Doctoral Dissertation Research: Navigations of Chronic Illness and Autonomy among Miskitu Lobster Divers in Atlantic Nicaragua

博士论文研究：大西洋尼加拉瓜米斯基图龙虾潜水员的慢性病和自主性导航

• 批准号: 1226780
• 负责人: Paul Kroskrity
• 金额: $ 1.74万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-15 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1226780&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Navigations; Chronic

Doctoral student Clinton D. Humphrey, supervised by Dr. Paul V. Kroskrity, will undertake research on how social, political, and economic contexts affect people's understanding of their own physical and psychological experience. The project is important because it will contribute to a growing body of research in the social sciences that examines how socio-cultural processes may configure the ways in which individuals attend to, perceive, and conceptualize bodily sensations in times of illness. The research will be conducted for 14 months with Miskitu lobster divers on the Autonomous Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. The Miskitu divers' livelihoods depend on deep diving but it too frequently results in chronic and debilitating decompression illness, also known as the bends. The researcher will use a unique video analysis technique to delineate how discourse, patterns of embodied interaction, and cultural resources shape Miskitu encounters with this illness. His video recordings of lobster divers will allow him to conduct microanalyses of discourse, gesture, gaze, and bodily movement, to determine how these divers attune their senses and navigate their working bodies in the unique undersea environment as they simultaneously attend to signs of danger and sickness. Follow-up interviews and participant observation with targeted research participants will explore local explanations of illnesses. Collectively, these data will guide an investigation of how Miskitu lobster divers perceive, endure, and endeavor to make sense of the ailments they feel in their bodies in different social and environmental contexts.This study advances research on sensory experience with a distinctive micro-analytical emphasis on discourse, embodied-communicative interaction, and political-economic processes. The researcher will share research findings with local programs designed to assist these commercial divers and their families. Supporting this research also supports the education of a graduate student.

博士生克林顿·D·汉弗莱将在保罗·V·克罗斯克里蒂博士的指导下，研究社会、政治和经济环境如何影响人们对自身生理和心理体验的理解。这个项目很重要，因为它将有助于社会科学中越来越多的研究，这些研究考察社会文化过程如何配置个人在患病时照顾、感知和概念化身体感觉的方式。这项研究将在尼加拉瓜自治的大西洋海岸与米斯基图龙虾潜水员一起进行，为期14个月。米斯基图潜水员的生计依赖于深潜水，但它经常导致慢性和衰弱的减压疾病，也被称为弯曲症。研究人员将使用一种独特的视频分析技术来描绘话语、具体化互动的模式和文化资源如何塑造米斯基图与这种疾病的关系。他对龙虾潜水员的视频记录将使他能够对话语、手势、凝视和身体动作进行微观分析，以确定这些潜水员如何在独特的海底环境中协调他们的感官和导航他们的工作身体，因为他们同时注意到危险和疾病的迹象。对有针对性的研究参与者进行后续访谈和参与者观察，将探索当地对疾病的解释。总而言之，这些数据将指导调查米斯基图龙虾潜水员如何在不同的社会和环境背景下感知、忍受和努力理解他们身体中感受到的疾病。这项研究以独特的微观分析强调话语、体现-交流互动和政治-经济过程，促进了感官体验的研究。研究人员将与当地旨在帮助这些商业潜水员及其家人的项目分享研究成果。支持这项研究也支持研究生的教育。