Doctoral Dissertation Research: Debt, Uncertainty, and Economic Governance

博士论文研究：债务、不确定性和经济治理

• 批准号: 1528719
• 负责人: Matthew Hull
• 金额: $ 1.65万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 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: 2015-09-15 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1528719&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Debt; Uncertainty

Political conflict has been established to have adverse impact on debt repayment practices and assessments of financial risk. Economic governance practices are accordingly oriented to establishing a sense of normalcy in the face of fears about financial and commercial uncertainty. Restoration of this confidence is essential to creating the stable environments that serve American commercial interests. This project, which trains a graduate student in how to conduct rigorous, empirically-grounded scientific fieldwork, will explore the impact of political conflict, uncertainty, and risk on lending and debt repayment practices. This project asks how financial stability and investment can be realized following a period of prolonged political turmoil, where credit and debt relations suffered from a breakdown in trust and a fundamental uncertainty about the future.University of Michigan doctoral student Nishita Trisal, supervised by Dr. Matthew Hull, will explore the rise of financial risk and indebtedness in Indian-administered Kashmir. At a time marked in the region by increased economic activity and an ostensible decline in violence - what media and public discourse have dubbed a "return to normalcy" following more than two decades of conflict - this research will investigate the role of finance, banking, and economic development in the project of "normalizing" Kashmir. Through eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Kashmir's capital Srinagar, specifically at the Jammu and Kashmir Bank, the District Debt Court, as well as at the homes and businesses of borrowers and defaulters, and in New Delhi, the research will track the life of financial transactions in Kashmir, from economic policy decisions to the litigation of bank default. It will do so by following the material artifacts that circulate within these sites, from loan applications and repayment notices to electronic banking systems. The research questions include: 1) How has the ongoing political conflict, and the uncertainties and risks it has produced, transformed Kashmiris' engagement with economic and legal practices? 2) What does studying sites of banking, finance, and default litigation - and the technologies that mediate them - reveal about how Kashmiris experience and conceptualize trust, risk, as well as the region's financial future and its sovereignty? 3) In what ways do the state, the judicial system, and the financial policy sector in Kashmir and in India invest in the political and economic "normalization" of Kashmir? The research will draw upon social science methods of participant observation, interviews, and linguistic analysis. It will enhance the public understanding of the global financial system, as experienced by borrowers, defaulters, loan officers, and financial policy experts. It will also produce a more robust understanding of financial risk through ethnographic analysis, thereby seeking to contribute to policy discussions aimed at ameliorating the vulnerability of politically and financially disenfranchised groups.

政治冲突已被确定对债务偿还做法和金融风险评估产生不利影响。因此，经济治理做法的方向是在面对金融和商业不确定性的恐惧时建立一种正常感。恢复这种信心对于创造有利于美国商业利益的稳定环境至关重要。这个项目，培训研究生如何进行严格的，以科学为基础的实地考察，将探讨政治冲突，不确定性和风险对贷款和债务偿还实践的影响。本项目探讨在信任和未来的根本不确定性导致信贷和债务关系破裂的长期政治动荡时期，如何实现金融稳定和投资。密歇根大学博士生西田Trisal将在Matthew船体博士的指导下，探讨印控克什米尔地区金融风险和债务增加的问题。在该地区经济活动增加和暴力事件明显减少的时期-媒体和公众话语称之为二十多年冲突后的“恢复正常”-这项研究将调查金融，银行和经济发展在克什米尔“正常化”项目中的作用。通过在克什米尔首都斯利那加，特别是在查谟和克什米尔银行，地区债务法院，以及在借款人和违约者的家庭和企业，并在新德里18个月的人种学实地考察，研究将跟踪克什米尔的金融交易的生命，从经济政策决定到银行违约诉讼。它将通过跟踪在这些网站中流通的材料工件来实现这一点，从贷款申请和还款通知到电子银行系统。研究问题包括：1）持续的政治冲突及其产生的不确定性和风险如何改变了克什米尔人对经济和法律的做法的参与？2)研究银行、金融和违约诉讼的地点--以及调解它们的技术--揭示了克什米尔人如何体验和概念化信任、风险以及该地区的金融未来和主权？3)克什米尔和印度的国家、司法系统和金融政策部门以何种方式投资于克什米尔的政治和经济“正常化”？研究将利用社会科学的参与观察，访谈和语言分析的方法。它将提高公众对全球金融体系的理解，就像借款人、违约者、信贷官员和金融政策专家所经历的那样。它还将通过人种学分析对金融风险产生更有力的理解，从而寻求促进旨在改善在政治和经济上被剥夺权利的群体的脆弱性的政策讨论。