Urban Governmentalities in Local-State Relations with a Marginalized Population

这个研究项目扩大了对边缘化人口与地方国家实践形式之间关系的理解。从理论上讲，它的定位是扩大关于治理的地理研究的范围，它提供了以健康为导向的公民地理学的重点。该研究计划涉及1950年至1983年期间华盛顿州西雅图两个监管机构与新兴但边缘化的人口之间关系的数据收集和访谈。一个非概率，分层雪球样本将被用来识别和采访个人选择的研究。数据将使用一种有根据的理论方法进行分析，该方法确定监管国家试图管理被指定为有问题的人口的关键时刻。它还将决定个人对国家官僚机构这些强加行为的抵制。总的来说，该研究项目更加关注公共卫生和许可机构和政策。它还抓住了公民和国家机器相互联系的多种方式，包括公民和地方官僚之间的微观关系。该项目将为政策制定者和人权委员会提供关于国家机构与边缘群体关系历史的更全面的描述，并有可能确定在平等和自由问题上成功和失败的关键时刻。研究生将接受定性研究分析方面的培训，为他们提供在综合和发表结果方面进行合作的机会。

This research project expands understanding of the relations between a marginalized population and forms of local state practices. It is theoretically situated in such a way as to broaden the scope of geographic research on governmentality and it provides a health-oriented focus on geographies of citizenship. The research plan involves data collection and interviews on the relations between two regulatory bodies and an emergent, but marginalized, population in Seattle, Washington during the period from 1950 through 1983. A non-probability, stratified snowball sample will be used to identify and interview the individuals selected for the study. Data will be analyzed using a grounded theory approach that identifies key moments in time at which the regulatory state attempts to govern populations that are designated as problematic. It will also determine individuals' resistance to these imposed actions of the state bureaucracies. Overall, the research project offers greater attention towards public health and licensing agencies and policies. It also captures the multiplicity of ways that citizens and state apparatuses relate to one another, including the micro-scale relations between citizens and local bureaucrats. The project will provide policymakers and human rights commissions with a fuller account of the histories of state-agencies relations with marginalized groups, potentially identifying key moments of both success and failure with respect to questions of equality and freedom. Graduate students will be trained in qualitative research analysis, provide them with opportunities to collaborate in the synthesis and publication of results.