Doctoral Dissertation Research: Infrastructures, Social Transformations and Resource Extraction in Contested Contexts

博士论文研究：有争议的背景下的基础设施、社会转型和资源开采

• 批准号: 2015957
• 负责人: Jason Cons
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2015957&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Infrastructures; Social

This research investigates how social change occurs in communities economically dependent on the extraction of natural resources. Social scientists have found that areas with large deposits of natural resources are prone to conflict. Yet, as episodes of conflict garner news attention, less is known about the everyday ways that community members navigate the resource extraction infrastructures (security walls, shipping ports, conveyor belts) with which they live. This project investigates how communities make infrastructure a platform for demanding economic benefits, legal rights, and/or territorial control. It examines if and how these efforts, in turn, effect communities’ economic and social wellbeing. Through a focus on extractive infrastructures, this project improves understandings of resources and societal change. In addition to providing training for a graduate student training in methods of scientific data collection and analysis, the findings will be valuable to policy researchers and policy makers interested in conflict resolution and natural resource extraction.Research will be conducted in a community facing questions of who controls local natural resources in an effort to qualitatively understand how community members navigate infrastructures. Methods will include participant observation and rigorous documentation of (1) community life, daily work, and activities among these communities and (2) of the corporations carrying out the extraction. The doctoral student will augment these qualitative techniques with extensive formal and informal interviews, oral histories, media analysis, and archival research. By investigating how extractive infrastructure effects community members and how communities, in turn, engage those same infrastructures when demanding socio-economic change, this research generates critical knowledge of social change and conflict in resource rich regions.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.

这项研究调查了社会如何在经济上取决于自然资源的提取的社区。社会科学家发现，拥有大量自然资源的地区容易发生冲突。然而，随着冲突的情节引起了新闻的关注，对社区成员驾驶资源提取基础设施（安全墙，运输港口，传送带）的每一天的了解鲜为人知。该项目调查了社区如何使基础设施成为要求经济利益，合法权利和/或领土控制的平台。它研究了这些努力是否以及如何影响社区的经济和社会福祉。通过专注于提取基础设施，该项目提高了对资源和社会变革的理解。除了为科学数据收集和分析方法提供研究生培训的培训外，这些发现还将对对解决冲突解决和自然资源提取感兴趣的政策研究人员和政策制定者有价值。研究将在一个社区中进行，该社区面临谁控制当地自然资源的问题，以便公平地了解社区成员如何导航基础设施。方法将包括参与者的观察和严格的文档（1）社区生活，日常工作和这些社区的活动以及（2）进行提取的公司的（2）。博士生将通过广泛的正式和非正式访谈，口述历史，媒体分析和档案研究来增强这些定性技术。通过调查挖掘基础设施如何影响社区成员以及社区在要求社会经济变化时如何参与相同的基础设施，这项研究产生了对资源富裕地区的社会变革和冲突的批判性知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并认为通过基金会的知识优点和广泛的crietia crietia criperia criperia criperia criperia criperia criperia criperia criperia criperia criperia均值得一提。