"The Use of Technology and Science"

“技术和科学的运用”

• 批准号: 1057543
• 负责人: Ronald Kline
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-02-01 至 2013-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1057543&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Use; Technology; Science

Hurricane Katrina and the breaking of the levees brought national and international attention to Louisiana and the surrounding areas' infrastructure. This dissertation investigates the significance of technology and labor in the making of New Orleans, southern regional commodities, and infrastructure. The project focuses in particular on engineers' use of technology to manage laborers in undertaking the public works projects of New Orleans, including the construction of levees and waterways, railroads, and waterworks. Many of these laborers were enslaved men and women; this project brings their experiences to the forefront. This project is based on archival sources such as personal narratives, legislative, municipal, and penitentiary records. These sources situate technology and labor within the context of historical changes in the rationalization of work. The project contributes to technology studies by centering the experiences of men and women in slavery within the social and technological construction of public works to facilitate the production and distribution of commodities and urban infrastructure. Here, the use and experience of technologies literally produce a region. They also shape the practices and meanings of freedom, work, and identity. This dissertation transforms scholarship on technology users, showing how research findings change when conditions beyond markets and consumers are examined.

卡特里娜飓风和堤坝的破坏使路易斯安那州及其周边地区的基础设施受到了国内外的关注。本论文研究了技术和劳动力在新奥尔良，南部地区的商品和基础设施的制作的意义。该项目特别关注工程师使用技术来管理新奥尔良公共工程项目中的劳动力，包括堤坝和水道，铁路和自来水厂的建设。这些劳工中有许多是被奴役的男女;这个项目把他们的经历带到了最前沿。这个项目是基于档案来源，如个人的叙述，立法，市政和监狱记录。这些来源是在劳动合理化的历史变迁背景下对技术和劳动的重新认识。该项目通过在公共工程的社会和技术建设中集中研究奴隶制男女的经历，促进商品和城市基础设施的生产和分配，从而促进技术研究。在这里，技术的使用和经验实际上产生了一个地区。它们还塑造了自由、工作和身份的实践和意义。本论文改变了对技术用户的学术研究，展示了当研究超出市场和消费者的条件时，研究结果如何变化。