'Every Damn one of 'em's got a Little Piece of Land in his Head': Masculinity and Ecological Crisis in the Dust Bowl

“每个该死的人脑子里都有一小块土地”：沙尘暴中的男子气概和生态危机

• 批准号: 2743069
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2743069
• 关键词: Every; Damn; em; got; Little

The environmental and human devastation - rapid aridification, crop failure, and consequent massmigration - wrought by the American Dust Bowl in the 1930s closely parallels predictions made by climatescientists for our collective future. Yet, despite presaging the effects of global climate change, the DustBowl remains a parochial subject for historians. More specifically, the feature shared between past andpresent environmental disasters which has been most been neglected historiographically is the role ofmasculinity. Whilst sociologists and activists have long noted the reciprocal connection betweenenvironmental crises and masculinity, this knowledge has not been applied historically, no more so than inthe case of the Dust Bowl.1 Through rectifying this disparity, this project will further our understanding ofthe Dust Bowl and environmental crises at large whilst also using it as a case study to reframe the historyof inter-war American masculinity. How, this project asks, did ideas of masculinity intersect withenvironmental crisis in the Dust Bowl? How had men's ideological relationship to the land been historicallyformed? How were male casualties of the Dust Bowl represented at the time? What did it feel like to be aman in the Dust Bowl and why?

20 世纪 30 年代美国沙尘暴造成的环境和人类破坏——迅速干旱、农作物歉收以及随之而来的大规模移民——与气候科学家对我们共同未来的预测非常相似。然而，尽管预示着全球气候变化的影响，尘暴对历史学家来说仍然是一个狭隘的话题。更具体地说，历史上最容易被忽视的过去和现在环境灾难的共同特征是男性气质的作用。虽然社会学家和活动家长期以来一直注意到环境危机与男性气质之间的相互联系，但这种知识在历史上并未得到应用，就像沙尘暴的情况一样。1通过纠正这种差异，该项目将进一步加深我们对沙尘暴和男性气概的理解。整个环境危机，同时也将其作为案例研究来重新构建两次世界大战期间美国男性气质的历史。该项目提出的问题是，男子气概的观念如何与沙尘暴中的环境危机相交叉？人类与土地的意识形态关系在历史上是如何形成的？当时沙尘暴的男性伤亡情况如何？在沙尘暴中作为一个人感觉如何？为什么？