Doctoral Dissertation Research: An Ethnographic Study of National Security Policies at the Local Level

博士论文研究：地方国家安全政策的民族志研究

• 批准号: 1823645
• 负责人: Jacqueline Urla
• 金额: $ 2.44万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 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: 2018-07-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1823645&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Ethnographic; Study

One responsibility of any government is to provide for domestic security. A significant challenge in doing so effectively is that new policies and supporting technologies often turn out to have differential effects at different social structural levels particularly in very heterogenous populations. Some of these effects are unintended and may produce unanticipated local responses. The research supported by this award will use a case study approach and the intensive methodologies of anthropology to examine closely how and why this happens. The research will help illuminate the inner complex structures of contemporary society, which will contribute to improved social scientific understanding. Findings from the research also will help policy makers bridge the gap between the goals of security reforms and local-level consequences and experiences.The research will be carried out by University of Massachusetts anthropology doctoral student, Ana Del Conde, under the supervision of Dr. Jacqueline Urla. The researcher will undertake 12 months of research in Mexico where the Merida Initiative, a security reform implemented in 2006 to combat organized crime and drug trafficking, provides an appropriate research opportunity because it has been in place long enough to trace out its local effects. In order to produce a richer and more complete in-depth understanding, the researcher has narrowed her focus to a particular sub-population, indigenous women in the state of Michoacan. Using a mixed-methods approach, she will collect data on how the Initiative is being locally experienced, and how it interacts with other strategies that people have developed locally to protect themselves. The research has a cross-sectional design. Data will be collected in three communities through informal and semi-structured interviews, participant observation, free-listing workshops, and photovoice workshops to produce qualitative and quantitative data, field notes, interview transcripts, and visual narratives. Research results will be shared with multiple stakeholders including research participants, local government officials, and community members who seek to improve the effectiveness of security reforms. Results also will contribute to the growing body of social scientific theoretical work on conflict and security.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.

任何政府的责任之一都是提供国内安全。有效地做到这一点的一个重大挑战是，新政策和支助技术往往在不同的社会结构层面产生不同的影响，特别是在极不相同的人口中。其中一些影响是意想不到的，可能会产生意想不到的局部反应。该奖项支持的研究将使用案例研究方法和人类学的密集方法来仔细检查这种情况是如何发生的以及为什么会发生。这一研究有助于阐明当代社会内部复杂的结构，有助于提高对社会科学的认识。这项研究的结果还将帮助决策者弥合安全改革目标与地方层面的后果和经验之间的差距。这项研究将由马萨诸塞大学人类学博士生安娜·德尔·康德在杰奎琳·乌尔拉博士的指导下进行。这名研究人员将在墨西哥进行12个月的研究。2006年实施的打击有组织犯罪和贩毒的安全改革“梅里达倡议”（Merida Initiative）为墨西哥提供了一个适当的研究机会，因为该倡议已经实施了足够长的时间，可以追踪其对当地的影响。为了产生更丰富、更完整、更深入的理解，研究人员将研究重点缩小到一个特定的亚群体，即米却肯州的土著妇女。她将采用混合方法收集数据，了解该计划在当地是如何实施的，以及它如何与当地人们为保护自己而制定的其他策略相互作用。本研究采用横断面设计。数据将在三个社区通过非正式和半结构化访谈、参与者观察、自由清单研讨会和照片语音研讨会收集，以产生定性和定量数据、实地笔记、访谈记录和视觉叙述。研究成果将与多方利益相关者共享，包括研究参与者、地方政府官员和寻求提高安全改革有效性的社区成员。研究结果还将有助于关于冲突和安全的社会科学理论工作的不断增长。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。