Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Effect of Changing Credit Strategies on Land-Management Practices: The Political Ecology of Cloves in Minahasa, Indonesia

博士论文研究：改变信贷策略对土地管理实践的影响：印度尼西亚米纳哈萨丁香的政治生态

• 批准号: 0000285
• 负责人: Louise Fortmann
• 金额: $ 0.89万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-04-01 至 2001-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0000285&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Effect; Changing

A number of theoretical frameworks have emerged from the work of researchers examining the complex political, economic, and cultural dynamics through which individuals and groups engage in agricultural production. Among the theories that have shed new light on certain facets of this problem are political ecology, non-market struggles in agricultural production, and contract farming. This doctoral dissertation research project will examine how the land-management practices, land-use controls, and land access of clove farmers in north central Indonesia change in response to their use of different strategies for obtaining credit. The project will be conducted in Tincep village in the province of Minahasa on the northern part of the island of Sulawesi. A range of qualitative research approaches, including participant observation, survey, and in-depth, semi-structured interviews as well as analyses of government documents and traders' record books, will be used to assess which economic, political, and social strategies farmers in conjunction with specific crediting strategies. Special attention will be given to analyses of the roles that different kinds of creditors, including some technically outlawed under contracts between farmers and the state. Among the broader questions to be addressed through this project are: Why have clove farmers chosen to engage in particular crediting arrangements with village-based crop mortgagers or city-based speculators at specific times in the harvest cycle and over specific periods during the last decade? How do struggles over land-management practices reflect struggles over who has legitimate standing to take part in different kinds of capital accumulation? What is the impact of different types of crediting systems on land-management and production practices? This project will shed new light on the highly variable roles and relationships of different groups in the clove-based agricultural economy of the region. It will examine how state policies have fostered the development of particular kinds of crediting practices, and it will challenge more standard notions of what it means to be a farmer, a creditor, or a local official and how this shapes what kinds of credit-related relationships arise in this production system. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.

研究人员通过研究个人和群体参与农业生产的复杂政治、经济和文化动态，得出了许多理论框架。 政治生态学、农业生产中的非市场斗争和订单农业等理论为这一问题的某些方面提供了新的启示。 该博士论文研究项目将研究印度尼西亚中北部丁香种植者的土地管理实践、土地使用控制和土地获取如何因他们使用不同的信贷策略而发生变化。 该项目将在苏拉威西岛北部米纳哈萨省的 Tincep 村进行。 一系列定性研究方法，包括参与观察、调查、深入、半结构化访谈以及对政府文件和贸易商记录簿的分析，将用于评估农民采取哪些经济、政治和社会策略以及具体的信贷策略。 将特别关注对不同类型债权人的作用的分析，包括一些在农民与国家之间的合同下技术上被禁止的债权人。 该项目要解决的更广泛的问题包括：为什么丁香农民选择在收获周期的特定时间和过去十年的特定时期与村庄农作物抵押人或城市投机者进行特定的信贷安排？ 关于土地管理实践的斗争如何反映关于谁拥有参与不同类型资本积累的合法地位的斗争？ 不同类型的信用体系对土地管理和生产实践有何影响？ 该项目将为该地区以丁香为主的农业经济中不同群体的高度可变的角色和关系提供新的线索。 它将研究国家政策如何促进特定类型信贷实践的发展，并将挑战更标准的概念，即农民、债权人或地方官员的含义，以及这如何塑造该生产体系中出现的信贷相关关系。 作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将为有前途的学生建立强大的独立研究生涯提供支持。