Doctoral Dissertation Research: Capital-Intensive Scheme andCultural Adaptation to Involuntary Resettlement in China

本项目支持文化人类学家对中国经济发展项目相关大规模人口安置的论文研究。该项目将采用参与性观察、调查和家庭密集访谈等方法，研究受重新安置影响的人如何呼吁其亲属网络为他们面临的问题制定创造性的解决办法。解释社区如何适应大规模搬迁和破坏的理论是从非洲、拉丁美洲和其他地区的案例研究中发展起来的，这个比较案例研究将提供有价值的材料来推进我们的理解。这项研究很重要，因为随着能源成本的增加，越来越多的发展中国家的社区将受到大规模水电项目的影响，这些项目将把他们赶出他们的历史家园。这一来自世界上尚未对重新安置进行人种学研究的地区的额外案例研究将促进我们对传统社区中人们适应急剧变化的能力的理解。

This project supports the dissertation research of a cultural anthropologist studying large-scale population resettlement associated with an economic development project in China. Using methods of participant observation, surveys and intensive interviews of households, the project will study how people affected by resettlement can call upon their kinship networks to develop creative solutions to the problems they face. The theory explaining how communities adapt to massive relocation and disruption has been developed from case studies in Africa, Latin America and other areas, and this comparative case study will provide valuable material to advance our understanding. This research is important because more and more communities in the developing world will be affected by massive hydroelectric projects which flood them out of their historic homelands, as energy costs increase. This additional case study from a part of the world where resettlement has not been studied ethnographically will advance our understanding of the abilities of people in traditional communities to adapt to radical change.