Doctoral Dissertation Research: Practices and Policies of Peri-urban Land Conversion

博士论文研究：城郊土地流转的实践与政策

• 批准号: 1729241
• 负责人: Erik Harms
• 金额: $ 1.51万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1729241&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Practices; Policies

The research funded by this award examines peri-urban land and social transformations. The goal is to address broader questions about the current and future trajectories of agrarian societies in a world increasingly characterized by agricultural land dispossession, the conversion of rural lands to urban uses, and rural to urban migration. One outcome of these processes has been an increasing number of mega-cities, with populations in excess of 10 million residents, in places that formerly had longstanding agricultural economies. As cities grow, farmers lose land and livelihoods, and peri-urban city outskirts become informal settlements of concentrated poverty and underdevelopment. The research will address the following overarching questions: How do agrarian households that have lost agricultural land engage with the immense material and social changes to their lives? And how do their responses to land dispossession and land-use change, which can range from local-level coping to public protests and political engagement, figure into the process and strategy of urban development? Comprehensive inquiry on the micro- and macro-level implications of city expansion for those living on the urban margins is important because it will elucidate contempoary global developments in urbanization, land grabbing, and rural political movements. This knowledge will aid in future planning for politically, socially, and environmentally sustainable mega-cities.The research will be carried out in peri-urban Hanoi, Vietnam, by Yale University anthropology doctoral student, Emily Nguyen, under the supervision of Dr. Erik Harms. Hanoi is an appropriate research site because recent Vietnamese economic reform policies and urban master plan strategies have driven large-scale conversions of agricultural land into industrial and high-end residential zones. The recentness and intensity of these developments will highlight, and thereby make more amenable to study, the relationships to be examined. Findings can then be extended to other sites around the world, including in the United States. The researcher will collect empirical data through a mixed-methods approach, which will include: semi-structured interviews stratified by gender and generation, the elicitation of oral histories, participant observation, archival document analysis, and land-use mapping. Results from the study will produce a theoretical and methodological platform for understanding how formal planning, informal practices of using space, and diversity in population response come together to transform agrarian landscapes. Findings also will be useful to policy makers undertaking capital-driven urban planning in a context with socialist agrarian histories.

该奖项资助的研究研究了城市周边的土地和社会转型。目的是在一个越来越多地以农业土地剥夺，农村土地转换为城市用途以及农村向城市移民的世界中，解决有关农业社会当前和未来轨迹的更广泛问题。这些过程的一个结果是，大型城市的数量越来越多，人口超过1000万居民，而在以前拥有长期存在农业经济体的地方。随着城市的发展，农民失去了土地和生计，城市城市郊区成为非正式的集中贫困和欠发达的定居点。 这项研究将解决以下总体问题：失去农业土地的农业家庭如何与他们生活的巨大材料和社会变化相关？他们对土地剥夺和土地利用变化的反应如何，从地方级别的应对到公众抗议和政治参与，都可以参与城市发展的过程和战略？关于城市扩张对生活在城市边缘上的人们的微观和宏观水平的综合询问很重要，因为它将阐明当代全球在城市化，抢夺土地和农村政治运动方面的全球发展。这些知识将有助于对政治，社会和环境可持续的大型城市进行未来的计划。该研究将在耶鲁大学人类学博士学位学生Emily Nguyen在Erik Harms博士的监督下，在越南城市河内河内进行。河内是一个合适的研究站点，因为最近的越南经济改革政策和城市总体规划策略已将农业用地的大规模转换为工业和高端住宅区。这些发展的最新性和强度将突出显示，从而使需要研究的关系更加适合研究。然后，发现可以扩展到包括美国在内的世界各地的其他地点。研究人员将通过混合方法方法收集经验数据，其中包括：由性别和产生分层的半结构化访谈，启发口述历史，参与者观察，档案文件分析和土地使用映射。该研究的结果将产生一个理论和方法论平台，以了解正式的计划，使用空间的非正式实践以及人口反应的多样性如何共同改变农业景观。 调查结果对在社会主义农业历史的背景下进行以资本驱动的城市规划进行政策制定者也将很有用。