Doctoral Dissertation Research: Disposability, Sanitation, and the Environment of Waste Management in Urban Uganda

斯坦福大学博士生雅各布·多尔蒂在詹姆斯·弗格森博士的指导下，将在乌干达坎帕拉的城市环境中调查卫生设施的环境和经济影响。Doherty将在乌干达坎帕拉市进行为期13个月的实地研究，重点是管理安全卫生的城市环境的挑战。这一问题在当代坎帕拉和世界各地的许多其他城市地区都存在争议，因为经济发展和城市重建项目需要将有效的废物管理战略纳入其规划过程。通过一项涉及多种社会科学方法的研究，如参与者观察、非正式和半结构化访谈、照片启发项目和档案研究，多尔蒂将收集信息，揭示坎帕拉的居民和政府官员如何应对卫生挑战，以及环境和经济实践如何交叉。这项研究的发现将有助于社会科学理解日常生活中的卫生和污染问题。这项研究以创新的方式看待人类学研究的这一重要领域，汇集了不同的理论文献，有望为环境人类学和更广泛的全球可持续性研究以及经济和城市人类学以及非洲人类学做出贡献。这项研究也很重要，因为它将加深对城市环境中贫困、健康和环境退化之间关系的理解。这项研究的资金还支持对一名社会科学家的培训。

Stanford University doctoral candidate Jacob Doherty, supervised by Dr. James Ferguson, will investigate the environmental and economic implications of sanitation in the urban setting of Kampala, Uganda. Doherty will conduct 13 months of field research in the city of Kampala, Uganda, focusing on the challenges of managing a safe and hygienic urban environment. This issue occupies a contentious position in contemporary Kampala and many other urban areas around the world because of the need for economic development and urban renewal projects to incorporate effective waste management strategies into their planning processes. Through a study involving multiple social science methods such as participant-observation, informal and semi-structured interviews, a photo elicitation project, and archival research, Doherty will gather information that will shed light on how residents and government officials of Kampala handle sanitation challenges, and how environmental and economic practices intersect. Findings from this study will contribute to social science understandings of sanitation and pollution in everyday practices. This research takes an innovative look at this important area of anthropological study in a way that brings together different bodies of theoretical literature, promising to contribute to environmental anthropology and studies of global sustainability more generally, as well as to economic and urban anthropology and the anthropology of Africa. This research is also important because it will deepen understandings of the relationship between poverty, health, and environmental degradation in urban settings. Funding for this research also supports the training of a social scientist.