Doctoral Dissertation Research: Political Ecologies of Value: Tourism & Social Conflict in Baja California Sur, Mexico

博士论文研究：价值政治生态：旅游

• 批准号: 1226992
• 负责人: Sarah Lyon
• 金额: $ 1.22万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 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 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1226992&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Political; Ecologies

University of Kentucky doctoral candidate Ryan Anderson, supervised by Dr. Sarah Lyon, will undertake research on the local ecological effects of conflicts about development projects. Anderson will focus on tensions that may arise between economic values, on the one hand, and moral and cultural values on the others. He will carry out the research on the East Cape of Baja California Sur, Mexico, where preliminary research indicates that a large-scale development project has residents deeply divided. The research is designed to explore connections between the social production of cultural, ethical, and economic value and how people use, understand, exploit, and shape the geographic and ecological spaces in which they live.Anderson will conduct 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork with two communities in the region. He will employ a multi-faceted research design that includes participant observation, open-ended and semi-structured interviews, GPS mapping, and photographic documentation. These data will allow him to 1) document the range of resident responses; 2) understand the relationship between competing social values and design and use of tourism destinations; and 3) and identify connections between the larger political economy of tourism and local impacts on culture, society, and access to critical resources such as public space and water. Findings from this research will contribute to social scientific understanding of how different kinds of values affect and are affected by local economic development projects and tourism projects in particular. In addition to supporting the training of a social scientist, this research will be significant for community members, academics, and policymakers at both the local and global level.

肯塔基州大学博士候选人瑞安安德森，由莎拉里昂博士监督，将进行关于发展项目冲突的当地生态影响的研究。安德森将重点关注经济价值观与道德和文化价值观之间可能出现的紧张关系。他将在墨西哥南下加利福尼亚南下加利福尼亚的东开普进行研究，初步研究表明，一个大规模的开发项目使居民产生了深刻的分歧。该研究旨在探索文化，伦理和经济价值的社会生产与人们如何使用，理解，开发和塑造他们生活的地理和生态空间之间的联系。安德森将在该地区的两个社区进行为期12个月的民族志实地考察。他将采用多方面的研究设计，包括参与者观察，开放式和半结构化访谈，GPS地图和摄影文档。这些数据将使他能够1）记录居民的反应范围; 2）了解竞争的社会价值观与旅游目的地的设计和使用之间的关系; 3）并确定旅游业的更大政治经济与当地对文化，社会的影响之间的联系，以及获得公共空间和水等关键资源。这项研究的结果将有助于社会科学的理解不同类型的价值观如何影响和影响当地的经济发展项目，特别是旅游项目。除了支持社会科学家的培训，这项研究将是重要的社区成员，学者和决策者在地方和全球层面。