Doctoral Dissertation Research in Science and Technology Studies

科学技术研究博士论文研究

• 批准号: 1058330
• 负责人: Patrick Carroll
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 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: 2011-01-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1058330&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Science; Technology

This dissertation research examines techno-scientific knowledge and politics in Bolivia. It contends that a specific drug is constituted as an object, through concrete practices in the realms of politics and techno-science, will greatly influence the contemporary project of state formation in Bolivia. Intellectual Merit:The aim of this research is an ethnographic case study with the following objectives. First, examine how the interplay between techno-science, politics, and the physical properties of the salmuera shape the material and symbolic construction of lithium and the development of a lithium industry. Second, detail how the development of this industry in Bolivia intersects with the form and direction of the allegedly post-neoliberal, post-socialist, "plurinational" political project underway there. As such, the research examines the practices of engineers guiding a nascent lithium industry to understand the potential of those practices to intersect with controversies around the conceptual boundaries of the "plurinational" state. It examines how technological and scientific practices intersect with visions of what such a state is and should be.Broader Impacts:As the possibility of transitioning to a "lithium economy" becomes more likely, peripheral states such as Bolivia will find themselves crucially positioned geopolitically. This research promises broader significance in examining the role that new strategic resources, particularly those whose importance is tightly linked to global dynamics of an emerging ?green-technology? sector, play in the state formations of peripheral countries charged with the production of such resources. The research promises broader insights into emerging dynamics?particularly in Latin America?that are challenging traditional conceptions of development, modernization, the management and use of natural resources, and models of state formation, as well as the relation of science and technology to the actual practices of building alternatives to such traditional conceptions.

本论文研究探讨技术科学知识和政治在玻利维亚。它认为，通过政治和技术科学领域的具体做法，一种特定的毒品被构成为一种物品，将极大地影响玻利维亚当代国家形成的项目。知识价值：本研究的目的是一个民族志的个案研究，具有以下目标。首先，研究技术科学，政治和萨尔穆埃拉的物理特性之间的相互作用如何塑造锂的材料和象征性结构以及锂产业的发展。第二，详细说明玻利维亚这一行业的发展如何与那里正在进行的所谓后新自由主义、后社会主义、“多民族”政治项目的形式和方向相交。因此，该研究考察了指导新兴锂产业的工程师的实践，以了解这些实践与围绕“多民族”国家概念边界的争议交叉的潜力。更广泛的影响：随着向“锂经济”转型的可能性变得更大，玻利维亚等外围国家将发现自己在地缘政治上处于关键地位。这项研究对于研究新战略资源的作用具有更广泛的意义，特别是那些重要性与新兴国家的全球动态密切相关的资源。绿色技术？在这一部门，在负责生产这种资源的外围国家的国家结构中发挥作用。这项研究有望对新兴动态有更广泛的了解？特别是在拉丁美洲？这些挑战包括传统的发展、现代化、自然资源管理和利用概念、国家形成模式以及科学和技术与建立替代这些传统概念的实际做法之间的关系。