Doctoral Dissertation Research: Everyday Relationships, Political Frontiers, and Industrial Market Zones

博士论文研究：日常关系、政治前沿和产业市场区域

• 批准号: 1458011
• 负责人: William Mazzarella
• 金额: $ 0.9万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-02-01 至 2016-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1458011&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Everyday; Relationships

Concentrated industrial and commercial zones on international borders are frequently promoted by their developers as both engines of economic development and catalysts for improved political relationships. Social scientists have been more skeptical, pointing out that when the countries involved have unequal power, special economic zones may perpetuate instability through increased economic and political inequality. However, there is little research on the on-the-ground processes through which either positive or negative outcomes are realized. University of Chicago doctoral student Jeremy Siegman, who is supervised by Dr. William Mazzarella, will undertake research in a commercial contact zone in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to address this knowledge gap. This is an ideal site because the idea that developing economic ties between Israelis and Palestinians might lead to peaceful coexistence between them and throughout the region has been a mainstay of foreign investment in the region. This will be the first detailed study of Israeli-Palestinian commercial contact in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.The researcher will undertake a 12-month ethnographic study of Israeli-Palestinian contact as it takes place in daily practice. He will focus on Israeli-controlled commercial and industrial zones where many Palestinians work and sometimes shop. Research methods will include participant observation of market practices, supplemented with content analyses of media and activist materials; extensive interviews with Israelis and Palestinian workers, shoppers, security agencies and activists; and interviews with local economic analysts. These data will allow him to assess how, through everyday work and shopping practices, Israelis and Palestinians frame their relations to each other and how such framings may also be disrupted or undermined by such ordinary events as workplace disputes, gendered tensions, political or religious debates, and security activities. Only detailed participant-observation and interviews, conducted in both Arabic and Hebrew, can shed light on these complex spaces where two separated social worlds come together. Building on previous experience in the area and his linguistic fluency, Stiegman's research will shed new light on the puzzle of Israeli-Palestinian commercial contact.

其开发商经常被促进国际边界上的工业和商业区域，因为经济发展的引擎和催化剂都可以改善政治关系。社会科学家更加持怀疑态度，指出，当所涉及的国家拥有不平等的权力时，经济特区可能会通过增加的经济和政治不平等来使不稳定。但是，几乎没有关于实现正面或负面结果的地面过程的研究。受威廉·马扎雷拉（William Mazzarella）博士监督的芝加哥大学博士生杰里米·西格曼（Jeremy Siegman）将在以色列占领的西岸的商业联络区进行研究，以解决这一知识差距。这是一个理想的地点，因为以色列人和巴勒斯坦人之间建立经济关系可能导致他们与整个地区的和平共处的想法一直是该地区外国投资的中流。这将是对以色列占领的西岸以色列 - 帕勒斯坦商业接触的首次详细研究。研究人员将在日常实践中进行以色列 - 帕勒斯坦接触的12个月民族志研究。他将专注于以色列控制的商业和工业区，许多巴勒斯坦人在这里工作，有时甚至购物。研究方法将包括对市场实践的参与者观察，并补充了媒体和激进材料的内容分析；对以色列人和巴勒斯坦工人，购物者，安全机构和活动家的广泛采访；以及对当地经济分析师的访谈。这些数据将使他能够通过日常工作和购物惯例评估以色列和巴勒斯坦人如何彼此之间的关系以及如何被诸如工作场所纠纷，性别紧张，政治或宗教辩论和安全活动等普通事件的普通事件中断或破坏。只有在阿拉伯语和希伯来语进行的详细参与者观察和访谈才能阐明这些复杂的空间，在这些空间中，两个分开的社交世界都融合在一起。 Stiegman的研究基于该地区的先前经验以及他的语言流利性，将为以色列 - 帕勒斯坦商业接触的难题提供新的启示。