Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Politics of Land and Conservation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

博士论文研究：巴西巴西里约热内卢的土地和保护政治摘要保护从来都不是一项无辜的努力。相反，保存和保护动植物和生态系统的决定来自社会特定的评估系统。从历史上看，对自然世界的干预经常作为殖民和帝国议程的一部分发生；在西方哲学中，巴西长期以来一直是“自然”的代名词。然而，这种浪漫的愿景与巴西人对自然的理解、对自然的保护以及使之成为可能的现代科学技术并不相符。这次调查是围绕着拯救金狮绢毛猴（GLT）的努力而组织的，这是保护中罕见的成功故事之一，也是非凡和日常的有力象征。该项目旨在了解保护专业人员、国家和非政府组织如何制定综合议程，不再将保护视为一种紧急状态，而是将其视为保护生命和宣扬社会正义的持续条件。本研究项目将探讨巴西巴西大西洋森林在巴西里约热内卢州低地沿海地区的土地权利、社会正义愿景和保护政治之间的交集。方法包括在GLT保护区周边的小型农业社区进行深入的民族志研究，对土地社会正义运动前成员的生活史进行研究，对金狮绢毛猴协会（AMLD）的科学家和教育工作者进行参与观察，以及对该地区的土地要求和农业历史进行档案工作。这名科学家制定了一项计划，向现场的人们以及更广泛的科学界传播数据和结论。该计划依赖于利用巴西现有的教育机构和社区广播电台，以及巴西和全世界更标准的科学专业人员网络。为了便于小型农业社区使用，研究人员将与社区经营的广播电台合作，制作一个简短的葡萄牙语片段，描述项目的成果，并允许社区作出反应。该项目的结果有望为世界各地的社会和政治进程提供信息。

Doctoral Dissertation Research: The politics of land and conservation in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilAbstract Conservation has never been an innocent endeavor. Rather, the decision to preserve and protect flora, fauna, and ecosystems emerges from socially specific systems of valuation. Historically, intervention into the natural world has occurred often as part of colonial and imperial agendas; Brazil in particular has long connoted "the natural" in Western philosophy. Yet this romantic vision does not do justice to Brazilian understandings of nature, its protection, and the modern scientific techniques that make this possible. This investigation is organized around the efforts to save the Golden Lion Tamarin (GLT), which is the focus of one of conservation's rare success stories and is also a potent symbol of both the extraordinary and the everyday. The project aims to understand how conservation professionals, states and NGOs can develop integrated agendas that treat conservation not as a state of emergency but as a continuing condition for the safeguarding of life and the promulgation of social justice. This research project will address the intersection between land rights, visions of social justice, and conservation politics in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest in the State of Rio de Janeiro's lowland coastal region. Methods include in-depth ethnographic work among small agricultural communities that border the GLT reserve, life histories of former members of land-based social justice movements, participant observation among the scientists and educators of the Golden Lion Tamarin Association (AMLD) and archival work on land claims and agricultural history in the region. The researcher has developed a plan to disseminate data and conclusions with people at the field site as well as to a wider scientific community. This plan relies on use of existing educational institutions and community radio stations in Brazil as well as more standard networks of scientific professionals in Brazil and throughout the world. Ii order to be accessible to small farming communities, the researcher will work with a community-run radio station to develop a brief, Portuguese language segment descrbing results of the project, as well as allowing community respone. The project's results are expected to inform social and political processes around the world.