Dissertation Research: Race-ing Nature and Erasing Space: Conservation, Colonialism, and Tanzania.

本项目将调查种族和民族在坦桑尼亚的保护、公园建设和旅游业中的作用。在殖民时期的坦桑尼亚，公园的空间起源于划定和控制。科学通过建立种族和自然等级制度以及自然保护对非洲本土土地使用方式的诋毁，将种族和自然带入了对话。制图技术和殖民统治的工具帮助划定了公园，作为这些假设的物理表现。该公园不仅是关于保护自然的声明，而且是试图排斥和贬低坦桑尼亚土著非洲人的低人一等的地位。通过保护和殖民主义，公园成为种族和民族差异的象征；太空被“种族化”了。利用多种文献，本研究考察了殖民时期和当代坦桑尼亚的种族、民族和保护之间的关系。该项目将审查殖民立法对公园、土著土地使用和土著人口流动的影响；保育政策及措施；以及游客和住在公园附近的当地人的经历和假设。该项目将采用档案研究和话语分析、参与者观察以及与政府官员和非政府雇员的访谈。跨学科的思考将为项目的历史和科学基础提供信息。由于很少有研究专门针对空间的“种族化”，本项目建立在知识社会学、种族和民族社会学以及环境社会学的调查基础上。该项目的主要目标是进一步将哲学课程纳入坦桑尼亚的当代保护政策。这种多学科的方法延伸到项目的方法，它结合了历史和人种学的方法。研究人员在参与观察和档案分析方面受过训练和经验，为进行这项研究做好了充分的准备。更广泛的影响作为博士论文研究改进补助金，该项目自动将研究和理解的目标与促进学术学习配对。在坦桑尼亚期间，该研究人员将与当地的顾问和研究人员密切合作，特别是在达累斯萨拉姆大学，以便促进合作学习和建立一个跨大西洋研究网络。这项研究还将产生英语和斯瓦希里语的出版物，这些出版物将在美国传播。和坦桑尼亚。最后，通过将坦桑尼亚的保护历史化，并试图将种族和民族纳入其定义，该项目包括对城市贫民区、殖民制图和土著人民的研究，为东非潜在的政策变化提供了模型。

Project SummaryThis project will investigate the role of race and ethnicity in conservation, park establishment, and tourism in Tanzania. The space of the park in colonial Tanzania originated in delineation and control. Science brought race and nature into conversation through the establishment of racial and natural hierarchies and conservation's vilification of native African land use practices. Cartographictechniques and the tools of colonial governance helped demarcate the park as a physical manifestation of these assumptions. The park was not only a statement about the conservation of nature but an attempt to exclude and relegate native Africans to a position of inferiority in Tanzania. Through conservation and colonialism, the park came to symbolize racial and ethnic difference; space was 'racialized.' Drawing on a diverse literature this study examines the relationship among race, ethnicity, and conservation in colonial and contemporary Tanzania. The project will examine the impact of colonial legislation on parks, natives' land use, and the movement of natives; conservation policies and practices; and the experiences and assumptions of tourists and local people living near parks. The project will employ archival research and discourse analysis, participant observation and interviews with government officials and non-governmental employees. Intellectual MeritsCross-disciplinary thinking will inform the project's historical and scientific underpinnings. Because little research speaks specifically to the 'racialization' of space, this project builds on investigations in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of race and ethnicity, and environmental sociology. The project's primary goal further aims to incorporate the lessons of philosophy into contemporary conservation policy in Tanzania. This multi-disciplinary approach extends to the project's methodology, which combines historical and ethnographic methods. With training and experience in participant observation and archival analysis, the researcher is well-prepared to do this study.Broader ImpactsAs a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant, this project automatically pairs the goals of research and understanding with the promotion of academic learning. While in Tanzania the researcher willwork closely with local advisors and researchers, particularly at the University of Dar Es Salaam,in order to promote collaborative learning and establish a cross-Atlantic research network. Thisstudy will also generate publications in English and Kiswahili that will be disseminated in theU.S. and Tanzania. Finally, by historicizing conservation in Tanzania and attempting to incorporate race and ethnicity into its definition, the project , including studies of urban ghettos, colonial cartography, andindigenous peoples, model for potential policy change in East Africa.