Doctoral Dissertation Research: Making Real Money: Local Currency and Social Economies in the United States

博士论文研究：赚钱：美国的本地货币和社会经济

• 批准号: 0503199
• 负责人: Sarah Soule
• 金额: $ 0.52万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-04-01 至 2007-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0503199&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Making; Real

SES-0503199Sarah SouleAlan SchussmanUniversity of ArizonaLocal currencies have been founded in dozens of communities around the United States. By printing their own money that can only be used at participating local merchants or service providers, or in direct exchange with community members, advocates of local currencies try to reinvigorate local commerce, demonstrate community opposition to ``big box'' retailers and globalization, and support local employment. Although many local currencies have been founded around the country, most of them have had only limited success, but evenwhere local currencies fail to thrive, they raise scholarly questions about the reasons and the ways in which we organize the institutions within which we live. This project has two key concerns that emerge from those questions: First, the project seeks to explain the conditions under which local currencies operate, with the goal of building an understanding of how alternative economic organizations successfully challenge the deeply embedded and institutionalized practices that surround the use of money; second, and relatedly, this project explores the ways in which the meaning of money is reconfigured by the organizers and the users of local currencies.This project makes use of several research methods. The first is the compilation of a set of city-level data and data on the status of local currency projects in the United States; this data will be used to conduct a quantitative analysis of the survival of local currency projects. The second and third components of the project are surveys of local currency organizers and participants. These surveys will gather additional information about the organizations that sponsor and promote local currency around the country, and will explore the characteristics of the people involved with these projects, both those who manage them and those who participate in them by buying and selling using local currency.Local currencies are an innovative form of community economic organization that have previously gone under-studied by scholars. This project, the first to address local currencies with a large set ofquantitative data as well as case-oriented data, adds to sociological knowledge of organizational development and maintenance, social movement participation, and the social construction and use of mone

SES-0503199 Sarah SouleAlan Schussman亚利桑那大学当地货币已在美国各地的数十个社区成立。当地货币的倡导者通过印刷只能在参与的当地商人或服务提供商处使用或与社区成员直接兑换的货币，试图重振当地商业，表明社区反对"大盒子“零售商和全球化，并支持当地就业。尽管在全国各地建立了许多地方货币，但其中大多数都只取得了有限的成功，但即使地方货币未能蓬勃发展，它们也提出了关于我们组织我们生活的机构的原因和方式的学术问题。该项目有两个主要关切问题来自这些问题：第一，该项目试图解释当地货币运作的条件，目的是了解替代经济组织如何成功地挑战围绕货币使用的根深蒂固的制度化做法;第二，也是相关的，这个项目探讨了货币的意义是如何被当地货币的组织者和使用者重新配置的。这个项目使用了几种研究方法。第一个是汇编一套城市一级的数据和关于美国当地货币项目状况的数据;这些数据将用于对当地货币项目的生存情况进行定量分析。该项目的第二和第三部分是对当地货币组织者和参与者的调查。这些调查将进一步收集在全国范围内赞助和推广当地货币的组织的信息，并探讨这些项目的参与者，包括管理者和使用当地货币进行买卖的参与者的特征。当地货币是一种创新的社区经济组织形式，此前学者们对此研究不足。这个项目是第一个用大量的定量数据和面向案例的数据来处理当地货币的项目，增加了组织发展和维护、社会运动参与以及货币的社会建设和使用的社会学知识。