Doctoral Dissertation Research: Transnational Corporations and Livelihood Transformation in Peru

博士论文研究：秘鲁的跨国公司与生计转型

• 批准号: 0002347
• 负责人: Anthony Bebbington
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 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: 2000-07-15 至 2001-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0002347&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Transnational; Corporations

During recent decades, transnational corporations (TNCs) have rapidly implement new forms of business operation throughout the world. The impact of TNCs has been especially profound in developing nations, where previous locally oriented economies have been transformed by the influx of foreign capital and managerial control. An increasingly important question across many nations is the degree to which TNCs impact on local development and on the livelihoods of the people who inhabit regions where they establish new facilities. This doctoral dissertation research project will evaluate how new transnational corporation business activities are affecting the human, natural, and social resources used by households in the northern Peruvian Andes. The project will evaluate if and how changing access to resources has affected household livelihoods and intra-household access to resources, especially as differential access is based on gender. In order to address these questions, three different sets of intensive, semi-structured interviews and focus groups based on intentional and random sampling procedures will be conducted in three communities over the course of eight months in the Cajamarca region of Peru. In addition, both qualitative text-based of archival material and analyses of data collected in a geographic information system will be used to evaluate the nature of the relationships between TNCs and livelihood transformation. The study will generate new basic data on household livelihood production strategies in the Peruvian Andes and how TNCs are contributing to livelihood transformation. The project also will generate data rgearding how TNC activities are affecting intra-household access to resources based on gender differences. The project will contribute to a framework of analysis that seeks to understand the different dimensions of local resource change and the links between international economic actors and the local scale. The field research will contribute to theoretical development in geographic political ecology and feminist political ecology studies, business and economic development research, and Latin American geographic studies. Furthermore, the project will contribute to academic and policy debates as it will identify and assess the impacts of international corporate mining activities on local capital resources through qualitative and GIS-based methodologies. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.

近几十年来，跨国公司在全世界迅速实施了新的商业运作形式。 跨国公司对发展中国家的影响尤其深远，因为外国资本的流入和管理控制改变了这些国家以前面向当地的经济。 在许多国家，一个日益重要的问题是，跨国公司在多大程度上影响了当地发展和它们建立新设施的地区居民的生计。 这篇博士论文的研究项目将评估新的跨国公司的商业活动是如何影响家庭使用的人力，自然和社会资源在北方秘鲁安第斯山脉。 该项目将评价获得资源机会的变化是否以及如何影响家庭生计和家庭内部获得资源的机会，特别是因为获得资源的机会有性别差异。 为了解决这些问题，将在八个月的时间里在卡哈马卡地区的三个社区进行三组不同的密集、半结构化访谈和基于故意和随机抽样程序的焦点小组。秘鲁。 此外，将利用档案材料的定性文本和对地理信息系统中收集的数据的分析来评价跨国公司与生计转变之间关系的性质。 这项研究将产生关于秘鲁安第斯山脉家庭生计生产战略以及跨国公司如何促进生计转变的新的基本数据。 该项目还将产生数据，说明跨国公司的活动如何根据性别差异影响家庭内部获得资源的机会。 该项目将有助于建立一个分析框架，力求了解当地资源变化的不同层面以及国际经济行为体与当地规模之间的联系。 实地研究将有助于地理政治生态学和女权主义政治生态学研究，商业和经济发展研究以及拉丁美洲地理研究的理论发展。 此外，该项目将有助于学术和政策辩论，因为它将通过定性和基于地理信息系统的方法，查明和评估国际公司采矿活动对当地资本资源的影响。 作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立的研究生涯。