Catching the Wave of Capitalism in the Wake of the Nuclear Age: Subsistence, Development, and Environmental Security in French Polynesia

该奖项为博士后研究和培训的学生提供奖学金支持。 学生提出的研究项目题为“在核时代之后赶上资本主义浪潮：法属波利尼西亚的生存、发展和环境安全”。 这项研究认为，多边环境治理加速了环境退化，因为它没有认识到当地资源使用者和政治在保护和退化过程中的关键作用。 特别是，这项研究的重点是在Moorea和Raiatea，这主要是由妇女在泻湖进行，并提供高达70%的动物蛋白在当地饮食的生计捕鱼。 其论点是，最近渔业、农业和旅游业的加强导致妇女的自给性渔业边缘化，资源日益稀缺，可持续海洋资源管理做法崩溃，以及新形式的地方和区域环境冲突。实地工作方法包括：与渔民的访谈和参与观察（男人，女人，商业和生计）了解海洋资源政治的性质和层面;地理信息系统（GIS）的设计和建设，分析和绘制各种相互冲突的个人，国家和机构对海洋空间和使用的看法;以及档案研究，以确定妇女在波利尼西亚政治经济中的作用是如何被殖民者对性别的态度所塑造的。 从理论上讲，这项研究参与和扩大了对环境安全，性别和环境的辩论，以及地理信息科学的社会影响。

This award provides fellowship support to a student for post-doctoral research and training. The student's proposed research project is entitled `Catching the Wave of Capitalism in the Wake of the Nuclear Age: Subsistence, Development, and Environmental Security in French Polynesia.` This study argues that multilateral environmental governance precipitates environmental degradation by failing to recognize the critical role of local resource users and politics in processes of conservation and degradation. In particular, this study focuses on subsistence fishing in Moorea and Raiatea, which is primarily performed by women in lagoons, and provides up to 70 percent of animal protein in the local diet. The thesis is that the recent intensification of fishing, agriculture and tourism results in the marginalization of women's subsistence fishing, increasing scarcity of resources, a breakdown in sustainable marine resource management practices, and new forms of local and regional environmental conflicts. Fieldwork methods include: interviews and participant observation with fishers (men, women, commercial and subsistence) to understand the nature and dimensions of marine resource politics; the design and construction of a Geographic Information System (GIS) which analyzes and maps a variety of conflicting individual, state, and institutional perceptions of marine space and use; and the archival research to determine how the role of women in Polynesian political economy has been shaped by colonial attitudes on gender. Theoretically, this study engages and expands the debates over environmental security, gender, and the environment, and the social implications of Geographic Information Science.