Dissertation Research: Knowledge and Ethics in the Debate Over Inuit Suicide

论文研究：因纽特人自杀争论中的知识和伦理

• 批准号: 0220814
• 负责人: Lawrence Cohen
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 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: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-11-01 至 2003-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0220814&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Knowledge; Ethics; Debate

This is a dissertation improvement grant for a modest $12,000 to cover transportation, video supplies for a Youth Video Documentary sub-project, informant honoraria, and a part-time research assistant. Knowledge and Ethics in the Debate Over Inuit Suicide (Knowledge and Ethics) is a long-term (12 month), multi-sited (Iqaluit, Pangnirtung, Toronto) ethnographic research project that seeks to understand how knowledge about suicide is produced in a multi-cultural and post-colonial milieu. Through semi-structured interviews, conversation, archival research, and a youth video project, Knowledge and Ethics proposes to study the social and political implications of western medical, scientific and journalistic knowledge on the subject of Inuit suicide.In addition, Knowledge and Ethics identifies and analyzes the dialog between Inuit ways of knowing and western biomedical knowledge. The divergent responses of psychiatrists, family members and suicidal individuals to research questions concerning human life, the preservation of life (ethics), and the self should provide data about different conceptions of reality and how meaning is created. Through careful discourse analysis the investigators hope to identify new ways of conceptualizing human life that are emerging in the Canadian arctic. Through such analyses, this research proposes to enhance and challenge theoretical discussions on the cultural construction of knowledge, indigenous identity, and the meanings of suicide, as well as, contribute to the ongoing debate about the creation of knowledge amidst upheaval and cultural confrontation.

这是一笔数额不大的论文改进补助金，金额为12,000美元，用于支付交通费用、青年视频纪录片子项目的视频用品、举报人酬金和兼职研究助理。因纽特人自杀争议中的知识与伦理（知识与伦理）是一项长期（12个月）、多地点（伊魁特人、潘涅东、多伦多）的民族志研究项目，旨在了解在多元文化和后殖民环境下，自杀知识是如何产生的。通过半结构化访谈、谈话、档案研究和一个青年录像项目，《知识与伦理》计划研究西方医学、科学和新闻知识对因纽特人自杀问题的社会和政治影响。此外，《知识与伦理》确定并分析了因纽特人的认知方式与西方生物医学知识之间的对话。精神科医生、家庭成员和有自杀倾向的个体在研究有关人类生命、生命保存（伦理）和自我的问题时的不同反应，应该提供关于现实的不同概念以及意义是如何创造的数据。通过仔细的话语分析，研究人员希望找出在加拿大北极出现的概念化人类生活的新方法。通过这些分析，本研究旨在加强和挑战关于知识的文化建构、本土认同和自杀意义的理论讨论，并有助于对动荡和文化对抗中知识创造的持续辩论。