A Political Ecology of Value: A Cohort-Based Ethnography of Urban Social Policy

价值的政治生态学：城市社会政策的基于群体的民族志

• 批准号: 1559001
• 负责人: Joshua Fisher
• 金额: $ 22.65万
• 依托单位: High Point University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1559001&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Political; Ecology; Value; Cohort; Based

Research in the social sciences has shown that effective urban policy must strike a delicate balance between social, economic, and environmental considerations. In a world where over half of the world's population now lives in cities, finding this balance is crucial because poor urban planning and management may have costly consequences in economic growth, public health, general well-being, and environmental quality. In recent years, a number of American cities have exhibited the effects of infrastructural failures: flagging economic investment, social unrest, and disease outbreaks. But while the effects are clear, the solutions are not. In the research supported by this award, anthropologists Dr. Joshua B. Fisher (High Point University) and Dr. Alex Nading (University of Edinburgh) will address the problem through innovative research in an urban context whose history of experimentation with policy alternatives and relatively small size, will be particularly revealing of what works, what does not, for whom, and why. The researchers will travel to Ciudad Sandino, a section of peri-urban Managua, Nicaragua. Recently, in response to increased income inequality, urban environmental degradation, and declining revenues from tourism and foreign investment, the city has undertaken a new, cross-sector, integrated urban development campaign, "Live Clean, Live Healthy, Live Beautiful, Live Well." The researchers will examine the complex impacts of this program upon matters of waste management, environmental education, food safety, and public health. They will collect data with a suite of ethnographic research methods including ethnographic interviews, participant observation, photo documentation, and archival analysis. In addition to these more traditional research methods, the researchers will also collect data interactively and dynamically by creating and following a longitudinal ethnographic cohort. Through a series of workshops over three years, a diverse array of citizens including policy-makers, teachers, and informal economy food producers and garbage pickers will be asked to provide feedback to each other and to the researchers on how the programs are affecting them and their worlds. Findings from this research will provide insight into the factors that shape the development of effective urban social policy and successful cities, given their many entangled social, economic, and environmental dimensions.

社会科学的研究表明，有效的城市政策必须在社会，经济和环境考虑之间取得微妙的平衡。在一个世界以上人口的一半现在生活在城市中的世界中，找到这种平衡至关重要，因为不良的城市规划和管理可能会对经济增长，公共卫生，一般福祉和环境质量产生昂贵的后果。近年来，许多美国城市表现出基础设施失败的影响：标记经济投资，社会动荡和疾病爆发。但是，尽管效果很明显，但解决方案却不是。在该奖项支持的研究中，人类学家Joshua B. Fisher博士（高点大学）和Alex Nading博士（爱丁堡大学）将通过在城市环境中的创新研究来解决该问题，其对政策替代方案的实验历史和相对较小的规模的历史将特别揭示出什么作用，对谁有效，对谁有效，以及为什么，以及为什么。研究人员将前往尼加拉瓜郊区马那瓜的一部分Ciudad Sandino。 最近，为了应对增加的收入不平等，城市环境退化以及旅游和外国投资的收入下降，该市开展了一项新的跨部门，整合的城市发展运动，“现场清洁，健康，健康，生活美丽，生活，生活良好”。研究人员将研究该计划在废物管理，环境教育，食品安全和公共卫生方面的复杂影响。他们将采用一系列人种学研究方法收集数据，包括人种学访谈，参与者观察，照片文档和档案分析。除了这些更传统的研究方法外，研究人员还将通过创建和遵循纵向民族志队员进行交互和动态地收集数据。通过一系列三年的研讨会，将要求各种各样的公民，包括决策者，教师以及非正式的经济食品生产商和垃圾采摘者，以互相反馈，并向研究人员提供有关计划如何影响他们及其世界的反馈。这项研究的结果将洞悉塑造有效城市社会政策和成功城市的发展的因素，鉴于其许多纠缠的社会，经济和环境方面。