Dissertation Research: Construction of Power Relationships at the Local Level: Belizean Citrus Politics

论文研究：地方权力关系的构建：伯利兹柑橘政治

• 批准号: 8904185
• 负责人: Allen Johnson
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-06-15 至 1990-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8904185&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Construction; Power; Relationships

This dissertation research project supports a cultural anthropological study of workers and farmers in the citrus industry in Belize. The focus of the study is in how small firms and individual workers deal with the more powerful economic actors in the citrus industry to defend their interests. Methods will include surveys, intensive interviews, and participant observation. The research will shed light on the success or importance of development projects that attempt to democratize political and economic systems that have been organized in a repressively monopolistic manner. This research is important because Central America is a vitally important part of the hemisphere that is currently subject to severe unrest. Understanding of the causes of success and failure in local-level economic development projects, and of the causes of accommodation or unrest in local industries, can help guide policy in the future.

本论文研究项目支持文化 柑橘工人和农民的人类学研究 伯利兹工业。 研究的重点是小公司如何 而个体工人则要应对更强大的经济 柑橘产业的参与者捍卫自己的利益。 方法 将包括调查，密集访谈，和参与者 观察. 这项研究将揭示成功或 试图实现民主化的发展项目的重要性 政治和经济制度， 垄断的方式。 这项研究很重要，因为中美洲是一个重要的 西半球的重要部分，目前受到 严重的骚乱。 了解成功的原因， 地方一级经济发展项目的失败， 当地工业的适应或动荡的原因，可以帮助 未来的政策导向。