Doctoral Dissertation Research: Understanding Community Resilience in Response to Industrial Mine Closure and Industrial Decline

博士论文研究：了解应对工业矿山关闭和工业衰退的社区复原力

• 批准号: 1459778
• 负责人: Suzanne Brenner
• 金额: $ 1.4万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-03-01 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1459778&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Understanding; Community

Throughout the United States many communities closely tied to extractive industries have been subject to intensive periods of booming growth and often-subsequent decline. Closures of industrial extractive industries often have long standing social impacts that are currently poorly understood. This project, which trains a graduate student in how to conduct rigorous, empirically-grounded scientific fieldwork, explores what role local moral, ethical, and religious values have for people in these communities struggling against dramatic geopolitical and economic decline. The findings can be extrapolated and inform other contexts where scientists are attempting to understand human resilience in response to socioeconomic and ecological stress. Jordan Haug, under the supervision of Suzanne Brenner of the University of California at San Diego, aims to understand the impact of industrial mine closure and industrial decline on local communities, as well as how communities vary in their response to those impacts. The research takes place on the island of Misima, Papua New Guinea, which in 2004 became the site of one of the most significant industrial mine closures in Oceania. Since that time, the possibilities for the island's geopolitical, infrastructural, and economic advancement have dramatically declined. Misimans have responded to these challenges by engaging in a number of moral projects in the area of education, cooperative fund raising, and Christian worship. This research asks whether these moral projects enable Misimans to overcome the seemingly insurmountable pressures of inequality and decline. Through a mixed qualitative and quantitative methods approach of participant observation, personal interviews, group discussions, and household surveys, this project will seek to understand the long-term social impacts of mine closure on the island of Misima. In doing so, this project aims to make broad contributions to the scientific study of the economic and social impacts of extractive industries on vulnerable communities and how such communities seek to overcome the challenges of decline. By understanding how Misimans respond to a decade of decline, this project seeks to provide possible answers for similar communities through the world, and the United States, may be able to similarly deal with the pressures of industrial closure and decline.

在美国各地，许多与采掘业密切相关的社区都经历了繁荣增长的密集时期，随后往往出现衰退。工业采掘业的关闭往往会产生长期的社会影响，目前人们对此知之甚少。该项目培养研究生如何进行严格的，以科学为基础的实地考察，探讨当地的道德，伦理和宗教价值观对这些社区中的人们对抗戏剧性的地缘政治和经济衰退的作用。这些发现可以外推，并为科学家试图了解人类应对社会经济和生态压力的恢复力的其他背景提供信息。在加州大学圣地亚哥分校的苏珊娜·布伦纳的监督下，乔丹·豪格的目标是了解工业矿山关闭和工业衰退对当地社区的影响，以及社区对这些影响的反应如何变化。这项研究在巴布亚新几内亚的米西马岛进行，该岛在2004年成为大洋洲最重要的工业矿山关闭地点之一。从那时起，该岛的地缘政治，基础设施和经济发展的可能性急剧下降。米西曼人通过参与教育、合作筹款和基督教崇拜领域的一些道德项目来应对这些挑战。这项研究询问这些道德项目是否能够使米西曼人克服看似不可逾越的不平等和衰落的压力。本项目将通过参与者观察、个人访谈、小组讨论和家庭调查等定性和定量相结合的方法，设法了解关闭矿山对米西马岛的长期社会影响。在这样做的过程中，该项目旨在为科学研究采掘业对脆弱社区的经济和社会影响以及这些社区如何寻求克服衰退的挑战做出广泛贡献。通过了解Misimans如何应对十年的衰退，该项目旨在为世界各地的类似社区提供可能的答案，美国可能能够类似地应对工业关闭和衰退的压力。