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

虽然2019冠状病毒病大流行带来了一系列法规，加剧了现有的住房紧张局势或产生了新的紧张局势，但已经生活在社会经济困难条件下或因以往灾害的恢复而负担沉重的家庭受到的影响尤其严重。这篇博士论文的重点是灾后资产分配，特别是住房和头衔，不仅要了解人类如何应对灾害和随后的举措，而且要了解他们如何为未来的恢复力创造机制。它试图分析人口统计学上的住房拥有率差异是否会影响灾后社会经济能力、社会关系、决策和个人自主权的结果。COVID-19维度为分析与抵御不同冲击的能力相关的因素提供了难得的机会。除了为培训一名研究生提供资金外，该项目还将通过向参与救灾的组织和决策者广泛传播其研究结果，吸引更广泛的受众。这个民族志项目以连续遭受灾害（一场自然灾害，随后是COVID-19）破坏的三个社区为中心，并获得了不同的灾后支持。灾后住房作为分析宏观层面过程（灾害和后续举措）及其微观层面影响（家庭内部动态）之间交集的场所进行了探索。研究人员将通过参与观察、调查和半结构化访谈来收集数据，以分析a)家庭参与震后活动的程度如何影响家庭的幸福感；b)应对COVID-19和相关法规如何影响家庭内部动态；(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，可以比较地了解在连续的灾难中，家庭和社区内部的社会关系是如何重新配置的。收集到的数据将有助于灾害、家庭和资产的人类学。关注住房和灾害交叉点的社会关系，密切关注COVID-19将加强对流行病社会影响的人类学理解。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。

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.