WORKSHOP: Community Change in Global Perspective

研讨会：全球视角下的社区变革

• 批准号: 1724778
• 负责人: Jeff Maskovsky
• 金额: $ 4.22万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-02-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1724778&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Community; Change; Global; Perspective

This award supports a two-part international workshop on changing notions of community in global perspective. Previous research has demonstrated that strong community ties are linked to civic efficacy, participation, cooperation, and volunteering, and are, therefore, an important measure of social well-being. But recently, researchers have observed dramatic increases in social heterogeneity, weakening ties and potentially underming trust within and between communities. The workshop asks if these developments are inevitable and what the outcomes will be. It addresses these questions using a comparative, community studies approach. Social scientists from the United States, Mexico, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom will use anthropological ethnographic and archival data to examine current shifts in how communities are formed, how they change, and the kinds of ties that are formed within and between them. The work will have impact by 1) increasing understanding of the causes and consequences of community change in the contemporary world; 2) supporting international research collaboration; and 3) promoting education through the inclusion of graduate student participants and by communicating results to the public.The two-part workshop will be convened by Dr. Jeff Maskovsky (City University of New York) and Dr. Sophie Bjork-James (Vanderbilt University). Community studies experts will share data on how communities across the world are changing and whether those changes strengthen or weaken social ties. The first workshop will seek to answer multiple, interrelated questions: From global perspectives, what are the primary influencers of community change? What social factors have the most impact in strengthening or weakening community ties? How does increased diversity affect community ties? And what can ethnography and history contribute to current debates? The workshop will emphasize a comparative perspective and will develop knowledge of community change across regional, national, international, and global contexts. The second workshop will distill findings and prepare for the publication of an edited volume designed to reach four high impact audiences: students in graduate and undergraduate anthropology courses, anthropologists studying community change, scholars in other disciplines working on similar topics, and the English language reading public.

该奖项支持一个由两部分组成的关于在全球视角下改变社区观念的国际研讨会。以前的研究表明，牢固的社区联系与公民效能、参与、合作和志愿服务有关，因此是衡量社会福祉的重要指标。但最近，研究人员观察到社会异质性的急剧增加，削弱了联系，并潜在地削弱了社区内部和社区之间的信任。研讨会询问这些发展是否不可避免，以及结果会是什么。它使用比较、社区研究的方法来解决这些问题。来自美国、墨西哥、挪威、西班牙和英国的社会科学家将使用人类学、人种学和档案数据来研究社区如何形成、如何变化以及社区内部和之间形成的联系的当前变化。这项工作将在以下方面产生影响：1)加深对当代世界社区变化的原因和后果的了解；2)支持国际研究合作；3)通过吸收研究生参与者和向公众传播成果来促进教育。社区研究专家将分享世界各地社区正在发生变化的数据，以及这些变化是加强还是削弱了社会关系。第一个研讨会将寻求回答多个相互关联的问题：从全球角度来看，社区变化的主要影响因素是什么？哪些社会因素对加强或削弱社区联系的影响最大？多样性的增加如何影响社区关系？民族志和历史对当前的辩论有什么贡献？研讨会将强调比较的观点，并将发展关于区域、国家、国际和全球背景下的社区变化的知识。第二期讲习班将提炼研究结果，并准备出版一本编辑后的卷，旨在影响到四个有影响力的受众：人类学研究生和本科生课程的学生、研究社区变化的人类学家、从事类似主题的其他学科的学者以及英语阅读公众。