Doctoral Dissertation Research: Factors Influencing Disproportionality in Land Dispossession

博士论文研究：影响土地征用比例失调的因素

• 批准号: 2342547
• 负责人: Paulla Ebron
• 金额: $ 3.2万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2342547&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Factors; Influencing

This doctoral dissertation research project contributes to understandings of the relationship between title, property, and land dispossession in anthropological science and sociolegal studies. The research centers on the dynamic interplay between bureaucratic institutions, legal advocates, and landowners in defining and redefining the legal boundaries of property ownership. Land dispossession is contributing significantly to vast economic inequity and instability, particularly for marginalized landowners. The project aims to expand understandings of how socioeconomic inequalities and property are intertwined with socio-political and economic mobility. In addition to training a graduate student in scientific data collection and analysis, this research sheds light on contemporary legal and political challenges landowners face in the United States and broadens studies on the phenomena of land grabbing in diverse social contexts. Findings and data from this project are being disseminated to academic and non-academic audiences. The research questions are: (1) What are the categories of property ownership? (2) Do specific forms of property ownership create an increased risk of dispossession for marginalized landowners? (3) In what ways are state and local bureaucratic systems intertwined with local private and public infrastructure projects that may facilitate land loss (4) What strategies do vulnerable landowners engage in to avoid dispossession and reclaim lands lost to dispossession? and (5) How do land and property ownership factor into understandings of citizenship and belonging? The project specifically explores the layers of complexity surrounding land dispossession through a range of ethnographic and sociolegal research methods, including participant observation, legal archival searches of land deeds, sociohistorical analyses of legal terminology, and the tracking of legal disputes. The project contributes to broader discussions on citizenship, rights, and belonging. Examining legal classifications may reveal contributing factors that disproportionately contribute to an increase in land loss for some landowners.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.

该博士论文研究项目有助于理解人类学和社会法学研究中所有权、财产和土地剥夺之间的关系。该研究的重点是官僚机构、法律倡导者和土地所有者在定义和重新定义财产所有权的法律边界时的动态相互作用。土地被剥夺严重加剧了巨大的经济不平等和不稳定，特别是对于边缘化的土地所有者而言。该项目旨在加深对社会经济不平等和财产如何与社会政治和经济流动性交织在一起的理解。除了培训研究生进行科学数据收集和分析之外，这项研究还揭示了美国土地所有者面临的当代法律和政治挑战，并拓宽了对不同社会背景下土地掠夺现象的研究。该项目的研究结果和数据正在向学术和非学术受众传播。研究问题是：（1）财产所有权有哪些类别？ (2) 特定形式的财产所有权是否会增加边缘化土地所有者被剥夺的风险？ (3) 州和地方官僚体系以何种方式与当地私人和公共基础设施项目交织在一起，从而可能加剧土地流失。 (4) 弱势土地所有者采取哪些策略来避免剥夺和收回因剥夺而失去的土地？ (5) 土地和财产所有权如何影响对公民身份和归属感的理解？该项目通过一系列人种学和社会法律研究方法，具体探讨了土地征用的复杂性，包括参与观察、土地契约的法律档案检索、法律术语的社会历史分析以及法律纠纷的跟踪。该项目有助于更广泛地讨论公民身份、权利和归属感。检查法律分类可能会揭示导致某些土地所有者土地损失增加的因素。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。