DDIG: Fluid Boundaries: Property, Conservation, and the Global in Andros Island, the Bahamas

DDIG：流动边界：巴哈马安德罗斯岛的财产、保护和全球

• 批准号: 0817221
• 负责人: Bonnie McCay
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-15 至 2010-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0817221&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DDIG; Fluid; Boundaries; Property; Conservation

Graduate student Sarah Wise, supervised by Dr. Bonnie McCay, will examine how people negotiate ownership of contested space in a region undergoing change from a regionally-managed commons to an internationally-governed protected area. In 2006, The Nature Conservancy, in partnership with other conservation organizations, proposed the West Side National Park (WSNP) on Andros Island, The Bahamas, changing the scale of institutional management from local control to national and international governance. Using language as an analytical lens, this research will explore how residents understand, practice, and talk about ownership of and access to sea resources. There are three central objectives: 1) to examine the emergence of institutions, including behavioral and legal systems of governance, 2) to document how people engage with and talk about the area destined for protection in light of changing legal and social conditions, and 3) to investigate how people use language to negotiate ideas of ownership. During 12 months of field research, the researcher will employ a mixed-methods ethnographic approach to document existing and emerging marine tenure systems through archival research, participant observation, interviews, and participatory mapping. Focusing on scientists, Androsian residents, conservationists, and government officials, the researcher will create a sampling frame of 95 individuals. Semi-structured interviews will be used to document resource use, access and ownership patterns, decision-making processes, and the perceptions of the WSNP. This project will extend social science scholarship on protected area conservation and contribute to ongoing debates about the social effects of environmental decision-making on the very people relying on these resources. Results of this research will be applicable to coastal communities globally, and will facilitate dialogue and greater understanding of the relationships between social and environmental systems concerning important marine resources.

研究生莎拉·怀斯（Sarah Wise）将在邦尼·麦凯博士（Dr. Bonnie McCay）的指导下，研究人们如何在一个正在从区域管理的公地转变为国际管理的保护区的地区谈判有争议空间的所有权。2006年，大自然保护协会与其他保护组织合作，提议在巴哈马安德罗斯岛建立西侧国家公园（West Side National Park， WSNP），将机构管理的规模从地方控制转变为国家和国际治理。本研究将以语言为分析视角，探讨居民如何理解、实践和谈论海洋资源的所有权和使用权。有三个中心目标：1)检查制度的出现，包括治理的行为和法律制度；2)记录人们如何参与和谈论根据不断变化的法律和社会条件注定要保护的区域；3)调查人们如何使用语言来协商所有权的想法。在12个月的实地研究期间，研究人员将采用混合方法的民族志方法，通过档案研究、参与性观察、访谈和参与性制图来记录现有和新兴的海洋权属制度。研究人员将以科学家、居民、环保人士和政府官员为重点，创建一个95人的抽样框架。半结构化访谈将用于记录资源使用、获取和所有权模式、决策过程以及对WSNP的看法。该项目将扩大保护区保护方面的社会科学研究，并促进正在进行的关于环境决策对依赖这些资源的人的社会影响的辩论。这项研究的结果将适用于全球沿海社区，并将促进对话和对有关重要海洋资源的社会和环境系统之间关系的更深入了解。