Dissertation Research: Negotiating the Uniformity of a Commodity -- The Case of the Rapessed Subsector in the People's Republic of China

论文研究：协商商品的统一——以中华人民共和国被强奸的部门为例

• 批准号: 9521546
• 负责人: Lawrence Busch
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-09-01 至 1996-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9521546&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Negotiating; Uniformity; Commodity

Commodity subsectors are social networks of human and non-human actors organized around a given commodity. They are a type of vehicle for transforming a commodity, and social relations and nature surrounding that commodity. This dissertation research is designed to improve our understanding of how a given subsector creates and maintains uniformity in a commodity through technical change. It uses the case of the rapeseed subsector in the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 1949 as an example. Each human actor in the subsector defines uniformity differently. Thus, technical changes for creating uniformity in a commodity reveal negotiations among conflicting interests in and values for that commodity in a subsector. The project follows rapeseed from production to consumption by using two complementary methods: (l) historical studies of the subsector and (2) interviews with participants. This award allows the dissertation student to undertake the documentary and field work research in the PRC needed to understand how the actors involved have negotiated the social and technical directions of rapeseed innovation.

商品分部门是围绕某一特定商品组织的人类和非人类行为者的社会网络。它们是一种媒介，用于改变一种商品，以及围绕该商品的社会关系和性质。这篇论文的研究旨在提高我们对特定部门如何通过技术变革创造和保持商品一致性的理解。它以1949年以来中华人民共和国中国(中国)油菜业界别为例。小组中的每个人类参与者对一致性的定义都不同。因此，为创造一种商品的统一性而进行的技术变革揭示了某一分部门中该商品的利益和价值之间的冲突。该项目通过两种互补的方法跟踪油菜籽从生产到消费：(L)分部门的历史研究和(2)对参与者的采访。这一奖项允许博士研究生在中国从事纪录片和实地研究，以了解参与其中的演员如何协商油菜籽创新的社会和技术方向。