Dissertation Research: Doing Nanotechnology in the 21st Century Postsocialist China: Local Worlds and Alternative Modernities

论文研究：21世纪后社会主义中国的纳米技术：本土世界和另类现代性

• 批准号: 0621150
• 负责人: Joan Fujimura
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 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: 2006-07-15 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0621150&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Doing; Nanotechnology; 21st

This NSF Science and Society Dissertation Improvement Grant funds dissertation research focusing on the emergence of nanotechnology in China. The project is using the case study of China to reconsider social theories of science, modernization and globalization. Under this grant, the doctoral student will gather ethnographic data to address several postcolonial debates in social studies of science and literatures on China's socio-economic transformation. The researcher will specifically investigate two metropolitan Chinese cities: Beijing and Shanghai, and attempt to show how local politics and situated mentalities can significantly shape research practice among Chinese scientists in nanotechnology. The project will examine how their intellectual networks, especially with ethnic Chinese scientists overseas, help them overcome language barriers, acquire useful information and obtain other help to conduct nanotechnology research for an increasingly international audience. The project also exams how academic exchanges between overseas and local Chinese scientists mutually shape the research practice of each other. To supplement the data collection, the student will also interview a smaller number of scientists in U.S. and Hong Kong, and will collect ethnographic data from participant-observations in professional conferences and meetings in U.S., China and Hong Kong. Finally, the student will visit several special collection sections in Chinese libraries during the research trip for documentary analysis. China is currently undergoing rapid socio-economic transformations. Scientific research has benefited from rapid advances in telecommunication and transportation in that country, but not much is known about Chinese science actors. In addition, the country continues to possess enormous within-country variations, but we do not know how such variations manifest in high-technology development in China. As the global emergence of nanotechnology will involve China, this project's findings will help identify the various kinds of opportunities, constraints and debates in front of Chinese scientists. The understanding will be useful materials for transnational comparisons. The project will also shed new light to postcolonial studies of science. To date, no studies have used postcolonial theories to examine high technology development in China. Research findings from this study will be used as teaching materials for college and graduate courses, particularly in social studies of science. In addition, results of this research will be disseminated to other scientists, social scientists, as well as the general public.

这个NSF科学与社会论文改进补助金资助论文研究的重点是纳米技术在中国的出现。该项目正在利用中国的案例研究来重新思考科学、现代化和全球化的社会理论。 根据这项资助，博士生将收集民族志数据，以解决科学社会研究和中国社会经济转型文献中的几个后殖民辩论。研究人员将专门调查中国的两个大城市：北京和上海，并试图展示当地的政治和心态如何能够显着塑造中国科学家在纳米技术的研究实践。该项目将研究他们的知识网络，特别是与海外华人科学家的知识网络，如何帮助他们克服语言障碍，获得有用的信息，并获得其他帮助，为越来越多的国际观众进行纳米技术研究。该项目还考察了海外和中国本地科学家之间的学术交流如何相互塑造彼此的研究实践。为了补充数据收集，学生还将采访美国和香港的少量科学家，并将从美国专业会议和会议的参与者观察中收集人种学数据，中国和香港。最后，学生将在研究之旅中参观中国图书馆的几个特殊收藏部门，进行文献分析。中国目前正在经历快速的社会经济转型。科学研究受益于该国电信和交通的快速发展，但对中国科学家的了解不多。此外，中国仍然存在巨大的国内差异，但我们不知道这种差异如何体现在中国的高科技发展中。由于纳米技术在全球的兴起将涉及中国，本项目的研究结果将有助于确定中国科学家面前的各种机会、限制和辩论。这一谅解将成为跨国比较的有用材料。该项目还将为后殖民科学研究提供新的视角。到目前为止，还没有一个研究用后殖民理论来考察中国的高技术发展。这项研究的研究结果将被用作大学和研究生课程的教材，特别是在科学的社会研究中。此外，这项研究的结果将传播给其他科学家、社会科学家以及公众。