Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Effects of Changing Documentation Practices

博士论文研究：改变文档实践的影响

• 批准号: 1823702
• 负责人: Julie Chu
• 金额: $ 1.96万
• 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: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-01 至 2020-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1823702&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Effects; Changing

The research supported by this award investigates how changing documentation practices shape people's ideas about state governance, legal authority, and citizenship. Ordinary documents, such as driver's licenses and ID cards, can be critically important in the lives of modern citizens. However, governments everywhere regularly undertake reforms that create new documents and alter or eliminate old ones. Previous research has assessed the functionality of reforms, but less attention has been paid to how the very repetitiveness of reforms affects the state-citizen relationship. Filling this gap is important because changes made with the goal of improving technologies or streamlining bureaucracies may have unintended, negative consequences that could be avoided if they were better understood before the changes were made.The research will be conducted by University of Chicago anthropology doctoral student, Do Dom Kim, with the oversight of Dr. Julie Y. Chu. The researchers have sited the project in Shenzhen, China, where documentation reforms have been occurring frequently and urban redevelopment and impending mass relocation have made the stakes of documentation practices high. This heightened importance of documentation will make the object of analysis easier to isolate for research purposes than in might be in a less documentation-rich and documentation-centric environment. The researchers will collect data on how people facing critical life decisions such as eviction, employment, marriage, and family planning, mobilize documentation in this quickly changing political, legal, and technological environment. They will employ a combination of ethnographic methodologies including interviews, discourse analysis of policy documents, and archival research. Findings from the research will contribute to scholarship on the state-citizen relationship, internal displacement, and socialist law. In addition, findings will be shared policymakers concerned to understand how people adapt to documentation reforms as well as the long-term sociocultural consequences of constant policy changes, particularly in the context of migration and urban redevelopment.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持的研究调查了改变文档实践如何塑造人们对州治理，法律权威和公民身份的观念。普通文件，例如驾驶执照和身份证，在现代公民的生活中至关重要。但是，各地的政府定期进行改革，以创建新文件并改变或消除旧文件。 先前的研究评估了改革的功能，但是对改革的重复性如何影响国家公民关系的重复性减少了。填补这一差距很重要，因为以改进技术或简化官僚主义的目标进行的更改可能会产生意外的，负面的后果，如果在更改进行更改之前更好地理解，这项研究将由芝加哥人类学的人类学博士学位专业的学生进行，DO dom dom kim dom Kim，以及Julie Y. Chu博士的监督。研究人员已将该项目置于中国深圳，在那里经常进行文件改革，城市的重建和即将进行的大规模搬迁使文档实践的赌注很高。文档的重要性将使分析对象更容易出于研究目的，而不是在较少文档和以文档为中心的环境中。 研究人员将收集有关如何在这种迅速不断变化的政治，法律和技术环境中动员文档的诸如驱逐，就业，婚姻和计划生育等关键生活决策的数据。他们将采用民族志方法的结合，包括访谈，政策文件的话语分析和档案研究。 研究结果将有助于国家公民关系，内部流离失所和社会主义法律的奖学金。此外，研究结果将是共同的政策制定者，以了解人们如何适应持续政策变化的文档改革以及长期的社会文化后果，尤其是在移民和城市重建的背景下。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过基金会的知识优点和广泛的效果来评估，通过评估值得进行评估，并通过评估值得进行评估。