Doctoral Dissertation Research: Rapid Infrastructural Development, Mobility, and Changing Spatial and Social Relations

博士论文研究：基础设施的快速发展、流动性以及不断变化的空间和社会关系

• 批准号: 1823119
• 负责人: Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan
• 金额: $ 1.23万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1823119&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Rapid; Infrastructural

The quality, role, and impact of transport infrastructure are at the center stage of discussions on development and accessibility. How does increasing vehicular traffic, road networks and associated urbanization affect particular regional economies? How do changes and challenges to infrastructural development at the local level impact regional identities and even national debates? Given the increasing significance of infrastructure politics in the regional and national American identity and politics, understanding the factors and processes that constitute them can help us determine the varied regional patterns, gaps and impacts in such infrastructure development, crucial to cross-country differences and development. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, the project would enhance scientific understanding by broadly disseminating its findings to organizations invested in discovering more effective means of improving public infrastructure.Bhoomika Joshi, under the supervision of Dr. Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan of Yale University will explore what impact new mobilities created through rapid infrastructural development have on social and spatial relationships. This project aims to understand the role of road transport in the regional hill economy of the Indian Himalayas. This setting provides a laboratory for investigating the effects of rapid infrastructural development where roads are the principle method of transport. India is the fastest growing manufacturer of automobiles with a rapidly expanding road network that has fueled varied aspirations and expectations at the regional level. Given that the extent and network of roads and mass road transport has increased rapidly in the high reaches of the Himalayas over the last decade, this project will examine how that has affected the urban life, business networks and regional identity in the region. It is a mixed method and multi-sited project that will be conducted over a total period of 16 months and across three sites in the Indian Himalayas. Since road transport is the only mode of mobility in the region, the proposed research at three different sites is crucial to understanding the kinds of infrastructure politics it determines through the prism of new forms of urban economy, new patterns of mobility and newly shaped identities in the ecologically fragile and fast changing Himalayan landscape. It will use a combination of semi-structured interviews and surveys with drivers and transporters, life histories of old residents and travelers and interviews with transport bureaucrats in addition to archival research and mobile ethnography (travelling between small towns in shared taxis). The proposed research will provide a much-needed analysis of infrastructure politics at the regional level and its impact on the regional economy and identity which will not only provide the analytical tools for investigating and determining such patterns in the United States of America but even globally.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.

交通基础设施的质量、作用和影响是关于发展和无障碍的讨论的中心。日益增加的车辆交通、道路网络和相关的城市化如何影响特定区域经济？地方一级基础设施发展的变化和挑战如何影响区域特性甚至全国辩论？鉴于基础设施政治在区域和国家美国身份和政治中的重要性日益增加，了解构成它们的因素和过程可以帮助我们确定这种基础设施发展中的各种区域模式，差距和影响，这对跨国差异和发展至关重要。该项目除了为培训一名人类学研究生提供资金，使其掌握经验性科学数据收集和分析方法外，还将通过向致力于发现更有效的改善公共基础设施手段的组织广泛传播其研究结果，加强科学认识。在耶鲁大学Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan博士的指导下，将探讨通过快速基础设施发展创造的新的流动性对社会和空间关系的影响。该项目旨在了解公路运输在印度喜马拉雅山地区山区经济中的作用。这一背景为研究以道路为主要运输方式的基础设施快速发展的影响提供了一个实验室。印度是增长最快的汽车制造商，其快速扩张的道路网络在区域层面激发了各种愿望和期望。鉴于过去十年来喜马拉雅山高海拔地区公路和大众公路运输的范围和网络迅速扩大，本项目将研究这对该区域的城市生活、商业网络和区域特征产生了何种影响。这是一个混合方法和多地点项目，将在印度喜马拉雅山的三个地点进行，为期16个月。由于道路运输是该地区唯一的交通方式，因此在三个不同地点进行的拟议研究对于理解基础设施政治的类型至关重要，它通过新的城市经济形式，新的流动模式和生态脆弱和快速变化的喜马拉雅景观中新形成的身份的棱镜来确定。除了档案研究和移动的人种学（在小城镇之间乘坐共享出租车）之外，它还将使用半结构化访谈和对司机和运输者的调查、老居民和旅行者的生活史以及对交通官员的访谈相结合。这项研究将提供一个非常-该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的知识价值进行评估来支持。影响审查标准。