Unlikely Alliances in Rural-Urban Water Conflicts

城乡水冲突中不太可能结成联盟

• 批准号: 2004800
• 负责人: Sophia Borgias
• 金额: $ 6.33万
• 依托单位: Borgias, Sophia L
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2004800&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Unlikely; Alliances; Rural; Urban; Water

This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Kate Berry at University of Nevada, Reno, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist investigating rural-urban water conflicts in the Western United States. As cities increasingly look to rural areas for water supplies, they are often met with staunch resistance. Yet, the dynamics of conflict and cooperation over rural-urban water transfers are not well understood. This research addresses this gap by examining resistance to two large rural-urban water transfers. In particular, it seeks to understand the dynamics of alliance and alignment among diverse Indigenous and non-Indigenous actors resisting these transfers. The project aims to contribute a more nuanced understanding of what are called unlikely alliances. More broadly, it seeks to advance understandings of the role of contestation and collective action in water governance. Specifically, this project engages scholarship on unlikely alliances, hydrosocial territory, and territorial pluralism to answer three research questions. First, why and when are Indigenous and non-Indigenous actors finding strategic alliance or alignment over shared resistance to rural-to-urban water transfers? Second, how is alliance or alignment among diverse actors shaping and shaped by the way hydrosocial territories are constructed, mobilized, and contested in water transfer conflicts? Third, how do assertions of Indigenous governance and tribal sovereignty shape the ways actors navigate territorial pluralism as they ally or align in pursuit of water justice? To address these questions, the project employs qualitative methods in a comparative case study of two water transfer conflicts in the Great Basin region. Methods for data collection include interviews, archival research and document review, participant observation of meetings and events, and focus groups that will be used to discuss and gather feedback about preliminary findings. The results of the study will inform key water policy debates and provide insights for activists and organizations interested in building more diverse coalitions. By examining the diverse visions of hydrosocial territory asserted in rural-urban water conflicts, this research will contribute to scholarly understandings of how actors pursue water justice and build new water regimes.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.

该奖项是作为NSF的社会，行为和经济科学博士后研究奖学金（SPRF）计划的一部分提供的。SPRF计划的目标是为学术界，工业或私营部门和政府的科学事业准备有前途的早期职业博士级科学家。SPRF的奖励包括在知名科学家的赞助下进行两年的培训，并鼓励博士后研究员进行独立研究。NSF致力于促进来自科学界各部门的科学家，包括来自代表性不足的群体的科学家参与其研究计划和活动;博士后期间被认为是实现这一目标的专业发展的重要水平。每个博士后研究员必须解决推进各自学科领域的重要科学问题。在内华达州大学里诺分校的凯特·贝瑞博士的赞助下，该博士后奖学金支持一位早期职业科学家调查美国西部的城乡水冲突。随着城市越来越多地向农村地区寻求供水，他们往往遇到坚定的抵制。然而，人们对农村-城市水资源转移方面的冲突与合作动态并不十分了解。这项研究通过检查两次大规模城乡调水的阻力来解决这一差距。特别是，它试图了解抵制这些转让的不同土著和非土著行为者之间的联盟和结盟的动态。该项目旨在对所谓的不太可能的联盟做出更细致的理解。更广泛地说，它力求促进对水资源管理中的驻地和集体行动的作用的理解。具体而言，该项目涉及不太可能的联盟，水社会领域和领土多元化的奖学金，以回答三个研究问题。第一，土著和非土著行为者为什么以及何时在共同抵制农村向城市转移水资源问题上找到战略联盟或结盟？第二，不同行为者之间的联盟或结盟是如何形成的，以及在水资源转移冲突中如何构建、动员和争夺水资源社会领域的？第三，土著治理和部落主权的主张如何塑造行为者在追求水正义时结盟或结盟的方式？为了解决这些问题，该项目采用定性的方法在两个调水冲突的大盆地地区的比较案例研究。收集数据的方法包括访谈、档案研究和文件审查、与会者对会议和活动的观察以及用于讨论初步调查结果并收集反馈意见的重点小组。研究结果将为关键的水政策辩论提供信息，并为有兴趣建立更多样化联盟的活动家和组织提供见解。通过研究在城乡水资源冲突中所主张的水社会领域的不同愿景，这项研究将有助于学术界了解参与者如何追求水资源正义和建立新的水资源制度。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影响审查标准进行评估来支持。