Dissertation Research: Forestry Culture, Language, Institutions and Power in Mexican Forest Management

论文研究：墨西哥森林管理中的林业文化、语言、机构和权力

• 批准号: 0002132
• 负责人: Michael Dove
• 金额: $ 0.79万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 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: 2000-08-01 至 2001-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0002132&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Forestry; Culture; Language

The focus of this dissertation research is the role of silviculture in political debates over community forest management in Oaxaca, Mexico. Recent ethnographic studies of laboratory science have highlighted the role of laboratory cultures. This study builds upon these approaches to look at forest management in the field, rather than in the research laboratory, using silvicultural science as lens to look at interactions between foresters and non-foresters. In the last 20 years there has been a worldwide shift in forest management responsibility from state forests services to forest communities and private owners. Mexico parallels these trends, and over 80% of forest land is owned by communities and municipalities. Foresters have been trained to work effectively in bureaucracies, but are not used to communicating with private land owners and community members. This research seeks to pinpoint what kinds of rhetorical techniques are most effective in communicating knowledge about the forest and building broad based legitimacy for forest management activities. A particular focus will be the extent to which foresters' and non-foresters knowledge about the forest is integrated into management recommendations. This research will tie together a history of Mexican silviculture and state forestry institutions, with a history of local communities, so as to put into context the present-day political debates about forest management. It will trace the connections between the discourses used by foresters, and the creation of technical knowledge, power and legitimacy for foresters. It will also look at how different stakeholders' historical experiences and institutional locations affect their knowledge about the forest, how they argue for and support their own forms of knowledge, and their own agendas in the forest.

本论文研究的重点是营林在墨西哥瓦哈卡州社区森林管理的政治辩论中的作用。最近实验室科学的人种学研究突出了实验室培养的作用。这项研究建立在这些方法的基础上，在实地而不是在研究实验室中观察森林管理，使用营林科学作为透镜来观察林农和非林农之间的互动。在过去的20年里，世界范围内的森林管理责任从国家森林服务部门转移到森林社区和私人所有者。墨西哥与这些趋势相似，80%以上的林地归社区和市政当局所有。林业员接受了在官僚机构有效工作的培训，但不习惯与私人土地所有者和社区成员沟通。这项研究试图找出什么样的修辞技巧在传播有关森林的知识和为森林管理活动建立广泛的合法性方面最有效。一个特别的重点将是林农和非林农关于森林的知识在多大程度上被纳入管理建议。这项研究将把墨西哥造林业和国家林业机构的历史与当地社区的历史联系起来，以便将当今关于森林管理的政治辩论纳入背景。它将追溯林农使用的话语与为林农创造技术知识、权力和合法性之间的联系。它还将考察不同利益攸关方的历史经验和机构位置如何影响他们对森林的知识，他们如何为自己的知识形式辩护和支持，以及他们在森林中的议程。