Dissertation Research: Development and Ethnicity in Guatemala

论文研究：危地马拉的发展与种族

• 批准号: 9728954
• 负责人: George Collier
• 金额: $ 1.07万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-07-01 至 1999-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9728954&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Development; Ethnicity; Guatemala

This project involves the dissertation research of a student from Stanford University, studying how a grassroots indigenous development organization in Guatemala uses ethnic cultural practices to transform the goals and effects of development. Based in the municipality of Totonicapan, the project will examine a large development project, the `Cooperation for Western Rural Development`, to assess how local ethnic identities are reflected in the design and practice of development activities. The methods will include intensive participant observation in the development organization as well as a census of eight local communities to assess their involvement in development projects, more intensive studies in two communities, one where projects are established and one where they are just being institutionalized. This research is important because most development projects implicitly or explicitly assume that local ethnicity will give way towards more Western, European, middle-class values and practices. Yet new development organizations are contesting that model, forging new approaches to join the best of local ethnic identity with developed institutions. This project will advance our knowledge of this new approach as well as contribute to the training of a young social scientist.

这个项目涉及到斯坦福大学的一名学生的论文研究，研究危地马拉的一个草根土著发展组织如何利用民族文化实践来改变发展的目标和效果。该项目位于日本东尼卡市，将考察一个大型开发项目“西部农村发展合作”，以评估当地民族身份如何反映在开发活动的设计和实践中。这些方法将包括对发展组织进行深入的参与观察，以及对8个当地社区进行普查，以评估它们对发展项目的参与情况，在两个社区进行更深入的研究，其中一个社区已建立项目，另一个社区刚刚将项目制度化。这项研究很重要，因为大多数发展项目都或隐或明地假设，地方种族将让位给更多的西方、欧洲、中产阶级的价值观和做法。然而，新的发展组织正在挑战这种模式，形成新的方法，将最好的地方民族认同与发达机构结合起来。这个项目将促进我们对这种新方法的认识，并有助于培养年轻的社会科学家。