Social, Economic, and Political Investigations into Transition Strategies and Institutional Trajectories in America's Rural Arctic

这个项目是对阿拉斯加农村的社会和经济转型过程、制度轨迹和“发展”意识形态的探索性民族志研究。有关社会和经济发展目的的各种公共（州，联邦）和私人（公司，非政府组织）干预策略的一般特征，成功和失败的分析和意见将从相关社会，经济和政治机构的知情和/或批判性定位的成员中推断出来，包括：州立法机关、劳工部、商务部、小企业管理局、阿拉斯加大学、德纳里委员会、第一阿拉斯加研究所、阿拉斯加原住民联合会、当地公司、石油公司、阿拉斯加总承包商、社会和经济研究所以及阿拉斯加国会代表团。这个项目既是探索性的，也是预备性的，旨在汇编一系列相互关联的模型：1)全州范围内的长期社会和经济进程；2)阿拉斯加机构的轨迹，特别是土著部落和公司；3)本州内社会和经济发展的意识形态拓扑。数据收集采用一种民族志元分析的形式，其中通过半结构化访谈得出社会，经济，政治和历史分析模型，包括正式和非正式的参与者，与他们的相互依存关系进行比较，然后作为一个整体进行分析。由此产生的关于阿拉斯加境内重要过程的综合模型将提供必要的知识基础，使有关阿拉斯加发展的更有针对性、更深入的研究建议得以制定。本研究产生的元分析模型不仅可以为未来的研究提供知识基础，还可以为当前农村社会学和经济变化与发展社会学领域的争论提供信息；农村领导人和社区成员肯定会发现，这项研究的最终成果既有助于他们了解他们所在州的社会和经济状况，也有助于围绕地方和区域政策的制定和实施进行辩论。

This project is an exploratory ethnographic study of social and economic transition processes, institutional trajectories, and ideologies of 'development' in and pertaining to rural Alaska. Analyses and opinions relating to the general characters, successes, and failures of the various public (State, Federal) and private (Corporate, NGO) intervention strategies for the purposes of social and economic development will be deduced from informed and/or critically-positioned members of relevant social, economic, and political institutions, including: State legislature, Dept of Labor, Dept of Commerce, Small Business Administration, University of Alaska, Denali Commission, First Alaskans Institute, Alaska Federation of Natives, Native Corporations, Oil Companies, Alaska General Contractors, Institute for Social and Economic Research, and the Alaska Congressional Delegation. This project is both exploratory and preparatory, seeking to compile a series of interconnected models of 1) long-term statewide social and economic processes 2) the trajectories of Alaskan institutions, particularly native tribes and corporations and 3) the topology of ideologies of social and economic development within the state. Data collection takes the form of a kind of ethnographic meta-analysis, wherein the models of social, economic, political, and historical analysis, both formal and informal, of actors are elicited through semi-structured interviews, compared with an eye to their interdependence, then analyzed as a whole. The resulting comprehensive models of significant processes within the state will provide the necessary foundations of knowledge which enable the formulation of more narrowly targeted, in-depth research proposals concerning development in Alaska. The meta-analytic models generated by this research will serve not only to provide the foundations of knowledge for future research and to inform current debates within the fields of rural sociology and the sociology of economic change and development; rural leaders and community members will surely find that the eventual final product of this research both contributes to their knowledge about social and economic conditions in their state and informs debates surrounding the formulation and implementation of local and regional policy.