Doctoral Dissertation Research: Bioprospecting and Scientific Knowledge in Post-Conflict Societies

博士论文研究：冲突后社会的生物勘探和科学知识

• 批准号: 2046089
• 负责人: Paulla Ebron
• 金额: $ 2.4万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-06-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2046089&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Bioprospecting; Scientific

The doctoral dissertation project investigates the mobilization of biodiversity as a resource for building post-conflict futures in societies transitioning from war to peace. In a context where pharmaceutical and other industries are increasingly searching for alternative sources of materials to develop their products, places that exhibit high biodiversity are experiencing unprecedented interest in bioprospecting—the survey, study, and commercialization of biological resources. This research examines what is at stake when biodiversity is mobilized as a resource for producing economic gain in regions recovering from war. The doctoral student investigates the potential of bioprospecting as a means of shaping local communities' expectations, scientists' practices, and peacemaking aspirations. In addition to contributing to the training of a graduate student in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, this research will enrich scientific understanding of the role of scientists and environmental knowledge in the context of political transition, particularly post-conflict scenarios. More broadly, the findings of this research will advance the scientific analysis of the simultaneous production of science, nature, and peacebuilding aspirations. By broadening the participation of people and locations historically underrepresented, this project will inform scientists and policymakers working in the fields of peacebuilding, bioprospecting, and science and innovation. By conducting twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork, the doctoral student will follow a group of scientists, rural residents, and state officials in laboratories, coastal landscapes, and government offices as they embark on a bioprospecting project in a biodiverse and conflict-affected area. This research will examine the conditions that enable the survey and marketization of biodiversity and how bioprospecting is experienced and constituted through the encounters between scientists, rural residents, and government officials. Data will be collected through participant observation, laboratory ethnography, participatory mapping exercises, interviews, life-histories, and document analysis. After data integration and analysis, results will be disseminated among scientists, state officials, academics, and residents of relevant places.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.

博士论文项目调查了动员生物多样性，作为建立社会冲突后未来的资源，从战争到和平。在制药和其他行业越来越多地寻找开发其产品的替代材料来源的情况下，暴露于高生物多样性的地方正在对生物培训中的前所未有的兴趣 - 生物资源的调查，研究和商业化。这项研究考试将生物多样性被动员为在战争中恢复的地区产生经济增长的资源时受到威胁。博士生调查了生物培训的潜力，作为塑造当地社区期望，科学家的实践和和平愿望的一种手段。除了促进研究生在经验，科学数据收集和分析方法方面的培训外，这项研究还将丰富对科学家和环境知识在政治过渡（尤其是冲突后情况）中的作用的科学理解。从更广泛的角度来看，这项研究的结果将推进对科学，自然和建设和平愿望的同时生产的科学分析。通过扩大历史上代表性不足的人们和地点的参与，该项目将为在建设和平，生物培训以及科学与创新领域工作的科学家和政策制定者提供信息。通过进行十二个月的民族志实地调查，博士生将跟随一群科学家，农村居民和州官员在实验室，沿海景观和政府办公室中，他们在生物多元化和受冲突影响地区进行生物培训项目。这项研究将研究能够通过科学家，农村居民和政府官员之间的相遇来实现生物多样性的调查和市场化以及如何经历和构成生物概况的条件。数据将通过参与观察，实验室民族志，参与映射练习，访谈，生活历史和文档分析来收集数据。经过数据集成和分析后，结果将在科学家，州官员，学者和相关地点的居民中传播。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估审查标准来通过评估来支持的。