Doctoral Dissertation Research: Factors Influencing Cooperation and Adversity in Water Infrastructure Management

这项研究考察了在资源稀缺和人口流离失所的背景下，是什么力量促成了合作或逆境。虽然人口流离失所往往被描述为在这些人口流离失所的东道国造成紧张局势，但人们对促进合作和团结的条件了解较少，特别是在长期流离失所和共同居住的情况下。本论文通过调查公共水龙头、水车和水井等公共供水基础设施在促进不同社会、宗教和经济背景的居民之间的合作或紧张方面所起的作用，来解决这些问题。除了支持博士生的培训，这个项目的发现还将与组织、发展实践者和政策专家分享。这个博士论文项目研究影响获得水的因素和公共水基础设施的维护。这个项目比较了两个地方：一个是公民-流离失所人口合作和团结的地方，另一个是持续紧张的地方。这两个地方都有类似的公共供水基础设施，作为公民和难民居民的例行公事聚集地。因此，这个项目调查了共同依赖基础设施如何能够促进合作关系。除了研究居民的社交世界是如何构成他们的接触的，这个项目还探索了基础设施的故障、修复和疏忽如何重新配置社会关系。采用了民族志研究方法，包括对居民以及监督基础设施的非政府行为者进行参与者观察、访谈和档案研究。这项研究通过更好地理解公共基础设施在调解和重新构建合作和冲突的社会关系中的作用，为当代社会科学和人类学做出了贡献。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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。

This research examines what forces contribute to cooperation or adversity in contexts of resource scarcity and population displacement. While population displacement is often characterized as contributing to tension in the host contexts to where these populations are displaced, less understood are the conditions that promote cooperation and solidarity, especially in circumstances of protracted displacement and shared residence. This dissertation research addresses these questions by investigating the role of communal water infrastructure, such as public water taps, water truck deliveries, and wells, in promoting cooperation, or instigating tension, between residents of various social, religious, and economic backgrounds. In addition to supporting the training of a doctoral student, the findings from this project will be shared with organizations, development practitioners, and policy experts.This doctoral dissertation project examines the factors influencing access to water and the maintenance of communal water infrastructure. This project compares two localities: one marked by citizen-displaced population cooperation and solidarity, and another by continued tension. Both localities contain similar communal water infrastructures which serve as routine gathering sites for both citizen and refugee residents. This project therefore investigates how a shared dependence on infrastructure can enable cooperative relations. In addition to examining how residents' social worlds frame their encounters, this project explores how infrastructure breakdown, repair, and neglect reconfigure social relations. Ethnographic research methods are employed, including participant observation, interviews, and archival research among resident populations, as well as with non-governmental actors who oversee the infrastructure. This research contributes to contemporary social science and anthropology by better understanding the role of communal infrastructure in mediating and reconfiguring cooperative and conflictual social relations.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.