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

对美国北极乡村转型战略和制度轨迹的社会、经济和政治调查

• 批准号: 0639862
• 负责人: Gary Green
• 金额: --
• 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: 2006-09-15 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0639862&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Social; Economic; Political; Investigations; into

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.

该项目是对阿拉斯加农村地区的社会和经济转型过程、制度轨迹以及“发展”意识形态的探索性民族志研究。分析和意见有关的一般性质，成功，和失败的各种公众（州、联邦）和私营（公司、非政府组织）为社会和经济发展目的采取的干预战略将从相关社会、经济和政治机构的知情和/或处于关键地位的成员中推断出来，这些机构包括：州立法机构、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、阿拉斯加土著人联合会、土著公司、石油公司、阿拉斯加总承包商、社会经济研究所和阿拉斯加国会代表团。该项目既是探索性的，也是准备性的，旨在汇编一系列相互关联的模型：1）长期的全州社会和经济进程; 2）阿拉斯加机构的轨迹，特别是土著部落和公司; 3）该州社会和经济发展的意识形态拓扑结构。数据收集采取了一种人种志元分析的形式，其中的社会，经济，政治和历史分析的模型，正式和非正式的，演员是通过半结构化的采访，比较，着眼于他们的相互依存关系，然后作为一个整体进行分析。由此产生的全面模型的重要过程中的状态将提供必要的知识基础，使制定更有针对性的，深入的研究建议，在阿拉斯加的发展。本研究所产生的元分析模型不仅将为未来的研究提供知识基础，并为农村社会学和经济变革与发展社会学领域内的当前辩论提供信息;农村领导人和社区成员肯定会发现，这项研究的最终成果不仅有助于他们了解他们所在州的社会和经济状况，而且还为辩论提供了信息围绕地方和区域政策的制定和实施。