Doctoral Dissertation Research: Expert Knowledge of Nuclear Materials and the Development of Atomic Energy Agency Policies

在芝加哥大学的Josephe Masco的监督下，Anna Weichselbraun将对国际原子能机构进行审查。国际原子能机构是全球核技术监管的唯一仲裁者，其合法性的产生和技术独立性的沟通。制造和执行技术科学专业知识是这种独立性和相关官僚权威的核心，研究设计精心设计了问题，以探索这些活动领域及其纪录片踪迹。通过国际原子能机构为期10个月的人种学研究，对150-200份文件的语言分析，包括年度报告、保障声明、情况通报、大会文件和新闻稿，以及对成员的采访和对他们建立共识活动的互动分析，共同-国际和平将确定并记录国际原子能机构工作人员努力在联合国及其成员国等理事机构之间达成内部技术法律共识和国际政治共识的过程。该项目位于文化人类学和科学技术研究的交叉点。这项跨学科研究将使人们更好地了解原子能机构在国际政治和政策中发挥的独特而强大的作用，并对核工业及其管理提供细微差别的看法。结果将向实践者、政策和学术受众传播。

Under the supervision of Josephe Masco at the University of Chicago, Anna Weichselbraun will examine the International Atomic Energy Agency, the 'sole arbiter in the regulation of global nuclear technology,' in its production of legitimacy and communication of 'technical independence.' Making and performing technoscientific expertise lies at the heart of this independence and associated bureaucratic authority, and the research design carefully crafts its questions to probe those spheres of activity and their documentary trails. Through a 10-month ethnographic study at the International Atomic Energy Agency, a linguistic analysis of 150-200 documents including annual reports, safeguards statements, information circulars, general conference documents, and press releases, and interviews with members and interactional analysis of their consensus-building activities, the Co-PI will identify and document the processes whereby IAEA staff work to obtain internal techno-legal consensus and international political consensus among governing bodies like the UN and its member states.This project lies at the intersection of cultural anthropology and science and technology studies. This interdisciplinary research will produce a better understanding of the unique and powerful role the IAEA plays in international politics and policy and contribute a nuanced view into the nuclear industry and its regulation. The results will be disseminated to practitioner, policy, and academic audiences.