Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Financialization of Industrial Waste Recycling

博士论文研究：工业废物回收的金融化

• 批准号: 2148995
• 负责人: Shannon Dawdy
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 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: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-15 至 2024-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2148995&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Financialization; Industrial

Considerable waste is generated in industrial settings, and efforts are frequently made to recycle waste more efficiently and profitably. The commoditization of waste among transnational institutions has broad economic, environmental, and health implications for communities that engage in the trade of waste. This study focuses in particular on the recycling of scrap metal from the shipbuilding industry, which employs large numbers of workers in domestic and international contexts. At multiple sites, the researchers use a complement of ethnographic methods to examine how working conditions, social organization, and ecological factors are impacted by fluctuations in the transnational flows of waste and its financialization. Relevant findings are shared with diverse stakeholders to improve local and global recycling infastructures in ways that enhance the working conditions of laborers in the industry while minimizing environmental impacts.This doctoral dissertation project examines the social and ecological consequences of changes in the commoditization of scrap metal waste. The researchers employ participant observation among financial professionals working in international scrap-metal markets. Similar ethnographic methods are used among workers at a ship-breaking yard. In addition to participation observation, semi-structured interviews will be conducted with a sample of key informants at both sites. Surveys and archival research on changes in the policies and economics of the scrap-metal provide complementary data that contextualize the ethnographic research. The findings of this research contribute to debates in economic anthropology, science and technology studies, and scholarship on the anthropology of finance, work, and waste. The project also contributes to the education of a graduate student in the social sciences.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.

在工业环境中产生了大量的废物，并且经常努力使浪费更有效，有利可图。跨国机构之间废物的商品化对从事废物贸易的社区具有广泛的经济，环境和健康影响。这项研究尤其着重于造船行业的废金属的回收，该行业在国内和国际环境中雇用了大量工人。在多个地点，研究人员使用人种学方法的补充来研究工作条件，社会组织和生态因素如何受废物及其金融化的跨国流动的波动影响。相关的发现与多样化的利益相关者共享，以改善本地和全球回收的基础结构，从而增强行业劳动者的工作条件，同时最大程度地降低环境影响。该博士学位论文项目研究了刮水金属废物商品化变化的社会和生态后果。研究人员在国际废品市场工作的金融专业人士中采用参与者的观察。在破旧院子的工人中也使用了类似的人种学方法。除了参与观察外，还将对两个站点的关键线人样本进行半结构化访谈。对废品片的政策和经济学变化的调查和档案研究提供了将人种志研究与人种志研究相关的互补数据。这项研究的结果有助于经济人类学，科学和技术研究以及有关金融，工作和废物人类学的奖学金。该项目还为社会科学研究生的教育做出了贡献。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优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来评估值得支持的。