Doctoral Dissertation Research: Migration and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge

博士论文研究：迁徙与本土生态知识

• 批准号: 2214972
• 负责人: Michael Dove
• 金额: $ 2.2万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 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: 2022-06-15 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2214972&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Migration; Indigenous

Anthropogenic climatic change is predicted to increase migration from marginalized agrarian and indigenous communities to wealthier cities. Already, many agrarian households rely on family members’ incomes from migrant labor to supplement their agricultural livelihoods, even as this reliance on migration is changing long-held agricultural practices and associated knowledge systems. This doctoral dissertation project examines the link between climatic change and migration by centering how indigenous agrarian households understand and respond to climatic change through their agricultural and economic practices. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology and environmental studies in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, this project will contribute to an emerging empirical and theoretical understanding of how climate change impacts migration. The results of this project will be disseminated to organizations working at the nexus of climate change, agriculture, and migration. This project is a multi-sited ethnographic study of indigenous subsistence farming households and their international migrant communities. This project forwards the following three hypotheses: that indigenous farmers rely upon local climatic knowledge in managing the risks and uncertainties of agriculture, that households manage the risks and uncertainties of migration by maintaining the land and resources necessary for cultivation, and that migration-induced changes in agricultural practices insulate or expose agricultural households to the effects of climatic change. To test these hypotheses this project employs the methods of participant observation of agricultural and household economic practices, semi-structured interviews, economic diaries, and participant remote sensing, in which the researcher will work with participants to take aerial photographs and make spatial visualizations of their farming practices. This project contributes to scholarship on the environmental impacts of migration, the household economy of subsistence farmers, and the impact of climate change on migration, in addition to advancing scholarship in environmental anthropology and human geography more broadly.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.

预计人为气候变化将增加从边缘化的农业和独立社区向富裕城市的迁移。尽管这种依赖对移民的依赖正在改变长期以来的农业实践和相关的知识系统，但许多农业家庭已经依靠来自移民劳动的家庭收入来补充其农业生计。该博士学位论文项目通过以农业和经济实践的方式理解和应对群集变化，研究气候变化与迁移之间的联系。除了为在经验，科学数据收集和分析方法中培训人类学和环境研究研究生的资金外，该项目还将有助于对气候变化如何影响迁移的新兴经验和理论理解。该项目的结果将被传播给在气候变化，农业和移民联系的组织中。该项目是一项关于土著居民耕种家庭及其国际移民社区的多人民族志研究。该项目将以下三个假设提出：个人农民依靠当地的民事知识来管理农业的风险和不确定性，家庭通过维持耕种所需的土地和资源来管理移民的风险和不确定性，并且迁移诱发的农业实践的变化使农业家庭的变化造成了农业家庭的变化。为了检验这些假设，该项目采用了参与农业和家庭经济实践，半结构化访谈，经济日记和参与远程敏感性的方法，研究人员将与参与者合作拍摄航空照片并对其农业实践进行空间可视化。该项目对移民的环境影响，生存农民的家庭经济以及气候变化对移民的影响促进了科学，此外，除了更广泛地推进环境人类学和人类地理学方面的科学外，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用该基金会的知识优点和广泛影响来评估来表现出珍贵的支持。