Workshop: A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of Processes of Development and Modernization - Washington, D.C., June 2015

研讨会：发展和现代化进程的跨学科分析 - 华盛顿特区，2015 年 6 月

• 批准号: 1431415
• 负责人: Jennifer Smith
• 金额: $ 2.29万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1431415&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Cross; Disciplinary; Analysis; Processes

This award is to support a two-day interdisciplinary workshop that is to be held in Washington, DC, in June 2015. The workshop will bring together historians of science, technology, and the environment with regional experts from around the world to discuss pre-circulated papers. The ultimate aim of the workshop is to publish an edited volume. The focus of the workshop and volume will be the environmental dimensions of international development programs in the Global South and the associated ideas of technological transfer. Among the issues and questions to be addressed are the historical origins and intentions of modernization and industrialization projects, their impact in both rural and urban environments in less developed parts of the world, and the changes that new technologies and knowledge regimes brought to local ecologies, production systems, and cultural understandings of nature. Participants will also consider how new forms of expertise were created and affected indigenous knowledge, and how new technologies reconfigured spatial arrangements, particularly the relations between global, national, and local levels. The workshop will add both insight and momentum to the individual research agendas of participants, and thereby have an impact on the research of the collaborators and the students of the participants. A publicly accessible workshop webpage will also be developed that will make widely accessible the essay abstracts, author contact information, and a summary of the conference proceedings. The published volume of workshop papers will help people understand and assess the long-term effects of such interventions, so that people and institutions invested in the Global South might reconsider their approaches to development and industrialization in these regions with the potential to improve and protect natural landscapes in the future.

该奖项是为了支持将于2015年6月在华盛顿举行的为期两天的跨学科研讨会。研讨会将汇集科学，技术和环境的历史学家与来自世界各地的区域专家讨论预先分发的文件。讲习班的最终目的是出版一卷编辑本。研讨会和卷的重点将是在全球南部的国际发展方案的环境方面和技术转让的相关想法。要解决的问题包括现代化和工业化项目的历史起源和意图，它们对世界欠发达地区农村和城市环境的影响，以及新技术和知识体系给当地生态、生产系统和对自然的文化理解带来的变化。与会者还将审议新形式的专门知识是如何产生和影响土著知识的，以及新技术如何重新调整空间安排，特别是全球、国家和地方各级之间的关系。讲习班将为参与者的个人研究议程增加洞察力和动力，从而对合作者和参与者的学生的研究产生影响。还将开发一个可公开访问的研讨会网页，使论文摘要、作者联系信息和会议记录摘要可广泛访问。出版的研讨会论文集将帮助人们理解和评估这些干预措施的长期影响，以便在全球南方投资的人们和机构可以重新考虑他们在这些地区的发展和工业化方法，以便将来改善和保护自然景观。