Doctoral Dissertation Research: Recycling and waste management in Chinese cities

博士论文研究：中国城市的回收和废物管理

• 批准号: 1225886
• 负责人: Michael Dove
• 金额: $ 0.24万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2014-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1225886&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Recycling; waste; Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Recycling; waste

Yale University doctoral candidate Amy Zhang, under the guidance of Dr. Michael R. Dove, will undertake research on the transformation of social and physical contemporary urban landscapes through the lens of waste management. Waste management has become a focus of official efforts to construct modern cities, a prominent means of livelihood for rural migrants, and a frequent rallying point for urban environmental activists. Building on the emerging literature in anthropology on the material dimensions of social life and urban infrastructure, this study aims to examine the meanings and values that inform different ways of discarding and reclaiming objectsThrough eighteen months of ethnographic research with waste experts, activists and informal collectors in Guangzhou and Beijing, China, the researcher will identify the social practices, technologies and infrastructures of waste management, and the accompanying aspirations and values that are reconfiguring China's urban environment. She also seeks to understand the public reception of science and technology in China; various ways of knowing waste, risk, and pollution; and the relationship between state efforts to build modern cities and the lived experiences of inhabitants. The researcher will use a variety of social science research methods including semi-structured interviews, oral histories, participant observation (of waste management schemes), ethnographic life-cycle analysis (of waste objects), photographic documentation, and photovoice. Public policy debates on waste management in China foreground the need for technological solutions. This project broadens the debate over municipal waste management to include recognition of the public reception of science and technology and informal systems of recycling. These dimensions are important to both policy makers and urban and regional planners who seek to design livable cities in China and the global south. Finally, this project adds an ethnographic perspective, focused on the significance of human aspirations and the unforeseen outcomes of social practice, to a growing interdisciplinary field aimed at enhancing understandings of the human dimensions of urban environmental change. Supporting this research also supports the education of a graduate student.

耶鲁大学博士候选人艾米·张（Amy Zhang）在迈克尔·R·多夫（Michael R.废物管理已成为建造现代城市的官方努力的重点，农村移民的重要手段，以及城市环境活动家的常见集会点。本研究旨在基于人类学的新兴文献对社会生活和城市基础设施的物质维度，旨在检查含义和价值观的意义和价值观，这些含义和价值观为各种方式丢弃和回收了十八个月的人种学研究的对象，与废物专家，激进主义者，活动家和非正式收藏家进行了社会和北京，社会和北京的习惯，技术和北京的习惯，技术和北非。伴随着重新配置中国城市环境的愿望和价值观。她还试图了解中国科学技术的公众接受；了解浪费，风险和污染的各种方式；以及国家为建立现代城市的努力与居民的生活经历之间的关系。研究人员将使用各种社会科学研究方法，包括半结构化访谈，口述历史，参与者观察（废物管理方案），人种学生命周期分析（废物对象），摄影文档和光伏。 中国废物管理的公共政策辩论预示着对技术解决方案的需求。该项目扩大了关于市政废物管理的辩论，包括认可对科学和技术的公共接收以及非正式的回收系统。这些维度对于试图在中国和全球南部设计可宜居城市的城市和区域规划者都很重要。最后，该项目增加了人种学的观点，重点是人类愿望的重要性和社会实践的不可预见的结果，旨在增强对人类对城市环境变化的维度的理解的日益增长的跨学科领域。支持这项研究还支持研究生的教育。