Dissertation Research: Fisheries Cooperatives, Urbanization, and Changing Environments in Japan

论文研究：日本的渔业合作社、城市化和不断变化的环境

• 批准号: 0612838
• 负责人: Bonnie McCay
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0612838&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Fisheries; Cooperatives; Urbanization

Graduate student Satsuki Takahashi, supervised by Dr. Bonnie J. McCay, will undertake research on how community-based conservation is developed and maintained over time and in changing circumstances. Building on anthropological theories of practice and studies of natural resource management, the researcher will study four fisheries cooperatives in Ibaraki, Japan. It is often emphasized that the legally privileged property rights to access particular coastal resources have helped Japanese fisheries cooperatives develop and maintain community-based management institutions over their long history since the 1800s. Yet, in contrast to the popular belief of a static state of cooperation maintained over this time history, this researcher hypothesizes that such institutions have been constructed through dynamic negotiations among people and between people and their coastal environments. Through archival research, semi-structured interviews, and participant observation, the researcher will investigate how each cooperative has managed coastal resources over the last fifty years, a period when the cooperatives and their members experienced major socio-cultural and ecological changes associated with urbanization. This in-depth historical and ethnographical research will provide opportunities to gain an understanding of the interplay between practices, situations, and contexts in contemporary Japanese culture and to gain further understanding of community-based natural resource management.

研究生Satsuki Takahashi在Bonnie J. McCay博士的指导下，将研究如何随着时间的推移和不断变化的情况下开发和维护以社区为基础的保护。基于人类学的实践理论和自然资源管理的研究，研究者将研究日本茨木的四个渔业合作社。人们经常强调，在19世纪以来的漫长历史中，获得特定沿海资源的法律特权财产权帮助日本渔业合作社发展和维持了基于社区的管理机构。然而，在这段历史中，人们普遍认为合作是静态的，与此相反，研究人员假设，这种制度是通过人与人之间以及人与沿海环境之间的动态谈判建立起来的。通过档案研究，半结构化访谈和参与观察，研究人员将调查每个合作社如何管理沿海资源在过去的五十年里，合作社及其成员经历了与城市化相关的重大社会文化和生态变化的时期。这种深入的历史和民族志研究将提供机会，以获得在当代日本文化的做法，情况和背景之间的相互作用的理解，并获得以社区为基础的自然资源管理的进一步了解。