Doctoral Dissertation Research: Earthquake Anticipation in Istanbul

博士论文研究：伊斯坦布尔地震预测

• 批准号: 1123983
• 负责人: Brinkley Messick
• 金额: $ 1.01万
• 依托单位: Columbia 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: 2011-09-01 至 2013-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1123983&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Earthquake; Anticipation

Doctoral student Elizabeth Angell (Columbia University), supervised by Dr. Brinkley Messick, will investigate how the expectation of a major natural disaster affects human-landscape interactions. The research will be conducted through a case study of Istanbul, Turkey, a megacity located in an active fault zone with a history of devastating earthquakes. The research will examine the experience and effects of earthquake anticipation in Istanbul, both as a technopolitical project that seeks to mold landscapes, buildings, and bodies into a state of preparedness, and as an affective relationship to time and space generated through dwelling in a seismically active landscape.The researcher will conduct thirteen months of ethnographic research in Istanbul, employing participant-observation research and semi-structured interviews in both expert and non-expert settings, gathering published and archival documentary material, and surveying selected buildings and areas. The research will ask how earthquake risk is produced as an object of knowledge by experts like seismologists, engineers, and actuaries, but also through rumor, superstition, and religious faith; document how anticipation is translated into action; and explore how the social imagination of disaster affects everyday experiences of life in Istanbul's seismic cityscape. The research will expand the anthropological study of disaster by focusing specifically on anticipation and its generative effects, and contributing to theoretical conversations about anticipation, risk, and preparedness. The study of urban life in an earthquake zone foregrounds the co-constitution of people and landscape, by which is meant the role of different kinds of information and practices in shaping social perception and experience of place. The project will therefore integrate theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches from landscape archaeology and geography, exploring their potential for the interdisciplinary study of human-landscape interaction. Finally, the project will contribute specifically to the anthropology of contemporary Turkey by focusing attention on the topics of science, disaster, and the environment. Supporting this research also contributes to the education of a social scientist.

博士生伊丽莎白·安吉尔(哥伦比亚大学)将在布林克利·梅西克博士的指导下，研究对重大自然灾害的预期如何影响人与景观的互动。这项研究将通过土耳其伊斯坦布尔的一个案例进行，伊斯坦布尔是一个位于活动断裂带的特大城市，有毁灭性地震的历史。这项研究将考察伊斯坦布尔地震预测的经验和影响，这既是一个试图将景观、建筑和身体塑造成备战状态的技术政治项目，也是通过居住在地震活跃的景观中而产生的时间和空间的情感关系。研究人员将在伊斯坦布尔进行为期13个月的民族志研究，采用参与者观察研究和专家和非专家环境中的半结构访谈，收集出版和档案文件材料，并对选定的建筑和地区进行调查。这项研究将询问地震风险是如何作为地震学家、工程师和精算师等专家的知识对象产生的，也是通过谣言、迷信和宗教信仰产生的；记录预期如何转化为行动；并探索社会对灾难的想象如何影响伊斯坦布尔地震城市的日常生活体验。这项研究将通过专门关注预期及其产生的影响来扩展对灾害的人类学研究，并促进关于预期、风险和准备的理论对话。对地震灾区城市生活的研究突出了人与景观的共同构成，即不同类型的信息和实践在塑造社会对地方的感知和体验方面所起的作用。因此，该项目将整合景观考古学和地理学的理论观点和方法，探索它们在人与景观相互作用的跨学科研究中的潜力。最后，该项目将通过关注科学、灾难和环境等主题，为当代土耳其的人类学做出具体贡献。支持这项研究也有助于培养一名社会科学家。