Doctoral Dissertation Research: Emerging Futures: The Politics of Cultural Production Among Indigenous Kanak Youth

博士论文研究：新兴未来：土著卡纳克青年文化生产的政治

• 批准号: 0961956
• 负责人: Fred Myers
• 金额: $ 1.43万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-15 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0961956&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Emerging; Futures

New York University doctoral student, Tate LeFevre, supervised by Dr. Fred Myers, will undertake research on the dynamic processes that produce new indigenous citizen identities when former colonies become independent. This research will center primarily on the networks of cultural production that evolve outside of centralized institutional frameworks as new generations of activists configure, contest, and share what it means to be indigenous. Understanding these processes from the ground up is critical to understanding the evolving institutions and problems of the modern nation state.The research will be carried out in the context of the intensified political stakes generated by an upcoming referendum on New Caledonia's independence from France. The researcher will undertake 12 months of anthropological field research in Nouméa, the country's capital. She will employ a mixed-methods strategy for data collection, including: participant observation, video and audio recording, collection and analysis of life stories, conversational analysis, archival research, and social network analysis.By analyzing how indigenous identities are formulated and expressed, this research will contribute to understanding "indigeneity" as an increasingly important strategy of self-representation and resistance around the world. This will contribute to social scientific theory of how independent modern nations develop in an increasingly integrated world. It also will help to inform policies for international relations with post-colonial countries. Funding this research supports the training of a social scientist.

纽约大学博士生Tate LeFevre在Fred Myers博士的指导下，将研究前殖民地独立后产生新的土著公民身份的动态过程。这项研究将主要集中在文化生产的网络，随着新一代活动家的配置，竞争和分享成为土著意味着什么，这些网络在集中的制度框架之外发展。了解这些进程是至关重要的，从地面上了解不断演变的机构和现代民族国家的问题，研究将进行的背景下，加剧的政治利害关系所产生的一个即将举行的公民投票新喀里多尼亚从法国独立。该研究员将在该国首都努美阿进行为期12个月的人类学实地研究。她将采用参与式观察、录像和录音、生活故事的收集和分析、对话分析、档案研究和社会网络分析等混合方法进行数据收集，通过分析土著身份的形成和表达，有助于理解“土著”作为世界各地日益重要的自我表达和抵抗策略。这将有助于社会科学理论如何独立的现代国家发展在一个日益一体化的世界。它还将有助于为与后殖民国家的国际关系政策提供信息。资助这项研究支持社会科学家的培训。