Doctoral Dissertation Research: Practices and Policies of Peri-urban Land Conversion

博士论文研究：城郊土地流转的实践与政策

• 批准号: 1729241
• 负责人: Erik Harms
• 金额: $ 1.51万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 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: 2017-07-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1729241&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Practices; Policies

The research funded by this award examines peri-urban land and social transformations. The goal is to address broader questions about the current and future trajectories of agrarian societies in a world increasingly characterized by agricultural land dispossession, the conversion of rural lands to urban uses, and rural to urban migration. One outcome of these processes has been an increasing number of mega-cities, with populations in excess of 10 million residents, in places that formerly had longstanding agricultural economies. As cities grow, farmers lose land and livelihoods, and peri-urban city outskirts become informal settlements of concentrated poverty and underdevelopment. The research will address the following overarching questions: How do agrarian households that have lost agricultural land engage with the immense material and social changes to their lives? And how do their responses to land dispossession and land-use change, which can range from local-level coping to public protests and political engagement, figure into the process and strategy of urban development? Comprehensive inquiry on the micro- and macro-level implications of city expansion for those living on the urban margins is important because it will elucidate contempoary global developments in urbanization, land grabbing, and rural political movements. This knowledge will aid in future planning for politically, socially, and environmentally sustainable mega-cities.The research will be carried out in peri-urban Hanoi, Vietnam, by Yale University anthropology doctoral student, Emily Nguyen, under the supervision of Dr. Erik Harms. Hanoi is an appropriate research site because recent Vietnamese economic reform policies and urban master plan strategies have driven large-scale conversions of agricultural land into industrial and high-end residential zones. The recentness and intensity of these developments will highlight, and thereby make more amenable to study, the relationships to be examined. Findings can then be extended to other sites around the world, including in the United States. The researcher will collect empirical data through a mixed-methods approach, which will include: semi-structured interviews stratified by gender and generation, the elicitation of oral histories, participant observation, archival document analysis, and land-use mapping. Results from the study will produce a theoretical and methodological platform for understanding how formal planning, informal practices of using space, and diversity in population response come together to transform agrarian landscapes. Findings also will be useful to policy makers undertaking capital-driven urban planning in a context with socialist agrarian histories.

这项由该奖项资助的研究考察了城市周边的土地和社会转型。其目标是解决关于农业社会当前和未来轨迹的更广泛的问题，在这个世界上，农业土地被征用、农村土地转换为城市用途以及农村向城市迁移的特点日益突出。这些进程的一个结果是，在以前拥有长期农业经济的地方，人口超过1000万的特大城市越来越多。随着城市的发展，农民失去了土地和生计，城市近郊成为集中贫困和不发达的非正式住区。这项研究将解决以下主要问题：失去农地的农业家庭如何应对他们生活中巨大的物质和社会变化？他们对土地征用和土地使用变化的反应--从地方一级的应对到公众抗议和政治参与--如何融入城市发展的进程和战略？全面调查城市扩张对那些生活在城市边缘的人的微观和宏观层面的影响是重要的，因为它将阐明城市化、土地掠夺和农村政治运动方面的当代全球发展。这些知识将有助于未来规划政治、社会和环境可持续的特大城市。这项研究将由耶鲁大学人类学博士生Emily Nguyen在Erik Harm博士的指导下在越南河内的城市周边进行。河内是一个合适的研究地点，因为越南最近的经济改革政策和城市总体规划战略推动了农业用地大规模转变为工业和高端住宅区。这些发展的新近性和强度将突出需要研究的关系，从而使其更易于研究。然后，研究结果可以推广到世界各地的其他地点，包括美国。研究人员将通过混合方法收集经验数据，其中将包括：按性别和代别分层的半结构化访谈、口述历史的启发、参与者观察、档案文件分析和土地利用图。这项研究的结果将为理解正式规划、利用空间的非正式做法和人口反应中的多样性如何结合起来改变农业景观提供一个理论和方法平台。研究结果也将有助于政策制定者在社会主义农业史的背景下进行资本驱动型城市规划。