Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Intra-Indigenous Relations

这项由该奖项资助的研究将调查最近城市化进程中全球变化的后果。人口流动、新的通信技术和动荡的房地产市场为世界各地城市的变化奠定了基础。这项研究将着眼于这些力量是如何结合在一起的，它们如何影响城市生活，以及它们如何创造新的基础设施和对城市空间的要求。总体研究目标是更好地理解流动性和城市迁移的因果和经验层面，并将其与城市化和基础设施发展的全球动态联系起来。这项研究将由加州大学伯克利分校的人类学家丹尼尔·费舍尔博士进行。由于要研究的变化是如此广泛和相互关联，以至于从研究的角度来看是笨拙的，所以研究人员选择将他的研究重点放在一个单一地点的多个方面：澳大利亚北领地首府达尔文的土著城市化。他将使用人类学的创新组合方法收集数据，包括：密集、长期的参与者观察，以了解各种生活空间、经历和社区；档案研究，通过行政记录、口述历史、地籍地图和摄影材料跟踪历史发展；合作媒体制作，通过也构成生活的媒体深入了解生活的日常方面；以及社会和地籍调查。该项目的调查结果将有助于对当代城市化进行广泛的比较研究，更具体地说，有助于了解城市化的跨文化和基础设施特性及其对边缘化人口的影响。资助该项目还支持美国本科生和研究生的研究机会。这位研究人员将制作在线和博物馆展览，以及他的成果的学术出版物。

The research funded by this award will investigate the consequences of recent global shifts in urbanizing processes. Population mobility, new communications technologies, and volatile property markets underpin changes in cities the world over. This research will look at how these forces come together, how they affect urban life, and how they create new kinds of infrastructures and claims to urban spaces. The overarching research goal is to better understand both causal and experiential dimensions of mobility and urban migration, and to relate these to global dynamics of urbanization and infrastructure development. The research will be conducted by anthropologist Dr. Daniel Fisher of the University of California, Berkeley. Because the transformations to be studied are so broad and interconnected as to be unwieldy from a research perspective, the researcher has chosen to focus his investigations on multiple facets in a single site: Aboriginal urbanization in Darwin, capital of Australia's Northern Territory. He will collect data using an innovative mix of anthropological methods, including: intensive, long-term participant observation to understand the wide variety of lived spaces, experiences, and communities; archival research to track historical developments through administrative records, oral histories, cadastral maps, and photographic materials; collaborative media production to gain insight into everyday aspects of life through the media that are also constitutive of that life; and social and cadastral surveys. Findings from this project will contribute to the comparative study of contemporary urbanization broadly and more specifically to understanding its intercultural and infrastructural properties and their effects on marginalized populations. Funding this project also supports research opportunities for American undergraduate and graduate students. The researcher will produce online and museological exhibitions as well as scholarly publications of his results.