Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Spatialization in the Atchafalaya Basin

博士论文研究：阿查法拉亚盆地的社会空间化

• 批准号: 1031377
• 负责人: Philip Steinberg
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Florida State 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: 2010-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1031377&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Social; Spatialization

Around the world, increasing private and public resources are being devoted to cultural and eco-tourism as a development strategy designed to generate revenues while preserving local environments and cultures. Marginalized regions have sought to balance development with preservation of their distinctiveness, all within a post-industrial economy that paradoxically values difference while facilitating homogenization. This research suggests that while negotiating these conflicting goals and values, both residents of a region and tourists from outside engage in complex performances of "social spatialization" whereby they give particular meanings to place. In Louisiana's Acadiana region attempts to preserve the region's culture and environment through cultural and eco-tourism have been accompanied by considerable political contestation. Though historically this region was socially and environmentally marginalized, the last forty years have seen a resurgence of ethnic recognition and a growing interest in protecting the local wetland environment. Today, the Atchafalaya River Basin is characterized in a variety of ways as a space of natural resources, wilderness, tourism and ethnic heritage. These imagined attributes of place are constructed through a melding of representations about a place and subjective experiences in a place. In order to assess these conjectures, the research will compare qualitative findings from three major sources: literature and popular media; public scoping and interviews; and the experience of a variety of swamp tours. The study will give insight into how Cajun ethnicity is negotiated in the swamp for visitors and how this notion of the Atchafalaya compares to local and representational knowledges. Results will inform contribute to the literature that investigates the increased prominence of place-marketing as an economic development strategy in historically marginalized regions. This study also hopes to reinvigorate interest in Cajun culture so that researchers can better address issues such as language loss, disinvestment, and cultural commodification in the region. Analysis will reveal the ways in which individuals involved in tourism construct and articulate the place myths that undergird this economy. The findings will inform guides, planners, and anyone interested in environmental and cultural preservation in Acadiana or elsewhere. The award will enable a promising student to improve his dissertation research and to establish a strong independent research career.

在世界各地，越来越多的私人和公共资源正用于文化和生态旅游，作为一项发展战略，旨在创造收入，同时保护当地环境和文化。边缘化地区一直在寻求发展与保持其独特性之间的平衡，所有这些都是在后工业经济中进行的，这种经济在促进同质化的同时却矛盾地重视差异。 这项研究表明，在谈判这些相互冲突的目标和价值观，一个地区的居民和游客从外面从事复杂的性能的“社会空间化”，他们赋予特定的意义的地方。在路易斯安那州的阿斯塔纳地区，试图通过文化和生态旅游来保护该地区的文化和环境的努力伴随着相当大的政治支持。虽然历史上这个地区在社会和环境上被边缘化，但在过去的四十年里，种族认同的复苏和对保护当地湿地环境的兴趣日益浓厚。今天，Atchafalaya河流域以各种方式作为自然资源，荒野，旅游和民族遗产的空间。这些想象中的场所属性是通过对场所的表征和对场所的主观体验的融合而构建的。为了评估这些成果，研究将比较三个主要来源的定性结果：文学和大众媒体;公众范围和采访;以及各种沼泽图尔斯之旅的经验。这项研究将深入了解卡津民族是如何在沼泽中为游客进行谈判的，以及阿查法拉亚的概念与当地和代表性知识的比较。研究结果将有助于文献，调查日益突出的地方营销作为一种经济发展战略，在历史上被边缘化的地区。这项研究还希望重振对Cajun文化的兴趣，以便研究人员能够更好地解决该地区的语言损失，撤资和文化商品化等问题。分析将揭示参与旅游业的个人如何构建和阐明支撑这一经济的地方神话。调查结果将为导游、规划者以及任何对阿卡迪亚纳或其他地方的环境和文化保护感兴趣的人提供信息。该奖项将使一个有前途的学生，以提高他的论文研究，并建立一个强大的独立的研究生涯。