Aquifers, Science, and Spatial Imaginaries

含水层、科学和空间想象

• 批准号: 2153960
• 负责人: Andrea Ballestero
• 金额: $ 45.56万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 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: 2021-10-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2153960&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Aquifers; Science; Spatial; Imaginaries

Despite remaining largely out of public view during the twentieth century, aquifers are emerging from their relative obscurity as governments invest considerable resources in scientific research and experiment with new governance models to face the looming global water crisis. This interdisciplinary research project investigates how, as aquifers gain more public attention, social life above the surface of the Earth intersects with the material world below it. The projects’ central research question examines how spatial imaginaries of the underground change when aquifers acquire a prominent place in the public sphere. With water becoming one of the most endangered resources globally, policy makers and experts increasingly understand the urgency of engaging local actors in aquifer protection. However, their ideas of who those actors are and how they conceptualize aquifers often assume single-issue representations of human experience. This project counterbalances those representations by investigating aquifers as spatial formations laden with cultural meaning.This research consists of a longitudinal, ethnographic, and multi-modal study of how increased circulation of scientific knowledge about aquifers recasts the relations between surface and subsurface, and reshapes the legal and cultural relations between property and environmental responsibility. The project investigates two recently created participatory aquifer management plans and focuses on the work that local residents, property owners, and public servants do to implement them. Specifically, the project (1) identifies the scientific ideas that circulate through participatory aquifer management plans, (2) documents how everyday citizens understand spatial features (surface and subsurface), (3) maps the projects through which participants enact their responsibility to protect aquifers, and (4) identifies the points of friction and the complementarities between demands to protect aquifers and the surface-based notions of property that participants hold. The project develops theoretical resources to conceptualize aquifers as more than water quantities waiting to be extracted. Methodologically, the project combines ethnographic research, data visualization techniques, and collaborative maping. Additionally, the project supports junior scholars with scientific training and professional mentoring.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.

尽管在二十世纪，尽管政府在科学研究中投资了大量资源，并以新的治理模型进行了新的治理模型，但仍在二十世纪的公众视野中仍然存在公众的看法，但含水层仍在相对的目标中脱颖而出。该跨学科研究项目研究了，随着含水层的更多公众关注，地球表面上方的社会生活与下面的物质世界相交。当含水层在公共领域中占据重要地位时，项目的中央研究问题考试如何对基础变化的空间想象力。随着水成为全球最濒危的资源之一，政策制定者和专家越来越了解让当地参与者参与含水层保护的紧迫性。但是，他们对这些演员是谁的想法以及他们如何概念化含水层通常会假定人类经验的单一问题表示。该项目通过将含水层调查为具有文化意义的空间形成来抵消这些代表。这项研究包括纵向，民族志和多模式研究，即有关含水层的科学知识的循环如何重塑地表与地下之间的关系，以及在财产和环境责任之间的法律和文化关系之间的关系。该项目调查了两个最近创建的含水层管理计划，并专注于当地居民，业主和公务员为实施它们所做的工作。具体而言，该项目（1）确定了通过参与含水层管理计划传播的科学思想，（2）记录了每天的公民如何理解空间特征（表面和地面），（3）绘制参与者构成保护含水层的项目的项目，（4）（4）（4）（4）识别摩擦和互补的参与者之间的互补指标，以保护含有保护词和保护含水仪，并保持了该属性的供应材料和表面上的含水库和含水库。该项目开发了理论资源，将含水层概念化为等待提取的水量。从方法上讲，该项目结合了人种学研究，数据可视化技术和协作映射。此外，该项目还通过科学培训和专业心理支持初级学者。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估值得支持。

项目成果

Trusts at the financial frontier: the flickering forms of property, water, and governance

金融前沿的信托：财产、水和治理的忽隐忽现的形式

• DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2176344
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Cultural Economy
• 影响因子: 1.9
• 作者: Ballestero, Andrea

Casual Planetarities: Choreographies, Resonance, and the Geologic Presence of People and Aquifers

偶然的行星：编排、共振以及人类和含水层的地质存在

• DOI: 10.1215/22011919-10746134
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Environmental Humanities
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: Ballestero, Andrea