Doctoral Dissertation Research: The effects of modernization on regulation of the transportation industry

博士论文研究：现代化对交通运输业监管的影响

• 批准号: 2314791
• 负责人: David Nugent
• 金额: $ 1.62万
• 依托单位: Emory University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314791&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; effects; modernization

Transportation is a central target for infrastructural development in urban contexts. Numerous factors determine whether a given form of transportation is deemed appropriate. Regulation of the transportation industry reflects incompletely overlapping priorities from individuals involved in the transportation sector, regulatory bodies, and others. This doctoral dissertation research project investigates how different cultural and regulatory contexts lead to different infrastructural outcomes in urban contexts that share the aim of becoming more modern, yet differ in the means of achieving modernization. It tests scientific cultural anthropological theories in political anthropology to understand how historical differences in cities' histories interact with overlapping goals of modernization to generate different infrastructural outcomes. The project trains a graduate student in scientific cultural anthropological theories and methods and disseminates its findings broadly to academic and non-academic audiences. This comparative project helps understand the conditions that variously promote or limit the development of modernization projects in urban contexts. Specifically, it uses mixed methods, including interviews, transect rides, and document analysis to examine questions surrounding 1) how understandings of transportation infrastructure affect governance in different areas; 2) how individuals involved in the transportation sector respond to different governance structures; and 3) how individuals and officials negotiate their perspectives to determine how transportation infrastructure is ultimately shaped. It does so in contexts with different regulatory histories to understand how governance structures affect these negotiations. This doctoral dissertation research project uses a nuanced lens to shed light on how various actors with incompletely overlapping motivations negotiate infrastructural developments in modernizing cities.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.

运输是城市环境中基础设施发展的核心目标。许多因素决定了给定的运输形式是否合适。运输行业的监管反映了参与运输部门，监管机构等人的个人的重叠优先级。该博士学位论文研究项目研究了不同的文化和监管环境如何导致城市环境中不同的基础设施成果，这些基础设施成果具有更现代的目标，但在实现现代化的手段上有所不同。它测试了政治人类学中的科学文化人类学理论，以了解城市历史的历史差异如何与现代化重叠目标相互作用，从而产生不同的基础设施成果。该项目训练科学文化人类学理论和方法的研究生，并将其发现广泛地传播给学术和非学术受众。这个比较项目有助于了解在城市环境下各种促进或限制现代化项目发展的条件。具体而言，它使用混合方法，包括访谈，横断面和文档分析来研究围绕的问题1）对运输基础设施的理解如何影响不同领域的治理； 2）参与运输部门的个人如何应对不同的治理结构； 3）个人和官员如何谈判他们的观点，以确定运输基础设施最终如何塑造。它在具有不同监管历史的环境中这样做，以了解治理结构如何影响这些谈判。该博士学位论文研究项目使用细微的镜头来阐明如何在现代化城市中谈判基础设施发展的各种参与者如何谈判基础设施发展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响审查Criteria，它被认为是值得通过评估的支持。