Collaborative Research: Changes In Landscape, Labor And Livelihood In Long Chronological Context

合作研究：长期历史背景下景观、劳动力和生计的变化

• 批准号: 2050600
• 负责人: Christopher Pool
• 金额: $ 10.65万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 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: 2021-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050600&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Changes; Landscape; Labor

This project examines the strategies that households and communities undertake when dealing with economic and environmental uncertainty. The investigation focuses on how global and local fluctuation in sugar markets, political shifts, demographic decline, and environmental change, have affected the households and communities of field and mill workers, beginning with conscripted indigenous as well as enslaved and mestizo communities of the colonial era. Archaeological reconstructions situate present and past stressors, evaluations of risk, and responses within their historical context, a perspective that is not accessible through a focus on any single point of time, or through documents alone. This project contributes to the comparative assessment of economic trends, human-environmental interactions, resilience, and identity during periods of profound cultural change, and facilitate nuanced approaches to community development. It includes collaboration and education opportunities for multiple participants. The researchers engage local communities to determine what components of the study they find most useful in terms of application to policy and community resilience. The diachronic nature of the project means that it examines how past processes, revealed archaeologically, have influenced contemporary livelihoods and their diversification in the face of rapid economic change. Global economic integration, agricultural intensification, and the expansion of cash crop production has transformed and continues to affect communities that were once subjected to colonial domination. The researchers are specifically interested in how global economic integration has affected resilience strategies of local communities and households. How have people evaluated and responded to risk? What alternatives to market participation have they adopted? The study region hosted complex indigenous agricultural communities, which colonists conscripted to work in local sugar mills. An archaeological approach to the resilience of household adaptive strategies will enable global economic factors to be examined within the context of historical sugar communities. Paleoenvironmental reconstructions, geomorphological assessments of the impact of intensive agriculture on area soils and waterways, and archival analysis will complement and contextualize the archaeological study of these sites.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.

该项目研究了家庭和社区在处理经济和环境不确定性时采取的策略。该调查的重点是糖市场的全球和地方波动如何，政治转变，人口下降和环境变化如何影响野外和工厂工人的家庭和社区，从被宪法的土著人以及殖民时代的被奴役和混战社区开始。考古重建置于当前和过去的压力源，对风险的评估以及在其历史背景下的反应，这种观点无法通过关注任何单个时间点或单独的文件来访问。该项目有助于对经济趋势，人类环境相互作用，韧性和身份的比较评估，并促进了社区发展的细微差别方法。它包括为多个参与者提供的协作和教育机会。研究人员会吸引当地社区，以确定他们发现的研究的哪些组成部分在应用于政策和社区韧性方面最有用。该项目的历时性质意味着它检查了过去的考古学上如何影响当代生计及其在面对快速经济变化时的多元化。全球经济一体化，农业强化以及现金作物生产的扩展发生了变化，并继续影响曾经受到殖民统治的社区。研究人员特别对全球经济一体化如何影响当地社区和家庭的弹性战略感兴趣。人们如何评估和回应风险？他们采用了哪些市场参与的替代方法？该研究地区拥有复杂的土著农业社区，殖民者被征召在当地的糖厂工作。对家庭自适应策略的弹性的考古方法将使在历史糖社区的背景下进行研究。古环境重建，对密集农业对地区土壤和水道影响的影响的地貌评估以及档案分析将补充和背景化这些网站的考古研究。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影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过评估的支持。