Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Decentralizing Democracy: Urban Participation in Chavez's Venezuela

博士论文改进补助金：权力下放民主：查韦斯领导下的委内瑞拉的城市参与

• 批准号: 0921718
• 负责人: Kay Warren
• 金额: $ 1.26万
• 依托单位: Brown 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: 2009-09-01 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0921718&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Decentralizing

Doctoral student Kendra Fehrer Ponniah (Brown University), supervised by Dr. Kay B. Warren, will undertake ethnographic research on citizen engagement in participatory community development programs. The researcher aims to understand how these programs shape the way people, particularly poor people, think about politics, citizenship, and the state.This researcher will conduct 12 months of field research focused on a program meant to foster grassroots participation in neighborhood development decisions in a low-income urban neighborhood in central Venezuela. The researcher will use the results of social history interviews, participant observation, in-depth interviews with participants and public officials, document analysis, and comparative case study to explore (1) how community actors frame their demands for material and cultural resources; (2) how community actors' demands intersect with local and national government priorities; (3) how these new venues for participation influence community access to resources; and (4) how these initiatives shape who gets to "count" as a citizen in Venezuela.This research is important because it will contribute insight into the relationship between decentralization, democratic participation, and development by adding an ethnographic study of practices of civic participation. This research will contribute to academic and policy discussions of civic participation in public programs, as well as understandings of how conceptions of citizenship are produced in different social, political, and historic contexts. Funding this research also supports the education of a social scientist.

博士生Kendra Fehrer Ponniah（布朗大学），在Kay B. Warren博士的指导下，将对参与式社区发展项目中的公民参与进行民族志研究。研究人员旨在了解这些项目如何塑造人们，尤其是穷人，对政治、公民身份和国家的看法。该研究员将进行为期12个月的实地研究，重点是在委内瑞拉中部一个低收入城市社区开展一个旨在促进基层参与社区发展决策的项目。研究人员将利用社会历史访谈、参与者观察、对参与者和政府官员的深度访谈、文献分析和比较案例研究的结果来探索：(1)社区参与者如何构建他们对物质和文化资源的需求；(2)社区行动者的需求如何与地方和国家政府的优先事项相交叉；(3)这些新的参与场所如何影响社区对资源的获取；(4)这些倡议如何影响谁将成为委内瑞拉的“公民”。这项研究很重要，因为它将通过增加对公民参与实践的民族志研究，有助于深入了解权力下放、民主参与和发展之间的关系。这项研究将有助于公共项目中公民参与的学术和政策讨论，以及对公民概念如何在不同社会、政治和历史背景下产生的理解。资助这项研究也支持了社会科学家的教育。