Far Eastern Borderlands: Informal Networks and Space at the Margins of the Russian State

远东边境：俄罗斯国家边缘的非正式网络和空间

• 批准号: 1124615
• 负责人: Tobias Holzlehner
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1124615&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Far; Eastern; Borderlands; Informal; Networks

In an increasingly globalized world, borderlands provide a very interesting point of investigation of the direction and pace of socio-economic change. This project is comparative ethnographic research of two post-Soviet border zones, Chukotka in the North East and Primore in the southeastern region of Russia. These two regions of the former Soviet Union are of particular interest because the main populations are ethnic minority peoples marginalized both socially and geographically by the majority social and political structure yet in the contemporary geopolitical situation, they occupy the borders with two economic-political super powers, China and the US. As part of his research, the PI will investigate such issues as commodity flow, global mobilities, border space, and informal economies and how these affect local social structures and cultural identities of the people that occupy this porous borderland landscape. Using multiple methodologies: participant observations, archival research, informal interviews and surveys and a Google map-based geo-visualization tool to facilitate an understanding of social pattern in physical space, the project will be able to analyze individual informal networks and community social networks, as well as spatially embedded economic practices, in both border zones in greater depth.

在日益全球化的世界中，边界地区为社会经济变革的方向和步伐提供了一个非常有趣的调查角度。该项目是对苏联解体后的两个边疆区--东北部的楚科塔和俄罗斯东南部的普里莫尔--进行的人种学比较研究。前苏联的这两个地区特别令人感兴趣，因为主要人口是在社会和地理上被多数社会和政治结构边缘化的少数民族，但在当代地缘政治形势下，他们与两个经济政治超级大国中国和美国接壤。作为他研究的一部分，PI将调查商品流动、全球流动性、边境空间和非正式经济等问题，以及这些问题如何影响居住在这片漏洞百出的边境地区的当地社会结构和人民的文化认同。该项目采用多种方法：参与者观察、档案研究、非正式访谈和调查，以及一个基于谷歌地图的地理可视化工具，以促进对实际空间中的社会模式的了解，该项目将能够更深入地分析两个边界地区的个人非正式网络和社区社会网络以及在空间上嵌入的经济做法。