我能够进行有限的额外研究，从而扩大我的项目的视野。这项额外的研究将构成一篇文章的基础，该文章将使我能够将我的工作应用于战争纪念之外，以考虑人们如何通过当代军事暴力来替代生活。在奖学金期间，我将参加三个学术会议。在英国国际研究协会 (BISA) 会议上发表一篇基于新研究的论文将使我能够在提交发表之前吸收反馈。为了培养一个有利于 IR 之外的未来研究合作的跨学科网络，我将在记忆研究协会会议上发表一篇基于我的论文的论文。我还将培养我的学术领导技能，并通过为 BISA 和欧洲国际研究协会会议提出小组建议，将多个学科的学者聚集在一起，分别讨论英国（战争）纪念和全球政治中的罂粟花，为该专业的合作做出贡献。奖学金还将使我能够在学术界之外分享我的研究成果。我将为《对话》和《卫报》撰写有关我的研究的文章，两者都针对普通读者。十一月，我将举办三场有关纪念的活动。第一个活动将汇集学术界和非政府组织利益相关者，举办为期一天的研讨会，讨论战争纪念及其对更广泛的纪念文化的影响 - 包括纪念 COVID-19 大流行。其次，关于这一主题的“提问时间”式辩论将吸引更广泛的沃里克和公众观众。第三，我将邀请当地两所学校的班级参加为期一天的教育外展活动，以了解纪念政治，从而发展我的外展经验。最后，该奖学金将用于过渡到我职业生涯的下一阶段。我将制定一个新颖的项目提案，扩大我的博士研究重点，探索替代军国主义对战备的影响。它将考虑替代动力如何支持和破坏英国的征兵工作，从而重新思考现有的学术观点，认为军事化和战备必然是相辅相成的。基于该提案的资助申请将提交给 Leverhulme Trust 和 ESRC，并将受益于 Heath-Kelly 博士经验丰富的指导。