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

博士论文研究：水利基础设施管理中的合作与逆境影响因素

• 批准号: 2049460
• 负责人: David Nugent
• 金额: $ 2.44万
• 依托单位: Emory University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-15 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049460&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Factors; Influencing

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.

这项研究研究了在资源稀缺和人口流离失所的背景下有助​​于合作或逆境的力量。尽管人口流离失所通常被认为是在宿主环境中导致紧张的造成张力，但较少了解的是促进合作和团结的条件，尤其是在旷日持久的流离失所和共享住所的情况下。这项论文研究通过研究公共水基础设施的作用，例如公共水龙头，水车运送和井来促进各种社会，宗教和经济背景的居民之间的紧张局势来解决这些问题。除了支持博士生的培训外，该项目的发现还将与组织，开发从业人员和政策专家共享。本博士学位论文项目还研究了影响获得水和公共水基础设施的因素。该项目比较了两个地区：一个以公民居民的人口合作和团结为标志，另一个以持续的张力为标志。这两个地区都包含类似的公共水基础设施，这些基础设施是公民和难民居民的常规收集地点。因此，该项目研究了对基础设施的共同依赖如何使合作关系。除了研究居民的社会世界如何构想他们的相遇外，该项目还探讨了基础设施的破坏，修复和忽略重新配置社会关系。采用人种学研究方法，包括参与者观察，访谈和档案研究，以及监督基础设施的非政府参与者。这项研究通过更好地理解公共基础设施在调解和重新建立合作和冲突社会关系中的作用来促进当代社会科学和人类学。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估来支持的。