Description du projet
Un examen plus approfondi des systèmes sociaux suprémacistes blancs
Comment les discriminations raciales et de classe impactent‑elles le développement économique, les questions écologiques, la recherche médicale et les avancées globales en sciences? Le projet RACELAND, financé par l’UE, répondra à cette question. Il étudiera le sud ségrégationniste des États-Unis à l’époque de la guerre froide, qui se trouvait au cœur de l’élaboration des politiques suprémacistes blanches. Le projet recherchera spécifiquement les stratégies utilisées par les ségrégationnistes du sud pour conserver leur vision du monde raciste intacte et exporter leurs principes fondamentaux à travers le monde. Pour répondre aux questions sur la justice sociale et environnementale, la recherche visera à mieux comprendre quand et pourquoi ces problèmes sont apparus. Au vu de la récente montée du populisme réactionnaire et du mouvement d’alt-right en Europe, ce projet fera la lumière sur les racines complexes de cette montée de la droite.
Objectif
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)Coordinateur
9712CP Groningen
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