Dissertation Research: 'Ethnographic of a Trans-National Movement'

论文研究：“跨国运动的民族志”

• 批准号: 8915331
• 负责人: Sidney Mintz
• 金额: $ 0.7万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-02-01 至 1993-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8915331&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Ethnographic; Trans; National

This dissertation research project will support a cultural anthropologist who will study a trans-national movement ("Habitat") that builds homes for low-income people in the USA and in India. The student (a native of India) will conduct ethnographic research in the organization's headquarters in Georgia as well as in a housing site in Massachusetts and one in India. The questions to be dealt with include the nature of the identification of individuals with the movement, the variation in the ideology and practice of the movement as expressed in its activities in the US and the Indian site, and the dynamic of the grass-roots nature of the movement as expressed in its day-to-day administration. This research is important because trans-national movements are of growing significance in the contemporary world. The analysis of how this movement deals with homelessness, another issue of great contemporary concern, can produce information that can help us understand similar behavior in other countries.

本论文研究项目将支持一名文化人类学家，他将研究一项跨国运动（“Habitat”），该运动为美国和印度的低收入者建造房屋。该学生（印度本地人）将在乔治亚州的组织总部以及马萨诸塞州和印度的一个住房地点进行人种学研究。需要处理的问题包括该运动中个人身份的性质，该运动在美国和印度的活动中所表达的意识形态和实践的变化，以及在日常管理中表现出来的草根运动的活力。这项研究很重要，因为跨国运动在当代世界越来越重要。对这一运动如何处理无家可归问题（当代另一个备受关注的问题）的分析，可以提供一些信息，帮助我们理解其他国家的类似行为。