Dynamics of Citizens and Organizations in Knowledge Making, Building Practices, and Repatriation of New Orleans' Historic Neighborhoods

该项目由美国科学、技术与学会（STS）项目资助，通过对卡特里娜飓风后的新奥尔良进行案例研究，探讨了一个更广泛的研究问题，即在人类和自然灾害之后，社区如何成功或失败地重建。该项目侧重于各种相互作用群体（房主、社区团体、非政府组织、地方政府和联邦机构）的认知维度，以确定影响成功遣返和修复的一些因素。公众对科学理论和STS分析工具的理解被用来理解公民和非专业人员在专家知识的形成、融合和使用中的参与。新政治科学社会学理论被用来提供对制度知识生产的洞察，如规则、惯例、文化、意义和资源分配的趋同如何影响知识制造。这项研究项目有助于这些STS专业，并提供灾后重建的信息。该项目采用混合方法研究了三个正在进行重建工作的社区。更广泛的影响在于发展可能与其他社区处理灾后重建相关的因果解释。有效的和最不有效的组织、机构和公民动态的知识对政策制定者、组织领导人和社区活动家都很有用。该项目对未来STS在灾害和其他人类住区破坏后的非专业知识和实践方面的研究具有重要意义。由于灾后重建，无论是在美国还是在国外，都需要非政府组织、政府机构和公民自己的资金、专业知识和/或劳动力，因此了解如何建立有效的关系是很重要的。

Through a case study of post-Katrina New Orleans, this project funded by the Science, Technology & Society (STS) Program, addresses the broader research question of how communities successfully or unsuccessfully rebuild after human and natural disasters. The project focuses on the epistemic dimension of various interacting groups -- homeowners, neighborhood groups, non-governmental organizations, local governments, and federal agencies to identify some of the factors that influence successful repatriation and restoration. Public understanding of science theory and analytical tools in STS are used to understand the participation of citizens and lay-people in the formation, hybridization, and use of expert knowledge. New political sociology of science theory is used to provide insight into institutional knowledge production such as how the convergence of rules, routines, cultures, meanings, and resource distributions influences knowledge making. This research project contributes to these STS specialties as well as providing information about rebuilding after disaster.The project uses mixed methods to study three neighborhoods undergoing rebuilding efforts. The broader impacts lie in the development of causal explanations potentially relevant to other communities dealing with rebuilding after a disaster. The knowledge of effective and least effective organizational, agency, and citizens dynamics is useful for policymakers, organizational leaders, and community activists alike. The project is meaningful for future STS research on lay and expert knowledge and practices in the aftermath of disasters and other human settlement disruptions. Because rebuilding after disasters, both in the U.S. and abroad, includes funding, expertise, and/or labor from a combination of NGOs, government agencies, and the citizens themselves, it is important to understand how effective relationships are constituted.