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左翼农业和土著社区向富裕城市的迁移。许多农业家庭已经依靠家庭成员的外出务工收入来补充其农业生计，尽管这种对移民的依赖正在改变长期持有的农业。该博士论文项目除了为气候变化提供资金外，还通过关注土著农业家庭如何通过其农业和经济实践来理解和应对气候变化来研究气候变化与移民之间的联系。该项目对人类学和环境研究研究生进行实证、科学数据收集和分析方法的培训，将有助于对气候变化如何影响移民产生新的实证和理论理解。该项目的结果将传播给各组织。该项目是对土著自给农业家庭及其国际移民社区进行的多地点人种学研究。该项目提出了以下三个假设：土著农民依赖当地的气候知识。管理风险和农业的不确定性，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，以及移民引起的农业实践变化使农业家庭免受气候变化的影响。采用对农业和家庭经济实践的参与观察、半结构化访谈、经济日记和遥感的方法，其中研究人员参与者将与参与者合作拍摄航空照片并对他们的农业实践进行空间可视化。关于环境影响的学术研究移民、自给农民的家庭经济以及气候变化对移民的影响，此外还更广泛地推进环境人类学和人文地理学的学术发展。该奖项是 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力评估进行评估，被认为值得支持。优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。