Descripción del proyecto
Un estudio más detallado de los sistemas sociales supremacistas
¿Cómo afecta la discriminación racial y de clase al desarrollo económico, a las cuestiones ecológicas, a la investigación médica y al avance general de la ciencia? El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos RACELAND responderá a esta pregunta. Estudiará el sur segregacionista de los Estados Unidos durante la época de la Guerra Fría, que fue el centro de la formulación de políticas del supremacismo blanco. En concreto, el proyecto investigará las estrategias utilizadas por los segregacionistas sureños para mantener intacta su visión racista del mundo y exportar sus principios fundamentales a todo el mundo. Para abordar las cuestiones relativas a la justicia social y ambiental, la investigación tratará de aprender más sobre cuándo y por qué surgieron estos problemas. En vista del reciente auge del populismo reaccionario y del movimiento de extrema derecha en Europa, este proyecto aportará información sobre las complejas raíces de este auge de la derecha.
Objetivo
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.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
9712CP Groningen
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