Scholars Award: The Coming of Age: The Formation of the Global Science and Policy of Aging

学者奖：时代的到来：全球科学的形成和老龄化政策

• 批准号: 1230524
• 负责人: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
• 金额: $ 17.36万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1230524&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholars; Award; Coming; Age; Formation

The formation and dynamics of global science and policy fields are important to understand because fields shape the kinds of questions that are asked and answered, who participates in decisionmaking, and who acquires benefits or is harmed by processes and frameworks. Studies of global science and policy fields are relatively rare, and those that exist have typically assumed that knowledge and policy flows are from the global north to other parts of the globe. Recent research has suggested that this framework is unsound, and misses the critical exchanges of ideas and people that operate in multiple directions, including from the global south to the global north. This research project intervenes at this point, examining how global science and policy fields are formed through critical exchange points at multiple institutional, state, and extra-state levels, using a case study of the formation of the science and policy of aging. More specifically, this study investigates how the science and policy of aging took form at the local, community, nation and global level, by addressing three critical questions: 1) how and why specific policymakers and scientists have conceived of and shaped knowledge about aging and its policies; 2) how and why specific geographic areas came to be sites of scientific and policy intervention around aging; 3)what critical arenas and conjuctures played the greatest role in field formation. Evidence is drawn from archival data and existing documents from international institutions and NGOs, analysis of scientific publications, and in-depth interviews with experts and policymakers to explore these questions.This study contributes to social scientific understandings of the emergence of new science fields by showing how politics and science intersect to produce transnational networks of experts who can interact across ideological and political settings. It advances social scientific knowledge of how fields evolve, gain credibility, and ebb from global policy agendas, with persistent legacies in contemporary policies.Around the globe, the rapid aging of populations is transforming societies in profound and pervasive ways. The social and political implications of an aged population have raised concerns in national and international governance organizations, in scientific communities, and among medical researchers. New policy interventions and fields of scientific study have been established to address these concerns, knowledge of the norms, assumptions, institutional junctures that have and continue to shape the science and policy of aging, activities are undertaken without the comparative knowledge necessary to make valuable interventions. This study will address that gap, and provide knowledge about the critical arenas and conjunctures that have played and may play important causal roles in future aging science and policy. Research results are disseminated through the development and delivery of course materials, briefings and presentations to NGOs and other institutions, and through scholarly publications.

了解全球科学和政策领域的形成和动态非常重要，因为领域决定了提出和回答的问题、谁参与决策、谁获得利益或受到流程和框架的损害。全球科学和政策领域的研究相对较少，现有的研究通常假设知识和政策流动是从北半球流向全球其他地区。最近的研究表明，这一框架并不健全，并且忽略了从南半球到北半球等多个方向运作的思想和人员的关键交流。该研究项目介入这一点，利用老龄化科学和政策形成的案例研究，研究全球科学和政策领域是如何通过多个机构、国家和国家外层面的关键交换点形成的。更具体地说，本研究通过解决三个关键问题，调查老龄化科学和政策如何在地方、社区、国家和全球层面形成：1）特定政策制定者和科学家如何以及为何构想和形成有关老龄化及其政策的知识； 2）特定地理区域如何以及为何成为围绕老龄化问题进行科学和政策干预的场所； 3）哪些关键领域和情境在场域形成中发挥了最大作用。证据来自国际机构和非政府组织的档案数据和现有文件、对科学出版物的分析以及对专家和政策制定者的深入访谈，以探讨这些问题。这项研究通过展示政治和科学如何交叉产生可以跨意识形态和政治环境互动的跨国专家网络，有助于社会科学地理解新科学领域的出现。它推进了关于各个领域如何演变、获得可信度以及从全球政策议程中消失的社会科学知识，并在当代政策中留下了持久的遗产。在全球范围内，人口的迅速老龄化正在以深刻而普遍的方式改变着社会。人口老龄化的社会和政治影响引起了国家和国际治理组织、科学界和医学研究人员的关注。已经建立了新的政策干预措施和科学研究领域来解决这些问题，对已经并将继续塑造老龄化科学和政策的规范、假设和制度关口的了解，在没有进行有价值的干预措施所需的比较知识的情况下开展活动。这项研究将解决这一差距，并提供有关在未来老龄化科学和政策中已经发挥或可能发挥重要因果作用的关键领域和情况的知识。研究成果通过开发和向非政府组织和其他机构提供课程材料、简报和演示以及学术出版物来传播。