DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Mapping Identity Politics: Indigenous and Black Land Rights on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua

论文研究：绘制身份政治：尼加拉瓜大西洋沿岸的土著和黑人土地权利

• 批准号: 0090164
• 负责人: Charles Hale
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-06-01 至 2002-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0090164&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DISSERTATION; RESEARCH; Mapping; Identity; Politics

Identity politics refers to claims for resources and rights based on assertions of cultural difference, rather than claims based on social class or political party. This dissertation research project involves a cultural anthropologist from the University of Texas studying how ethnic mapping projects affect the natural resource claims of indigenous groups on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. The student will study how local Miskitu and Creole communities, in conjunction with NGOs and other organizations, advance claims over territory and natural resources. The project will pay special attention to the impact these claims have on gender relations and other forms of intra-community inequality. The tensions between indigenous and black communities, the relations between these communities and the state, and the intersecting variables of gender and class will also be studied. The methods to be used include family and oral history interviews, participant observation and archival research, as well as GIS-based mapping. This research will advance our understanding of the so-called new social movements, bringing into focus a range of theoretical approaches, from post-structuralist analyses of identity formation to more conventional theories of ethnic and racial politics. The new information to be gained from this case study will help us to understand similar processes of identity politics occurring throughout the world, from the former Yugoslavia to Chiapas, Mexico.

身份政治是指基于文化差异主张的资源和权利主张，而不是基于社会阶级或政党的主张。 该论文研究项目涉及德克萨斯大学的一位文化人类学家，研究民族测绘项目如何影响尼加拉瓜大西洋海岸土著群体的自然资源主张。 学生将研究当地米斯基图和克里奥尔社区如何与非政府组织和其他组织合作，提出对领土和自然资源的主张。该项目将特别关注这些主张对性别关系和其他形式的社区内不平等的影响。 土著和黑人社区之间的紧张关系、这些社区与国家之间的关系以及性别和阶级的交叉变量也将被研究。 使用的方法包括家族和口述历史访谈、参与观察和档案研究以及基于地理信息系统的制图。这项研究将增进我们对所谓新社会运动的理解，使人们关注一系列理论方法，从对身份形成的后结构主义分析到更传统的民族和种族政治理论。 从这个案例研究中获得的新信息将帮助我们了解从前南斯拉夫到墨西哥恰帕斯州在世界各地发生的类似的身份政治过程。