Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Legacies of Colonial Dislocation and Resettlement

使用地貌资本的概念-劳动力对土地持久改善和持续维护的累积投资-这项研究考察了传统殖民社区如何应对传统聚落模式的被迫变化。这群人首先被要求放弃一个长期占领的家园，然后被重新安置在集中的村庄。然而，在重新安置之后，在某些情况下，团体成员重新开垦了传统地区。这项研究详细考察了废弃和回收的过程。它问，一些灌溉和农田系统(而不是其他系统)被废弃的空间和时间模式是什么，而那些后来被重新开垦的系统的空间和时间模式是什么。该小组将使用步行考古调查和卫星遥感图像分析来调查农田和灌溉系统的建设、维护、废弃和开垦。这些方法提供了一个独特的机会，可以从地方层面的案例研究扩大到区域规模的分析。这项研究通过空间综合考古学、遥感和民族史学方法补充了对殖民书面资料的传统分析，这反过来将使人们能够从地方到区域的角度看待殖民大规模重新安置。最终，这项研究将使人们能够更清楚地了解强制重新安置造成的创伤和社区在与已建成的农业景观建立新的关系时的各种形式的弹性。这一奖项反映了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。

Using the concept of landesque capital—the cumulative investments of labor on durable improvements to the land and its continued maintenance—this research examines how a traditional colonized community responded to forced changes in their traditional settlement pattern. First required to abandon a long-occupied homeland the group was resettled in centralized villages. However following resettlement in some cases group members reclaimed traditional areas. This research examines in detail both the abandonment and reclaimation process. It asks, what are the spatial and temporal patterns of the abandonment of some irrigation and field systems (and not others), and what are the spatial and temporal patterns of those that were later reclaimed. The team will use a pedestrian archaeological survey and satellite remote sensing image analysis to investigate the construction, maintenance, abandonment, and reclamation of agricultural field and irrigation systems. These methods provide a unique opportunity to scale up beyond locality-level case studies toward regional scale analysis. The research complements traditional analyses of colonial written sources through a spatially-integrated archaeological, remote sensing, and ethnohistorical approach, which will, in turn, enable locality- to regional-perspectives on colonial mass resettlement. Ultimately, this research will enable a clearer understanding of both the traumas caused by forced resettlement and the varied forms of resilience of communities, as they forged new relationships to their built agricultural landscapes.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.