Doctoral Dissertation Research: Culture, Identity, and Politics

SES-0727183文森特J. Roscigno朱莉娅米勒Cantzler的俄亥俄州州立大学本研究将审查和比较的历史和当代的过程中，土著捕鱼权已在美国，澳大利亚和新西兰，其中三个独特的模式已经出现并持续谈判。这项研究有两个主要目的。第一个是强调社会机制，通过这些机制，族裔身份和文化被战略性地运用，以抵制殖民同化的力量。 第二，揭示基于身份的运动能够影响主导社会结构变化的更广泛进程。 这一比较历史研究将通过使用事件结构分析（ESA）来促进。 在ETHNO软件包的帮助下，将构建时间敏感的因果叙述，详细说明产生三种不同捕捞权模式的具体和抽象的理论驱动过程。 正如最近的社会运动研究所表明的那样，ESA允许对事件的时间性和偶然性进行更深入，更系统的分析，而不是仅仅采用叙事的历史分析。 访谈和档案数据将在以下地方的法律图书馆、土著法律中心和土著渔业委员会收集：惠灵顿和奥克兰（新西兰）、悉尼和新南威尔士州堪培拉（澳大利亚）、昆士兰州凯恩斯（澳大利亚）、科罗拉多州博尔德、波特兰、俄勒冈州和华盛顿州奥林匹亚。 该项目将以几种方式促进社会学知识。首先，这些分析将阐明关于种族的法律的建构以及种族和族裔类别和意义系统的性质的更一般的社会学论述。 第二，研究提供了一个独特的机会，通过文化意义系统既影响行动，又实质性地影响现有的权力结构的动态过程。 最后，本研究将填补社会运动文献中的一个空白，具体地将政治过程的概念与看似两分法的“集体身份”和“文化”概念联系起来。“这项研究将对目前卷入控制自然和文化资源斗争的土著和国家行为者产生实地政策影响。 通过揭示不断变化的权力动态和结构性制约因素，塑造土著国家在这三个国家的背景下的关系，本研究将揭示上下文的机会和障碍，为政策层面的冲突解决土著渔业权，以及其他主权为基础的土著人民的索赔。 希望这一信息将有助于消除阻碍就这些持续争端达成相互满意的解决办法的障碍。

SES-0727183Vincent J. Roscigno Julia Miller Cantzler The Ohio State UniversityThis study will examine and compare the historical and contemporary processes through which aboriginal fishing rights have been negotiated in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, where three unique patterns have emerged and persist. This study has two primary aims. The first is to highlight the social mechanisms through which ethnic identity and culture are strategically wielded to resist forces of colonial assimilation. The second is to reveal the broader processes through which identity-based movements can affect structural changes in the dominant society. This comparative historical study will be facilitated by the use of event structure analysis (ESA). With the assistance of the ETHNO software package, temporally sensitive causal narratives will be constructed, which will detail both the specific as well as the abstract and theoretically-driven processes that produced the three divergent patterns of fishing rights. As demonstrated in recent studies of social movements, ESA permits a deeper, more systematic analysis of the temporality and contingency of events than is typical for historical analyses employing narrative alone. Interview and archival data will be collected at law libraries, indigenous law centers and indigenous fisheries commissions in Wellington and Auckland (New Zealand), Sydney and Canberra, NSW (Australia), Cairns, Queensland (Australia), Boulder, Colorado, Portland, Oregon and Olympia, Washington. This project will advance sociological knowledge in several ways. First, the analyses will illuminate more general sociological discourses on the legal construction of race and the nature of racial and ethnic categories and meaning-systems. Second, the research provides a unique opportunity to expose the dynamic processes through which cultural meaning-systems both affect action and materially impact existing power structures. Finally, the study will fill a void in the social movement literature by specifically linking conceptions of political process with seemingly dichotomous notions of "collective identity" and "culture." This study will have on-the-ground, policy implications for indigenous and state actors currently embroiled in struggles for control over natural and cultural resources. By exposing the evolving power dynamics and structural constraints that shape indigenous-state relations in these three national contexts, this study will reveal the contextual opportunities and obstacles for policy-level resolutions of conflicts over indigenous fishing rights, as well as other sovereignty-based claims of aboriginal people. It is hoped that this information will help dismantle the barriers that inhibit the achievement of mutually satisfactory resolutions of these ongoing disputes.