Doctoral Dissertation Research: Plurality and Managed Integration Strategies in Urban Contexts

由于城市地区往往是异质人口的家园，对城市的研究导致城市研究学者强烈地提出理论，即城市社会性产生的交叉和冲突类别也是公共生活形成的核心。正如美国许多城市所见证的那样，这些跨越不同社会类别和在不同社会类别内的相遇和互动并不是没有深刻的政治利害关系。人们相遇的方式在一定程度上取决于国家对这种多样性的管理方式，特别是在城市空间规划方面。该项目对研究生进行数据收集和分析的科学方法培训，旨在了解城市一体化战略如何塑造社区之间的日常关系。该项目将通过向组织、科学家和政府机构广泛传播其研究结果，加强对科学和科学方法的理解。研究将在历史上多民族的背景下进行，市和州当局制定了系统的城市规划战略，整合以管理社会经济、文化和人口差异。通过询问人口统计学和社会经济上不同的个体之间的日常社会关系是如何经历的，人们如何居住和协商自己和他人的文化差异类别，以及社会人口整合如何塑造关于主体性的想法，本项目利用人类学在深层次、基层的民族志参与方面的技能，对社会文化接触和关系获得更详细、更实用和更生动的理解。经过12个月的人种学田野调查，结合参与者观察、半结构访谈、参与者绘图练习和档案研究，本次调查将评估通过特定方法形成的城市多元化所形成的持续社会关系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

As urban areas typically tend to be home to heterogenous populations, research on cities has led urban studies scholars to strongly theorize that the intersecting and conflicting categories through which urban sociality emerges are also central to the formation of public life. As witnessed in many cities across the United States, these encounters and interactions both across and within social categories of difference are not without their deeply political stakes. The ways in which people encounter each other are in part determined by how this diversity is managed by the state, especially with regards to how urban space is planned. This project, which trains a graduate student in scientific methods of data collection and analysis, aims to understand how everyday relationships between communities are shaped by urban integration strategies. The project would enhance understanding of science and the scientific method by broadly disseminating its findings to organizations, scientists, and government agencies.The research will take place in a historically multiethnic context, where municipal and state authorities have developed a systematic urban planning strategy of integration to manage socioeconomic, cultural, and demographic differences. By interrogating how everyday social relations among demographically and socioeconomically diverse individuals are experienced, how people inhabit and negotiate their own and others’ categories of cultural difference, and how sociodemographic integration shapes ideas about subjectivity, this project utilizes anthropology’s skills in deep, ground level ethnographic engagement to gain a more detailed, practical, and lived understanding of sociocultural encounters and relations. Over twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork combining participant observation, semi-structured interviews, participant mapping exercises, and archival research, this inquiry will evaluate ongoing social relations formed through particular approaches to urban plurality.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.