Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Mutual Impacts of Cross-Cultural Contacts

博士论文改进补助金：跨文化接触的相互影响

• 批准号: 0751987
• 负责人: George Marcus
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-06-01 至 2010-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0751987&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Mutual

Graduate student Andrea Ballestero, supervised by Dr. George E. Marcus, will undertake research on change in how water is perceived and managed as a commodity in Latin America. The distinction between water as a basic right and water as a commodity has been symbolic of the separation and political configuration of the public domain and the private domain, and of different ethical investments in nature and rights. This distinction is being blurred in Latin American water politics through the standardization of expert knowledge. Ballestero will investigate changing notions of best practices and expert knowledge in the management of water in Latin America where, in waves of economic reform, local governments have increasingly reduced the size of public water utilities and adopted scientific tools for water planning. The research is to be conducted in Ceará, Brazil, and San Jose, Costa Rica.The researcher will employ a range of ethnographic data collection strategies including participant observation, in-depth interviewing, archival research, and surveys. Her focus will be on comparing how water experts produce a single set of techno-legal policy guidelines while making use of conflicting information from local and international frames of reference. The main objectives of this project are to investigate a) how water experts produce, mobilize, and negotiate water policy expertise, b) whether or not these negotiations change how water rights are understood, and c) how specific local environmental conditions of scarcity and quality influence expert policy tool choices. The research is important because it will contribute to social science theory about the relationships between international science and local environmental management, bringing social science to bear on issues of great contemporary importance. The research also will contribute significantly to the education of a social scientist.

在乔治·E·马库斯（George E.水作为基本权利和水作为商品之间的区别象征着公共领域和私人领域的分离和政治构造，以及对自然和权利的不同道德投资。通过标准化专家知识的标准化，拉丁美洲政治政治中的这种区别正在模糊。 Ballestero将调查不断变化的关于拉丁美洲水管理的最佳实践和专业知识的注释，在经济改革浪潮中，地方政府增加了公共水电图的规模，并采用了科学工具来进行水计划。这项研究将在哥斯达黎加的Ceará，巴西和圣何塞进行。研究人员将采用一系列民族志数据收集策略，包括参与观察，深入访谈，档案研究和调查。她的重点是比较水专家如何制作一套技术 - 法律政策指南，同时利用来自本地和国际参考框架的冲突信息。该项目的主要目的是调查a）水专家如何生产，动员和谈判水政策专业知识，b）这些谈判是否改变了水权的理解，c）c）c）特定的当地环境条件如何影响专家政策工具选择。这项研究很重要，因为它将为社会科学理论做出有关国际科学与地方环境管理之间关系的贡献，从而使社会科学在当代重要性的问题上承受了巨大的问题。这项研究还将为社会科学家的教育做出重大贡献。