Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Contentious Belonging: Video Production and Indigenous Participation within the Bolivian State

博士论文改进补助金：有争议的归属：玻利维亚国内的视频制作和土著参与

• 批准号: 0548790
• 负责人: Marc Edelman
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-03-15 至 2007-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0548790&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Contentious

In this project, the researcher will analyze the production and circulation of indigenous videos in Bolivia to understand how indigenous people organize politically and develop their expectations of the Bolivian state. In the highly contested arena of Bolivian politics, videos produced by native people bring attention to what they see as relevant, necessary, possible, imaginable, or desirable. This research builds on recent anthropology about the limitations of resistance in the context of class, gender and race, by looking at the state through local political and cultural practices. In twelve months of ethnographic work, the researcher will analyze how indigenous visual media contribute to imagining different relationships to the Bolivian state. The research will include examining the history of indigenous video production in Bolivia and its relationship to the history of indigenous movements; participant observation of video production and circulation; interviews with producers, trainers and audiences; and visual analyses of videos. One important focus of this work will be on political language in both documentary and fictional videos, noting how indigenous media makers situate themselves in relation to national culture and the state. This research adds to academic and political efforts to understand the historical conditions of underrepresented groups and to strengthen their visibility. In addition to the normal scholarly outlets, the researcher plans two main forms of broadly disseminating the results: (1) a workshop with indigenous communicators; and (2) an interactive cd-rom with extracts of the research process and results for public dissemination in both Spanish and English.

在这个项目中，研究人员将分析玻利维亚土著视频的制作和传播，以了解土著人民如何进行政治组织并发展他们对玻利维亚国家的期望。 在玻利维亚政治竞争激烈的舞台上，当地人制作的视频让人们关注他们认为相关、必要、可能、可想象或可取的事物。这项研究建立在最近关于阶级、性别和种族背景下抵抗的局限性的人类学基础上，通过当地的政治和文化实践来观察国家。 在十二个月的民族志工作中，研究人员将分析本土视觉媒体如何有助于想象与玻利维亚国家的不同关系。该研究将包括研究玻利维亚土著视频制作的历史及其与土著运动历史的关系；参与观察视频制作和传播；对制作人、培训师和观众的采访；以及视频的视觉分析。 这项工作的一个重要焦点将是纪录片和虚构视频中的政治语言，指出本土媒体制作者如何将自己定位于民族文化和国家的关系中。 这项研究增加了学术和政治方面的努力，以了解代表性不足群体的历史状况并提高他们的知名度。除了正常的学术渠道外，研究人员还计划通过两种主要形式广泛传播研究成果：（1）与本土传播者举办研讨会； (2) 一张交互式光盘，其中包含研究过程和结果的摘录，以西班牙语和英语向公众传播。