Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Intra-Indigenous Relations

由该奖项资助的研究将调查最近全球城市化进程变化的后果。人口流动、新通信技术和动荡的房地产市场是世界各地城市变化的基础。这项研究将着眼于这些力量如何结合在一起，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移民的因果和经验维度，并将这些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。由于要研究的转变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，因此研究人员选择将他的调查集中在一个地点的多个方面：澳大利亚北领地首府达尔文的土著城市化。他将使用一种创新的人类学方法来收集数据，包括：密集的、长期的参与性观察，以了解各种各样的生活空间、经历和社区；档案研究，通过行政记录、口述历史、地籍地图和摄影资料追踪历史发展；协同媒体制作，通过构成日常生活的媒体深入了解日常生活；以及社会和地籍调查。该项目的研究成果将有助于对当代城市化进行广泛和具体的比较研究，以了解其跨文化和基础设施特性及其对边缘人口的影响。资助这个项目也为美国本科生和研究生提供研究机会。该研究人员将制作在线和博物馆展览，以及他的研究成果的学术出版物。

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.