H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2024

RACELAND · Race Land: The Ecology of Segregation

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-02-01 → 2024-10-02
Финансиране от ЕС: 253 052 €
Участници: 2
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Расовата сегрегация в Юга на САЩ се изследва чрез връзката ѝ с експлоатацията на природни ресурси, като например добива на петрол. Това помага да се разбере как расовите системи влияят на околната среда и хората в глобален мащаб.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

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Race Land: The Ecology of Segregation

RACELAND examines how exploitation and entanglement upheld the racially segregated "Jim Crow" society of the US South. Southern segregationists not only exploited (and destroyed) human beings, but also the environment — human and natural resources were systematically mined to uphold the ecosystem of Jim Crow apartheid. This resource extraction happened through geopolitics and the entanglement with industries and commercial activities that were not always explicitly racial in nature, for instance the implementation of the Marshall Plan in Europe, oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean sugar trade, the development and application of pesticides and herbicides, and the digging of canals. The overall objective of RACELAND is to understand how racialized social systems work, how they affect the environment, humans, and other-than-humans on the local and global level, and how they manage to stay alive. RACELAND fits in a burgeoning field of scholarship on reactionary internationalism and seeks to historicize this phenomenon. At the same time, it challenges the oft-implied link between progress and modernity, unveiling modernity’s “dark side” instead. In contrast with the traditional view that the white US South was fighting a forlorn rearguard battle to maintain its segregationist Jim Crow system after World War II, I argue that southern segregationists were fully immersed in Cold War modernity and actively sought to secure and advance their white-supremacist way of life through interregional and transnational alliances, making their impact global in nature. Once civil rights activists began to contest internal colonization at home and independence fighters challenged white domination in the colonies, southern segregationists began to actively seek white allies to maintain preexisting racialized power structures and narratives in a decolonizing world. What RACELAND does, then, is to take the study of US segregation out of its national boundaries, track the networks its proponents were part of, and explore its economic and environmental impact. We continue to live with this impact until today.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

RACELAND investigates how white-supremacist social systems affect people and the environment on a worldwide scale. Taking an innovative interdisciplinary approach, its aim is to examine how race and class discrimination globally interlocks with economic development, ecological issues, medical research, and the advancement of science more generally. The focus of this project is on a modern and quintessential white-supremacist society: the segregationist South of the U.S. during the Cold War era. Often considered a regional backwater that was out of step with modernity, I apply a radically different perspective that places the South at the center of U.S. policymaking and racialized innovation in the post-World War II period. RACELAND emphasizes the ingenious strategies southern segregationists employed to keep their racist worldview intact and export its main tenets across the globe, with profound consequences for ecosystems around the world and for the populations inhabiting them. The legacy of such strategies continues until today. The project addresses pressing current questions regarding social and environmental justice, which cannot be answered unless we know more about their historical context, about when and why these problems arose in the first place. Considering the recent rise of reactionary populism and the alt-right movement, my proposal is incredibly timely, because it exposes the complex and entangled roots of this right-wing upswing. The training objectives of the Fellowship are aimed at research, management, and public outreach. The Fellowship will enable me to learn advanced intellectual and management skills as part of an outstanding interdisciplinary team of scholars at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Moreover, it will enhance my abilities to raise public awareness through cooperation with expert journalists, online platforms that publish about themes connected to my research, and institutes engaged in community outreach.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · GroningenКоординаторНидерландия
THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI · University MsСъединени щати