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

公民和组织在新奥尔良历史街区的知识创造、建筑实践和归还方面的动态

• 批准号: 0821353
• 负责人: Barbara Allen
• 金额: $ 12.35万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0821353&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dynamics; Citizens; Organizations; Knowledge; Making

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.

该项目由科学、技术与社会 (STS) 计划资助，通过对卡特里娜飓风过后的新奥尔良进行案例研究，解决了更广泛的研究问题，即人类和自然灾害后社区如何成功或不成功地重建。 该项目侧重于各种互动群体（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恢复的一些因素。 STS 中的科学理论和分析工具的公众理解用于了解公民和非专业人士对专家知识的形成、混合和使用的参与。 新科学政治社会学理论用于深入了解制度知识生产，例如规则、惯例、文化、意义和资源分配的融合如何影响知识生产。 该研究项目对这些 STS 专业做出了贡献，并提供了有关灾后重建的信息。该项目使用混合方法来研究三个正在进行重建的社区。 更广泛的影响在于制定可能与其他处理灾后重建的社区相关的因果解释。 关于有效和最低效的组织、机构和公民动态的知识对于政策制定者、组织领导者和社区活动家等都是有用的。 该项目对于未来关于灾害和其他人类住区破坏后的外行和专家知识和实践的 STS 研究具有重要意义。 由于美国和国外的灾后重建都需要非政府组织、政府机构和公民本身的资金、专业知识和/或劳动力，因此了解如何建立有效的关系非常重要。