Doctoral Dissertation Research: Factors Influencing the Property Claims and the Reorganization of Urban Space

博士论文研究：产权主张影响因素与城市空间重组

• 批准号: 1728635
• 负责人: Thomas Hansen
• 金额: $ 2.59万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1728635&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Factors; Influencing

What role do religious and ethnic community play in shaping social life in modern urban environments? This research project, which trains a student in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, asks in what ways these identities are reshaped by the changing nature of cities themselves. Since the late nineteenth century, many researchers have assumed that urban environments are the antithesis of traditional life, dense worlds of money, markets, and diversity where individuals are atomized and rebuilt into crowds and class-based political movements. Left aside in these accounts is the continued role of urban religious infrastructures in shaping city life. With the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs projecting that urban environments will be home to over two-thirds of the global population by 2050, there is an urgent need for social scientists to reconsider how religious and ethnic forms of community are woven into urban environments, and what role they play in shaping where and how people live, socialize, and experience the city.Byron Gray, under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Hansen of Stanford University, will explore what role community identities have in structuring property markets, intra-urban migration, and perceptions of urban space. This research project focuses on the 500-year-old Catholic community of Mumbai, India as a window into these dynamics. Predating the city's development from a Portuguese settlement into India's premier global city, the Mumbai Catholic community presents an ideal case study for examining the nexus between religion and the transformation of urban environments. Indeed, over the past 30 years, many members of this 600,000-strong population have abandoned their traditional neighborhoods in the south of the city for its expanding northern wards, a process that has reshaped Catholics' longstanding relationship with the city and one another. Using a combination of interviews, participant observation, archival work, and demographic mapping, this project will map out the legal and social means through which communities assert control over properties and neighborhoods in Mumbai, and the ritual and social practices through which such neighborhoods are made into meaningful community spaces. In addition to testing the hypothesis that religious and ethnic forms of community often act as key forces shaping property markets and the lived experience of urban residents, the project also aims to understand how community identities are themselves transformed when unsettled from existing spatial arrangements. The findings of this study will not only improve understandings of the social and political dynamics of the world's largest democracy, but also more broadly to urban planners and policymakers interested in the complicated nexus between community and changing urban environments.

宗教和民族社区在塑造现代城市环境中的社会生活中发挥什么作用？该研究项目培训学生实证、科学数据收集和分析的方法，询问城市本身性质的变化如何重塑这些身份。自十九世纪末以来，许多研究人员认为城市环境是传统生活的对立面，是一个充满金钱、市场和多样性的密集世界，个体被原子化并重建为群体和基于阶级的政治运动。这些叙述中忽略了城市宗教基础设施在塑造城市生活方面的持续作用。联合国经济和社会事务部预测，到 2050 年，全球三分之二以上的人口将居住在城市环境中，社会科学家迫切需要重新考虑宗教和种族形式的社区如何融入城市环境以及他们在塑造人们生活、社交和体验城市的地点和方式方面发挥什么作用。拜伦·格雷在斯坦福大学托马斯·汉森博士的指导下，将探讨社区身份在构建房地产市场、内部社区和房地产市场方面的作用。城市的移民和对城市空间的看法。该研究项目重点关注印度孟买拥有 500 年历史的天主教社区，作为了解这些动态的窗口。在这座城市从葡萄牙定居点发展成为印度首屈一指的全球城市之前，孟买天主教社区为研究宗教与城市环境转变之间的关系提供了一个理想的案例研究。事实上，在过去的 30 年里，这 60 万人口中的许多成员已经放弃了城市南部的传统社区，前往不断扩大的北部选区，这一过程重塑了天主教徒与城市以及彼此之间的长期关系。该项目将结合访谈、参与观察、档案工作和人口分布图，绘制出社区对孟买财产和社区进行控制的法律和社会手段，以及形成此类社区的仪式和社会实践。进入有意义的社区空间。除了检验社区的宗教和种族形式往往是塑造房地产市场和城市居民生活体验的关键力量这一假设之外，该项目还旨在了解当社区身份因现有空间安排而不稳定时，社区身份本身是如何转变的。这项研究的结果不仅将增进对世界上最大民主国家的社会和政治动态的理解，而且更广泛地有助于对社区与不断变化的城市环境之间的复杂关系感兴趣的城市规划者和政策制定者。