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

通过卡特里娜飓风后新奥尔良的案例研究，该项目由科学、技术和社会(STS)计划资助，解决了更广泛的研究问题，即社区如何在人类和自然灾害后成功或失败地重建。该项目侧重于各种相互作用的群体--房主、邻里团体、非政府组织、地方政府和联邦机构--的认识层面，以确定影响成功遣返和恢复的一些因素。公众对科学理论的理解和STS中的分析工具被用来理解公民和非专业人员参与专业知识的形成、杂交和使用。新政治社会学的科学理论被用来提供对制度性知识生产的洞察，例如规则、例行公事、文化、意义和资源分布的融合如何影响知识生产。这项研究项目致力于这些STS专业，并提供有关灾后重建的信息。该项目使用混合方法研究正在进行重建工作的三个社区。更广泛的影响在于制定可能与处理灾后重建问题的其他社区相关的因果解释。有效和最不有效的组织、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。该项目对今后灾害和其他人类住区破坏后的非专业和专家知识和做法的STS研究具有重要意义。由于在美国和国外的灾后重建包括资金、专业知识和/或来自非政府组织、政府机构和公民本身的劳动力，因此了解有效的关系是如何构成的非常重要。

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.