Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Legacies of Colonial Dislocation and Resettlement

运用土地资本的概念--劳动力对土地的持久改善和持续维护的累积投资--本研究考察了一个传统的殖民社区如何应对他们传统定居模式的被迫改变。 首先，他们被要求放弃长期占领的家园，重新安置在集中的村庄。然而，在某些情况下，在重新安置之后，群体成员重新占据了传统地区。本研究详细考察了废弃和回收过程。它问，什么是空间和时间模式的放弃一些灌溉和田间系统（而不是其他），以及什么是空间和时间模式的那些后来被开垦。该团队将使用行人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，以扩大超越地方层面的案例研究，对区域规模的分析。该研究通过空间整合的考古，遥感和民族史学方法补充了传统的殖民书面资料分析，这反过来又使殖民地大规模重新安置的地方到区域的观点。最终，这项研究将使人们能够更清楚地了解强迫移民造成的创伤和社区的各种形式的恢复力，因为他们与他们建造的农业景观建立了新的关系。这个奖项反映了NSF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.