Doctoral Dissertation Research: Successive Disasters, Resilience, and Household Asset Management

博士论文研究：连续灾难、复原力和家庭资产管理

• 批准号: 2049201
• 负责人: Florence Babb
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 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: 2021-02-15 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049201&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Successive; Disasters

While the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a range of regulations that exacerbated existing housing tensions or created new ones, households already living in conditions of socio-economic hardship or burdened by recovery from previous disasters have been particularly affected. This doctoral dissertation focuses on post-disaster asset allocation, specifically on housing and titles, to understand not only how humans respond to disasters and subsequent initiatives, but also how they create mechanisms for future resilience. It seeks to analyze whether demographic differences in homeownership influence outcomes in socio-economic capacity, social relations, decision-making, and personal autonomy after a disaster. The COVID-19 dimension offers a rare opportunity to analyze the factors associated with capacities to withstand different shocks. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student, this project will also engage a wider audience by broadly disseminating its findings to organizations and policymakers invested in disaster relief.This ethnographic project centers on three neighborhoods devastated by successive disasters (a natural disaster, followed by COVID-19), and received differential post-disaster support. Post-disaster housing is explored as a site for analyzing the intersections between macro-level processes (disasters and subsequent initiatives) and their micro-level effects (intra-household dynamics). The researcher will collect data through participant observation, a survey and semi-structured interviews, to analyze a) how has the well-being of households been influenced by their degree of participation in post-earthquake initiatives; b) how does the response to COVID-19 and associated regulations affect intra-household dynamics; and c) how does successive disaster experience affect varied individual capacities and responses to the pandemic. The project offers the opportunity to gain comparative insights into how social relations are reconfigured within households and communities amidst successive disasters. The collected data will contribute to the anthropology of disasters, households, and assets. Focusing on social relations at the intersection of housing and disasters, close attention to COVID-19 will enhance the anthropological understanding of the social impact of epidemics.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.

尽管新冠肺炎疫情带来了一系列监管规定，加剧了现有的住房紧张局势，或造成了新的紧张局势，但已经生活在社会经济困难条件下或因从以前的灾难中恢复而背负着负担的家庭受到的影响尤为严重。这篇博士论文的重点是灾后资产分配，特别是住房和所有权，以了解人类如何应对灾难和随后的倡议，以及他们如何为未来的复原力创造机制。它试图分析住房拥有者的人口结构差异是否会影响灾难发生后社会经济能力、社会关系、决策和个人自主权的结果。新冠肺炎维度提供了一个难得的机会来分析与抵御不同冲击的能力相关的因素。除了为研究生培训提供资金外，该项目还将通过向参与救灾的组织和政策制定者广泛传播其研究结果来吸引更广泛的受众。该民族志项目以三个被连续灾害摧毁的社区为中心(一场自然灾害，紧随其后的是新冠肺炎)，并得到了不同的灾后支持。灾后住房是分析宏观进程(灾害和后续举措)及其微观影响(家庭内部动态)之间的交集的场所。研究人员将通过参与者观察、调查和半结构化访谈收集数据，以分析a)家庭的幸福感如何受到他们对地震后倡议的参与程度的影响；b)对新冠肺炎和相关法规的反应如何影响家庭内部的动态；以及c)连续的灾难经历如何影响不同的个人能力和对大流行病的反应。该项目提供了一个机会，可以比较深入地了解在接连发生的灾难中，家庭和社区内部的社会关系是如何重新配置的。收集的数据将有助于对灾害、家庭和资产的人类学研究。关注住房和灾害交汇处的社会关系，密切关注新冠肺炎将增强人类学对流行病社会影响的理解。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。