Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Competing Projects over the Social Landscape in Southern Bahia (Brazil)

研究生乔纳森·德沃尔在韦伯·基恩博士的指导下，将研究土地改革政策及其对社会经济平等的影响，其中有多个利益攸关方。这项研究将通过对巴西南部巴伊亚几个新的土地改革社区进行人种学研究来进行，在那里，没有土地的穷人、种植园主、环保主义者和旅游业工作者在规划社会和自然景观方面争夺首要地位。 要了解不同社会群体希望并努力实现什么样的世界，就需要关注影响这些不同群体活动的道德和审美规范、理想、价值观和未来方向，以及这些群体本身是如何构成和分类的。 因此，本研究的方法取向是民族志，需要长期参与和日常互动与当地人民。 研究设计还结合了半结构化访谈，社区调查，和改编版本的photovoice方法。 这项研究的结果将有助于学术界和决策者之间的辩论，他们关心如何确定最公平和有效的土地改革政策。它将有助于社会理论的国家政策和地方社会结构之间的关系。该研究还支持社会科学家的教育。

Graduate student Jonathan DeVore, under the direction of Dr. Webb Keane, will undertake research on land reform policies and their effects on socioeconomic equality in contexts where there are multiple stakeholders. The research will be carried out through an ethnographic study of several new land reform communities in southern Bahia, Brazil, where landless poor, plantation owners, environmentalists, and tourism workers vie for primacy in planning for the social and physical landscape. To understand what kind of worlds the different social groups hope for and strive to bring about requires attention to the range of ethical and aesthetic norms, ideals, values and future orientations that influence these different groups' activities, as well as to how the groups themselves are constituted and categorized. Therefore, the methodological orientation of this research is ethnographic, entailing long-term engagement and daily interactions with local people. The research design also incorporates semi-structured interviews, community surveys, and an adapted version of photovoice methodology. The results of this research will contribute to debates among academics and policy makers who are concerned with defining agrarian reform policies that will be most equitable and effective. It will contribute to social theory about the relationship between national policy and local social structure. The research also supports the education of a social scientist.