Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Legacies of Colonial Dislocation and Resettlement

利用景观资本的概念——对土地的持久改善及其持续维护的劳动力累积投资——本研究考察了传统殖民社区如何应对其传统定居模式的被迫变化。首先，这群人被要求放弃长期占领的家园，被重新安置在中央集权的村庄里。然而，在某些情况下，在重新安置之后，群体成员重新占领了传统地区。本研究详细考察了废弃和复垦过程。它提出的问题是，放弃一些灌溉和农田系统（而不是其他）的空间和时间模式是什么，以及后来开垦的空间和时间模式是什么。该小组将利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，从地方层面的案例研究扩大到区域尺度分析。该研究通过空间整合的考古、遥感和民族历史方法补充了对殖民书面资料的传统分析，这反过来又将使殖民大规模安置的地方到区域视角成为可能。最终，这项研究将使人们更清楚地了解被迫重新安置造成的创伤，以及社区在与已建成的农业景观建立新关系时所表现出的各种形式的复原力。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。

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.