Doctoral Dissertation Research: (Re)Producing the Citizenry: Reproduction, Social Fragmentation, and State-Building

Dennis HoganWeeam HammoudehBrown university在持续的国家冲突背景下，生殖决策和行为如何受到更大的社会经济变化和国家生育行为政策的影响？本研究考察了国家和地方一级的体制变革如何影响社会群体一级和个人生命历程上的再生产和家庭形成的社会过程。研究人员将研究巴勒斯坦的案例，重点关注巴勒斯坦准国家的创建和演变以及这些地区的社会经济变化如何影响生殖。尽管巴勒斯坦极高的生育率在学术文献和新闻媒体中占据突出地位，但在奥斯陆和平协定签署后开始的建国时代，生育率急剧下降已经被注意到。这个项目的重点是巴勒斯坦被占领土上国家建设与生殖做法之间的关系。该研究探讨了国家建设时期公民社会和公民生活条件的变化，以及这些变化对生殖和家庭形成的影响，以及嵌入在独特背景下的社会进程。通过阐明国家建设与生殖实践之间的联系，该研究有助于更广泛地理解家庭形成和生殖，以及国家转型与生殖之间的联系。这组科学家采用了一种两阶段混合方法，其中包括对区域和次区域生育率的二次分析，以及比较人种学。将分析来自各种来源的次要数量数据，以便提供一段时间以来生育趋势的宏观概况，并分析生育趋势的变化以及生育做法的结构和人口特征。通过比较人种学，这些项目超越了对生育结果的审查，并走向了解生活经验、生育的意义、以及社会和国家变革影响生殖实践的机制。该项目扩展了生育行为的人口统计学理论，并为理解冲突背景下的生育行为制定了一个概念性框架。更广泛的影响这项研究产生了关于生殖保健服务提供的信息，对持续冲突的国家的生殖保健规定和需求具有政策影响。该项目将把各种数据集结合起来，将人口和健康数据与经济和地理数据联系起来，以便对人口和健康结果进行更丰富的分析。该项目还将扩大巴勒斯坦研究人员与美国同行之间的合作。

SES-1407731 Dennis HoganWeeam HammoudehBrown UniversityHow are reproductive decisions and behavior impacted by larger socioeconomic changes and state policies on fertility behavior within the context of ongoing national conflict? This study examines ways in which institutional transformations at the national and local level impact the social processes of reproduction and family formation both at the level of social group and over the individual life course. The researchers will study the case of Palestine, focusing on how the creation and evolution of the Palestinian quasi-state and socioeconomic change in these areas affect reproduction. While exceptionally high Palestinian fertility has been featured prominently in the academic literature and news press, dramatic drops in fertility have been noted in the state building era, which was ushered in by the signing of the Oslo peace accords. This project focuses on the relationship between state building and reproductive practices in the occupied Palestinian territory. The study addresses the changing conditions of social and civic life for citizens in the state-building era and the impact of these on reproduction and family formation, social processes embedded in a unique context. Through illuminating the link between state building and reproductive practices, the research contributes more broadly to understanding of family formation and reproduction and how national transformations and reproduction are connected. The researchers employ a two-staged mixed-methods approach that includes secondary analysis of regional and sub-regional fertility rates, and a comparative ethnography. Secondary quantitative data from a variety of sources will be analyzed in order to provide a macro-level portrait of fertility trends over time as well as to analyze changes in fertility trends and structural and population characteristics on the reproductive practices Through comparative ethnography, the projects goes beyond an examination of reproductive outcomes and towards an understanding of the lived experience, meanings attached to reproduction, and the mechanisms by which social and national transformations impact reproductive practices. This project expands demographic theory of fertility behavior and develops a conceptual framework for understanding fertility behavior within the context of conflict settings. Broader ImpactsThe study generates information on reproductive health care delivery that has policy implications on reproductive health provisions and needs in nations with ongoing conflicts. The project will combine various datasets linking demographic and health data with economic and geographic data allowing for richer analyses of demographic and health outcomes. The project will also expand collaborations between Palestinian researchers and US counterparts.