SGER: Conflicting Perspectives on Social and Political Dynamics in Bolivia

SGER：对玻利维亚社会和政治动态的相互矛盾的观点

• 批准号: 0900108
• 负责人: Mark Goodale
• 金额: $ 0.9万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 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 2010-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0900108&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Conflicting; Perspectives; Social; Political

Dr. Mark R. Goodale, of George Mason Univesity, will undertake short-term rapid response research on events surrounding the constitutional referendum in Bolivia, currently scheduled for January 2009. In August 2008, a recall vote set in motion a vote on a radical new national constitution. The researcher has developed an innovative hypothesis that the broader social conflict in Bolivia has its roots in a clash over two competing theories of the person, one dervied from the discourse of international human rights and the other asserts a notion of the person and society in which essential difference is seen as fundamental and is made the basis for state and social institutions.In order to test this hypothesis, the researcher will (1) conduct ethnographic interviews with those actively involved in the election; (2) perform observational analysis on the constitutional process before, during, and after the vote itself; and (3) perform a content analysis of various print and media sources in order to understand how public opinion is being influenced during this period of rapid social change in Bolivia.This brief project lays the groundwork for improving social scientific understanding of both social and political conflict in the post-Cold War period and the role that competing theories of the person play in these conflicts. The PI will forge institutional linkages with universities and NGOs in Bolivia that are working on the peaceful resolution of the social conflict. The project also supports the education of a graduate student from an underrepresented group who will assist the researcher in the field.

乔治梅森大学的马克·R·古德尔 (Mark R. Goodale) 博士将对玻利维亚立宪公投相关事件进行短期快速反应研究，公投目前定于 2009 年 1 月举行。2008 年 8 月，罢免投票启动了对激进的新国家宪法的投票。研究人员提出了一个创新的假设，即玻利维亚更广泛的社会冲突根源于两种相互竞争的人理论的冲突，一种源于国际人权话语，另一种则主张一种人与社会的概念，其中本质差异被视为根本性的，并成为国家和社会机构的基础。为了检验这一假设，研究人员将（1）对那些积极参与其中的人进行民族志访谈。 选举； (2) 对投票前、投票中和投票后的制宪过程进行观察分析； (3) 对各种印刷品和媒体来源进行内容分析，以了解在玻利维亚快速社会变革时期公众舆论是如何受到影响的。这个简短的项目为提高对冷战后时期社会和政治冲突的社会科学理解以及相互竞争的人理论在这些冲突中所发挥的作用奠定了基础。 PI 将与玻利维亚致力于和平解决社会冲突的大学和非政府组织建立机构联系。该项目还支持来自代表性不足群体的研究生的教育，他们将协助该领域的研究人员。