Dissertation Research: Agrarian Conflict and Environmentalism in Oaxaca

论文研究：瓦哈卡州的土地冲突和环保主义

• 批准号: 9630077
• 负责人: June Nash
• 金额: $ 0.95万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 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 1997-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9630077&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Agrarian; Conflict; Environmentalism

This project involves the dissertation research of a cultural anthropologist from City University of New York. The student will study the effect of the international environmental movement on political activism, self-representation and productive activities among people in the Chimalapa forest of Oaxaca, Mexico. This area is home to a pristine forest which is endangered by logging, infrastructure development (dams, highways, oil pipelines) and immigration. The local peasant farmers have allied themselves recently with international and national environmental activist groups to preserve the region. These effort is also caught up in local and national politics about NAFTA and the agrarian reform in Mexico. Using ethnographic techniques of intensive interviews, participant observation as well as surveys of the involved organizations, the project will investigate how the activity of the environmentalist groups impacts on local peasant political activities, as well as how the gender division of labor will be impacted by development projects. This research is important because it will advance our understanding of how global and national processes impact local communities. The specific case of forest conservation will provide materials that can generalize to similar situations where local communities organize to preserve a valued resource, and must learn to balance their relations with NGOs as well as government agencies. In addition the project will increase our society's expertise about this important area of the world.

本项目涉及一位来自纽约城市大学的文化人类学家的论文研究。 学生将研究国际环保运动对墨西哥瓦哈卡奇马拉帕森林人们的政治活动、自我代表和生产活动的影响。 该地区是原始森林的所在地，由于伐木、基础设施开发（水坝、高速公路、石油管道）和移民而濒临灭绝。 当地的农民最近与国际和国家环境活动家团体结盟，以保护该地区。 这些努力也被卷入了关于北美自由贸易协定和墨西哥土地改革的地方和国家政治。 该项目将利用深入访谈、参与观察以及对相关组织的调查等民族志技术，调查环保团体的活动如何影响当地农民的政治活动，以及发展项目如何影响性别分工。 这项研究很重要，因为它将促进我们对全球和国家进程如何影响当地社区的理解。 森林保护的具体案例将提供材料，可推广到类似的情况，当地社区组织起来保护宝贵的资源，必须学会平衡与非政府组织以及政府机构的关系。 此外，该项目将增加我们社会对世界这一重要领域的专门知识。