Doctoral Dissertation Improvment Grant: Gendered Responses to Development and Climate Change: Women and the Ganges River

博士论文改进补助金：对发展和气候变化的性别反应：妇女和恒河

• 批准号: 0851193
• 负责人: Dorothy Holland
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-02-15 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0851193&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvment; Grant; Gendered

Doctoral student Georgina Drew, with the guidance of Dr. Dorothy Holland, will undertake research on local interpretations of, and gendered socio-cultural responses to, ecological change in water resources. Her investigation will be conducted in the Indian Himalayans along the primary tributary of the Ganges River. Using a comparative ethnographic approach at different sites, from river's melting glacial source to the district capital of Uttarkashi, she will investigate local responses to development and climate change. She will pay particular attention to women's activities, discourses, and mobilization efforts, and their relation to the work of environmental initiatives, such as those coordinated by social movements and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Analyses will assess the extent of, and the potential for, women's inclusion in debates about natural resource management in a case where the future of a resource of great symbolic, religious, and economic importance is in question. The researcher will employ a wide range of social scientific methods. These include semi-structured interviews, surveys, focus groups, observation of daily practice, event-based participant observation, and elicitation of life histories. Multi-media documentation will incorporate audio, photo, and video recording. Using the method of photo voice, disposable cameras will be distributed to women so that they can collaboratively document their perspectives on the river as well as their experiences in social movement and NGO processes. The research has both theoretical and practical significance. Through the exploration of women's resource-related knowledge and concerns, it will broaden interscalar analysese of how global processes are experienced at the local level. The focus on women's physical and discursive mobilization efforts can also be employed to strengthen gender inclusion in environmental initiatives. Research insights will have relevance for policy formation in the Himalayas and elsewhere throughout the world where contestations over changing water resource availability are emerging. The research also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.

博士生乔治娜·德鲁在多萝西·霍兰德博士的指导下，将对水资源生态变化的当地解释和性别社会文化反应进行研究。她的调查将在印度喜马拉雅山脉沿着恒河的主要支流进行。从河流融化的冰川源头到乌塔尔卡希地区首府，她将在不同地点使用比较民族志方法，调查当地对发展和气候变化的反应。她将特别注意妇女的活动、话语和动员工作，以及它们与环境倡议工作的关系，例如由社会运动和非政府组织协调的环境倡议工作。分析将评估在一种具有巨大象征意义、宗教和经济重要性的资源的未来受到质疑的情况下，妇女参与关于自然资源管理的辩论的程度和潜力。研究人员将采用广泛的社会科学方法。这些包括半结构化访谈，调查，焦点小组，观察日常实践，基于事件的参与者观察，以及生活史的启发。多媒体文件将包括音频、照片和视频记录。利用照片声音的方法，将一次性相机分发给妇女，使她们能够合作记录她们对河流的看法以及她们在社会运动和非政府组织进程中的经验。本研究具有一定的理论意义和现实意义。通过探讨妇女与资源有关的知识和关切，它将扩大对地方一级如何经历全球进程的跨等级分析。注重妇女的实际动员和话语动员也可用于加强环境举措中的性别包容。在喜马拉雅山和世界其他地方，对水资源供应变化的认识正在出现，研究的见解将对政策的制定具有相关性。这项研究也将有助于社会科学家的教育。