Doctoral Dissertation Research: Technologies of Transaction in Moral Economic Framework

博士论文研究：道德经济框架中的交易技术

• 批准号: 2048350
• 负责人: Angela Reyes
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-01 至 2023-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2048350&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Technologies; Transaction

This doctoral dissertation project investigates collaboration between industries that typically operate outside the sphere of traditional finance. It focuses on the financial obstacles encountered by these industries, as well as how alliances among non-traditional industries allow these to be overcome. Specifically, using linguistic and cultural anthropological approaches, the research examines what role digital currency plays in facilitating financial market access among marginalized workers, as well as what beliefs and experiences most directly shape moral and economic notions of value within these transactional spaces. Research findings will be broadly disseminated to professionals, policy makers, and researchers in relevant fields and will include public outreach efforts to support the well-being of marginalized communities. Additionally, the research contributes to the training of a U.S.-based graduate student. Through a combination of in-person and digital ethnographic fieldwork at corporate offices and within the broader community of financially marginal individuals, as well as semiotic, social network, and other methods of data analysis, the project examines the economic, political and ethical motivations of this collaboration as well as its material and symbolic impacts. The researcher will conduct digital archival research to trace the financial and moral discourses that have shaped the margins of the finance industry and conduct interviews with users of alternate forms of financial transaction. The research builds on multiple anthropological literatures to provide a fresh perspective on how moral, monetary, and meaning-making practices interact in the creation and discernment of value.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.

这个博士论文项目研究通常在传统金融领域之外运作的行业之间的合作。它侧重于这些行业所遇到的金融障碍，以及非传统行业之间的联盟如何使这些障碍得以克服。具体而言，使用语言和文化人类学的方法，该研究探讨了数字货币在促进边缘化工人进入金融市场方面发挥的作用，以及哪些信仰和经验最直接地塑造了这些交易空间中的道德和经济价值观。研究结果将广泛传播给相关领域的专业人员、决策者和研究人员，并将包括公共外联工作，以支持边缘化社区的福祉。此外，该研究有助于培训美国-基础研究生。通过在公司办公室和更广泛的经济边缘个人社区内的个人和数字民族志实地考察，以及符号学，社交网络和其他数据分析方法的结合，该项目研究了这种合作的经济，政治和道德动机以及其物质和象征性影响。研究人员将进行数字档案研究，以追踪塑造金融业边缘的金融和道德话语，并与其他形式的金融交易的用户进行访谈。该研究建立在多个人类学文献的基础上，为道德、货币和意义创造实践如何在价值创造和识别中相互作用提供了一个新的视角。该奖项反映了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。