DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Social Consequences of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project

论文研究：莱索托高地水项目的社会后果

• 批准号: 0092192
• 负责人: Michael Burton
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 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: 2001-02-01 至 2002-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0092192&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DISSERTATION; RESEARCH; Social; Consequences; Lesotho

One of the five largest development projects currently under construction in the world today, the Lesotho Highlands water Project (LHWP) in Southern Africa has a major impact on the lives of people affected by the project. This dissertation research by a cultural anthropologist from the University of California-Irvine will study the effects of the project in Lesotho through the lens of gender relations. The differential impact (usually negative) of development projects on women has given rise to studies in the various traditions of "Women in Development", "Women and Development" and "Gender and Development". These glosses describe different approaches to understanding and examining women's significance in society and in development. Employing a feminist political ecology approach, the student will conduct multi-site ethnographic research involving three dam sites at different stages of construction and implementation (resettled, impacted, and non impacted), with two waves of structured surveys and semi-structured interviews to examine the ways project-affected populations are experiencing development. Gender, class, age, and other socio-economic and socio-cultural categories will be examined to investigate the social consequences of the LHWP on communities and households. The new knowledge to be created will be valuable to development planners as well as to students of river basin projects and of southern Africa. In addition the project helps to train a young social scientist.

莱索托高地水项目是当今世界上正在建设的五个最大的发展项目之一，对受项目影响的人们的生活产生了重大影响。加州大学欧文分校的一位文化人类学家将通过性别关系的透镜研究该项目在莱索托的影响。发展项目对妇女的不同影响（通常是负面的）引起了对“妇女参与发展”、“妇女与发展”和“性别与发展”等各种传统的研究。这些解释说明了理解和审查妇女在社会和发展中的重要性的不同方法。采用女权主义政治生态学的方法，学生将进行多站点的人种学研究，涉及三个坝址在建设和实施的不同阶段（重新安置，影响，和非影响），有两波结构化调查和半结构化访谈，以检查项目的方式受影响的人口正在经历发展。 将对性别、阶级、年龄和其他社会经济和社会文化类别进行审查，以调查LHWP对社区和家庭的社会后果。将要创造的新知识将对发展规划者以及河流流域项目和南部非洲的学生很有价值。此外，该项目还帮助培训一名青年社会科学家。