Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Quantification of Geography and Social Relations in Agrarian Reforms

博士论文研究：土地改革中地理与社会关系的量化

• 批准号: 1755025
• 负责人: Erik Mueggler
• 金额: $ 0.68万
• 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: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-01 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1755025&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Quantification; Geography

The research supported by this award investigates how land and other resources are quantified in rural land reform projects. Land reforms reallocate access to primary productive resources. This reallocation critically depends on measurements and calculations that can vary significantly from one context to another. The researcher seeks to understand how these numbers are produced and how they are incorporated into governmental planning and design. The research is important because quantifications of all kinds, from national censuses to educational testing, have become a common part of contemporary life. This research focuses on the micro-processes by which the actual numbers are produced and who produces them. This information will help both policy makers who use numbers to make important decisions and citizens whose lives are affected by those decisions to better understand the complexities that can lie behind quantifications.The research will be undertaken by Sheng Long, a University of Michigan anthropology doctoral student, who is supervised by Dr. Erik Mueggler. Long will use rural land reform in China as a case study. This major national quantification project provides a rich and unique opportunity that would not be available in the United States, although the results of her study will be applicable to the U.S. Long will investigate how rural residents and other social actors measure and calculate agricultural resources. She has structured her research with two sets of queries. The first set is about numerical governance. How do social actors--farmers, bureaucrats, government staff, and surveyors--produce numbers, individually and cooperatively, in land reforms? The second set of questions is about the quantification of personhood and belongings. How do people manipulate numerical standards that generate social labeling? How do they calculate land contextually when they shift social roles from household to neighborhood to community? Long will collect data in three major sites: village households and agricultural fields; a GIS survey company; and familial and institutional archives. Findings from the research will contribute to interdisciplinary theorization of social category and relations through the lens of numbers. It also will provide data for policymakers worldwide who need to understand how local population are drawn into, affect, and are affected by large-scale quantification projects.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持的研究调查了农村土地改革项目中如何量化土地和其他资源。土地改革真正分配了主要的生产资源。重新分配在很大程度上取决于测量和计算，这些测量和计算可能因某种情况而异。 研究人员试图了解如何生产这些数字，以及如何将它们纳入政府计划和设计中。这项研究很重要，因为从国家人口普查到教育测试的各种量化已成为当代生活的普遍组成部分。这项研究重点是生产实际数字并生产它们的微处理。这些信息将有助于使用数字做出重要决定的决策者和他们的生活受到这些决定的影响，以更好地了解量化背后的复杂性。这项研究将由密歇根大学人类学博士学位学生Sheng Long进行，他在Erik Mueggler博士监督下进行。长期将在中国使用农村土地改革作为案例研究。这个主要的国家量化项目提供了一个丰富而独特的机会，尽管她的研究结果将适用于美国长期以来，但仍将调查农村居民和其他社会参与者如何衡量和计算农业资源。她通过两套查询进行了研究。第一组是关于数值治理的。社会行为者（农场，官僚，政府工作人员和测量师）如何在土地改革中单独和合作地生产数字？第二组问题是关于人格和财产的量化。人们如何操纵产生社会标签的数值标准？当他们将社会角色从家庭转移到社区转移到社区时，他们如何计算土地？长期将在三个主要地点收集数据：乡村家庭和农业领域； GIS调查公司；以及家族和机构档案。研究的结果将通过数字镜头促进社会类别和关系的跨学科理论。它还将为全球政策制定者提供数据，他们需要了解当地人口如何吸引，影响并受到大规模量化项目的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准通过评估来进行评估。