Doctoral Dissertation Research: Indigeneity, Social Movements, and Social Relations in South American Context

博士论文研究：南美背景下的原住民、社会运动和社会关系

• 批准号: 1259599
• 负责人: Charles Hale
• 金额: $ 2.51万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-02-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1259599&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Indigeneity; Social

This study will be conducted by University of Texas doctoral student Tathagatan Ravindran under the guidance of Dr. Charles Hale. This project explores how international discussions about indigeneity influence local social movements. The research is set in the Bolivian city of El Alto, which is an ideal locale for investigating globalization and indigenous social movements for a couple reasons. In addition to being the largest indigenous city in the Americas, it has also been at the center of multiple waves of mass popular mobilizations, particularly in the last decade. This research asks what these political mobilizations can tell social scientists about the nature of social relationships in ethnically diverse societies. Studies on El Alto in the 1980s and the 1990s revealed the existence of discrimination within the urban indigenous communities against recent rural immigrants who were seen to have more indigenous cultural traits. What influence then do indigenous political currents in the city have on discriminatory practices, political stability, and social relations? The research will be based on participant observation, interviews, and the collection of oral histories in two urban neighborhoods, which are both composed of rural migrants and have been active sites for indigenous social movements. The study will advance anthropological understandings of urban indigeneities, social movements and socioeconomic inequalities. In particular, the project will transform anthropological understandings about what accelerates social movements, and what their impact is on local social relations. In addition to training a graduate student, the study will also contribute to public policy attempts to address social conflict and their resolution.

本研究将由德克萨斯大学博士生Tathagatan Ravindran在Charles黑尔博士的指导下进行。这个项目探讨了关于土著问题的国际讨论如何影响当地的社会运动。这项研究是在玻利维亚城市埃尔阿尔托，这是一个理想的地点调查全球化和土著社会运动的原因有两个。除了是美洲最大的原住民城市之外，它也是多波群众动员的中心，特别是在过去十年中。这项研究询问这些政治动员可以告诉社会科学家关于种族多元化社会中社会关系的性质。1980年代和1990年代对埃尔阿尔托的研究表明，城市土著社区内存在着对新近农村移民的歧视，他们被认为具有更多的土著文化特征。那么，城市中的土著政治潮流对歧视性做法、政治稳定和社会关系有什么影响？研究将基于参与者观察，访谈，并在两个城市社区，这都是由农村移民和土著社会运动的活跃场所收集口述历史。这项研究将促进人类学对城市土著、社会运动和社会经济不平等的理解。 特别是，该项目将改变人类学对加速社会运动的原因以及它们对当地社会关系的影响的理解。除了培训一名研究生外，这项研究还将有助于处理社会冲突及其解决办法的公共政策尝试。