Global Partners?: Transnational Environmentalism and In Country Environmental Organizations

全球合作伙伴？：跨国环保主义和国内环保组织

• 批准号: 9601552
• 负责人: Priscilla Weeks
• 金额: $ 7.32万
• 依托单位: University of Houston - Clear Lake
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-09-01 至 1999-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9601552&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Global; Partners; Transnational; Environmentalism; Country

Using ethnographic methods and document analysis, this project will analyze how cultural differences affect the construction of environmentalism and how these differences affect collaboration between transnational and in-country non-governmental environmental organizations. The movements and organizations comprising environmentalism are exceptionally diverse and dynamic. They describe environmentalism in different ways and attach different meanings to the term. There is little research on the ways in which this conceptual diversity facilitates or constrains environmental advocacy. Specifically, this project will compare five Indian and two transnational environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which are located in the North. It will focus on the differential use of scientific and social justice concepts to frame environmental action and examine how conceptual and organizational diversity affects the global environmental movement. The social movements and science studies literatures frame the research questions, and methods from interpretive communication studies will be used to gather and analyze data. Publications, mission statements, project and annual reports, organizational charts will be collected when available from all organizations. The two transnational NGOs have published numerous reports, books, and treatises with their views on the nature of environmentalism. Textual analyses will be done on these materials, and the analyses will be used as a `yardstick` by which to gauge differences between national and transnational environmentalism. Field visits and long interviews will be conducted and tape recorded with staff of Indian NGOs. A network chart will be made for all organizations, chronicling their collaborations with government and private organizations and donors. In conjunction with information on collaborations, funding sources, and organizational history and structure, field notes, project visits, and informal interaction with staff will provide background information for thematic analyses and analyses of metaphor clusters, that can then be compared to the chart of collaborations. Results will be prepared for journal publication and presentations at professional meetings. They will be useful to local and transnational environmental organizations and to policy makers seeking to understand their priorities and concerns.

该项目将利用民族志方法和文献分析，分析文化差异如何影响环保主义的构建，以及这些差异如何影响跨国和国内非政府环保组织之间的合作。 环保主义的运动和组织异常多样化且充满活力。 他们以不同的方式描述环保主义，并赋予该术语不同的含义。 关于这种概念多样性如何促进或限制环境倡导的研究很少。 具体来说，该项目将比较五个印度和两个位于北部的跨国环境非政府组织（NGO）。 它将重点关注科学和社会正义概念的不同使用，以制定环境行动，并研究概念和组织多样性如何影响全球环境运动。 社会运动和科学研究文献构建了研究问题，解释性传播研究的方法将用于收集和分析数据。 将收集所有组织提供的出版物、使命宣言、项目和年度报告、组织结构图。这两个跨国非政府组织发表了大量报告、书籍和论文，阐述了他们对环保主义本质的看法。 将对这些材料进行文本分析，并将分析结果用作衡量国家和跨国环保主义之间差异的“标准”。 将对印度非政府组织的工作人员进行实地考察和长时间访谈并进行录音。 将为所有组织制作一个网络图表，记录它们与政府和私人组织以及捐助者的合作。 结合有关合作、资金来源、组织历史和结构的信息、现场笔记、项目访问以及与员工的非正式互动，将为主题分析和隐喻集群分析提供背景信息，然后可以将其与合作图表进行比较。 结果将用于期刊出版和专业会议上的演示。 它们对于当地和跨国环境组织以及寻求了解其优先事项和关注点的政策制定者将很有用。