International Research Fellowship Program: Exposing the All Powerful Development Machine: The Divergence of British and American Environmental Foreign Aid

国际研究奖学金项目：揭露万能的发展机器：英美环境对外援助的分歧

• 批准号: 0701266
• 负责人: Catherine Corson
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Corson, Catherine A
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2010-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0701266&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Research; Fellowship; Program; Exposing

0701266CorsonThe International Research Fellowship Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct nine to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad.This award will support a twenty-four-month research fellowship by Dr. Catherine A. Corson to work with Dr. James R. Fairhead at the University of Sussex and with Dr. William M. Adams at the University of Cambridge in the UK.This post-doctoral research compares the U.S. Agency for International Development's environmental agenda with that of the British Department for International Development. Specifically, it analyzes how the different political, bureaucratic and historically-grounded ideological approaches of these agencies have produced different strategies to integrate environment into the development agenda. It then explores how the agencies' positions within their respective governments, their relationships with environmental groups and their historical relationships with sub-Saharan Africa have produced dramatically different discourses and associated material practices around the production of an "environmentally sustainable development" agenda. The research addresses a lacuna in political ecology and post-development literature and contributes to an expanding field around the ethnography of development institutions. In so doing, it moves beyond traditional development critiques of project outcomes, to focus on the complex policy process. It challenges many prevailing notions of bureaucracies by arguing that understanding the bureaucracy necessitates "unbounding" it to reveal how ideas develop, travel and articulate with bureaucratic practice at specific points in time and space in and among the "all-powerful development institutions." In this way, it shows the limits and fragilities within the bureaucratic "black box" and reveals sites of contestation, weakness and openings for maneuver. In exploring the mutual constitution of American and British foreign aid, this research will contribute to a greater understanding of the transnational linkages that produce the global development and conservation agenda. Ultimately, the research aims to provide a politically-enabling understanding of how development ideas are created and translated throughout the policy process, what influences this trajectory and what choices and constraints policy-makers face both in the United States and Britain.

[07:12 . 66]国际研究奖学金计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行9至24个月的研究。该计划的奖励为联合研究提供了机会，并利用独特或互补的设施、专业知识和国外的实验条件。该奖项将支持Catherine a . Corson博士与苏塞克斯大学的James R. Fairhead博士和英国剑桥大学的William M. Adams博士进行为期24个月的研究。这项博士后研究比较了美国国际开发署和英国国际发展部的环境议程。具体来说，它分析了这些机构不同的政治、官僚和基于历史的意识形态方法如何产生了将环境纳入发展议程的不同战略。然后探讨了这些机构在各自政府中的地位、它们与环保组织的关系以及它们与撒哈拉以南非洲的历史关系如何在“环境可持续发展”议程的制定过程中产生了截然不同的话语和相关的材料实践。这项研究解决了政治生态学和发展后文献的空白，并有助于扩大发展机构民族志的领域。在这样做的过程中，它超越了对项目结果的传统发展批评，将重点放在复杂的政策过程上。它挑战了许多流行的官僚主义观念，认为理解官僚主义必须“解开”它，以揭示思想是如何在特定的时间和空间点上，在“全能的发展机构”内部和之间，与官僚主义实践一起发展、传播和表达的。通过这种方式，它展示了官僚主义“黑盒子”中的局限性和脆弱性，揭示了争论的场所、弱点和可供操纵的空间。在探索美国和英国对外援助的相互构成时，这项研究将有助于更好地理解产生全球发展和保护议程的跨国联系。最终，这项研究的目的是提供一种政治上可行的理解，即发展理念是如何在整个政策过程中产生和转化的，是什么影响了这一轨迹，以及美国和英国的政策制定者面临哪些选择和限制。