Industrial Development in Uncertain Times: Industrial Labour, Maoist Revolution and Natural Disaster in Nepal; an ethnography.

不确定时期的工业发展：尼泊尔的工业劳工、毛主义革命和自然灾害；

• 批准号: 386335074
• 负责人: Dr. Michael Hoffmann
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Ethnologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/386335074?language=en
• 关键词: Industrial; Development; Uncertain; Times; Labour

Natural disasters, armed conflicts and uprisings: The world is experiencing a period of uncertainty and destabilization. The effects are felt strongly in the world's poorest regions. This project focuses on a country that is particularly affected: Nepal. There is a political and economic crisis that has lasted since the end of the Maoist revolution in 2006. The record earthquake in April 2015 with thousands of deaths also destroyed large parts of the infrastructure in many areas of the country. This research project takes an anthropological perspective on how industrial development is taking place during these times of extreme uncertainty and crises.The aim of the project is to make an empirical as well as theoretical contribution to the study of contemporary industrialization processes in times of great uncertainty by highlighting the complex ways in which both armed conflicts and natural disasters shape labour relations in an industrial environment. Instead of searching for grand alternative models for the contemporary predicament of industrial labour in the global south, this project focuses on concrete local industrial field sites in Nepal, which are marked by a history of armed conflict and natural disaster. In this milieu of great uncertainty, which seems characteristic of many places in the global South, the project aims to develop an ethnographically informed theory for the grasp of industrialization under conditions of great uncertainty. How do social relations within a factory change after a Maoist revolution? Can an industrial workplace be used to manage trauma after an earthquake? Such and other questions are investigated by the project.This study will be primarily based on a nine month long ethnographic fieldwork within food factories in Kathmandu and in their immediate environment. Over the course of nine months, I intend to visit all factories within the area and conduct surveys with employers, employees and labour associations to get a general overview of labour conditions. One of my aims is to understand how workers conceptualize, understand and evaluate their work at different levels of the industrial hierarchy and in different spatial arenas (within/outside the factory). I will select two or three enterprises that represent different types of shop floor culture for extensive investigation that will continue throughout the fieldwork. Thus, a major part of the research will be a comparative study of different shop floors within one area. Industrialization in times of political crisis and disaster also represents one of the crucial issues in other South Asian countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh. Research in these domains can contribute significantly to a deeper understanding of how industrialists, managers and workers deal with these phenomena, as well as to the elaboration of novel approaches at the levels of policy, public debate and community activism.

自然灾害，武装冲突和起义：世界正在经历不确定性和不稳定的时期。在世界上最贫穷的地区，这种影响强烈。该项目着重于一个特别受影响的国家：尼泊尔。自2006年毛主义革命结束以来，人们一直持续一次政治和经济危机。2015年4月的纪录地震，数千人死亡也破坏了该国许多地区的大部分基础设施。该研究项目对在极端不确定性和危机期间的工业发展进行了人类学的观点。该项目的目的是在重大不确定性时期对当代工业化过程的研究做出经验和理论上的贡献，通过强调复杂的方式，在巨大的不确定性方面强调了既有军械冲突冲突和自然灾害的劳动力劳动关系的复杂方式。该项目没有为全球南方工业劳动的当代困境寻找宏伟的替代模型，而是着重于尼泊尔的具体地方工业田地，这是武装冲突和自然灾害史的标志。在这个巨大的不确定性环境中，这似乎是全球南方许多地方的特征，该项目旨在在极大的不确定性条件下开发一种人种学知情的理论，以掌握工业化的理论。 毛主义革命后工厂内的社会关系如何变化？地震后可以使用工业工作场所来管理创伤吗？该项目研究了此类问题。这项研究将主要基于加德满都的食品工厂内的九个月民族志实地调查。在九个月的时间里，我打算访问该地区内的所有工厂，并与雇主，雇员和劳工协会进行调查，以获取劳动条件的一般概述。我的目标之一是了解工人如何在工业层次结构和不同的空间领域（工厂内部/外部）概念化，理解和评估他们的工作。我将选择代表不同类型的商店地板文化的两个或三个企业，以进行广泛的调查，这些调查将在整个野外工作中继续进行。因此，研究的主要部分将是对一个区域内不同商店地板的比较研究。政治危机和灾难时期的工业化也代表了南亚国家（如巴基斯坦和孟加拉国）的关键问题之一。这些领域的研究可以对工业家，经理和工人如何处理这些现象以及在政策，公开辩论和社区活动的水平上阐述新方法的研究以及对新方法的阐述。