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

该项目支持一个文化的论文研究 研究大规模人口迁移的人类学家 与中国的一个经济发展项目有关。 使用 参与式观察、调查和深入研究方法 家庭访谈，该项目将研究人们如何 受重新安置影响的人可以呼吁其亲属网络， 创造性地解决他们面临的问题。 理论 解释社区如何适应大规模搬迁， 从非洲、拉丁美洲和加勒比地区的案例研究中， 美国和其他地区，而这种比较案例研究将 提供有价值的材料来促进我们的理解。 这项研究很重要，因为越来越多的社区， 发展中国家将受到大规模水力发电的影响 这些项目将他们赶出他们的历史家园， 能源成本增加。 这一额外的案例研究来自 没有研究过重新安置的世界 人种学将促进我们对人类 让传统社区的人们适应根本性的变化。

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.