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

博士论文研究：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奋进。相反，保存和保护植物群、动物群和生态系统的决定来自于社会特定的价值体系。从历史上看，对自然世界的干预往往是殖民主义和帝国主义议程的一部分;特别是巴西长期以来一直在西方哲学中暗示“自然”。然而，这种浪漫的愿景并不公正地理解巴西人对自然的理解，保护自然，以及使之成为可能的现代科学技术。这项调查是围绕着拯救金狮绢毛猴（GLT）的努力而组织的，金狮绢毛猴是保护界罕见的成功故事之一的焦点，也是非凡和日常生活的有力象征。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，不将保护视为紧急状态，而是将其视为保护生命和传播社会正义的持续条件。 这个研究项目将解决土地权利之间的交叉点，社会正义的愿景，并在里约热内卢的低地沿海地区的巴西大西洋森林保护政治。方法包括深入的民族志工作的小型农业社区的边界GLT保护区，生活史的前成员的土地为基础的社会正义运动，参与观察金狮绢毛猴协会（AMLD）的科学家和教育工作者和档案工作的土地索赔和农业历史的区域。 研究人员制定了一项计划，向现场人员以及更广泛的科学界传播数据和结论。该计划依靠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部分，介绍项目的结果，并允许社区作出反应。 预计该项目的成果将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.