Doctoral Dissertation Research: Factors Influencing Disproportionality in Land Dispossession

博士论文研究：影响土地征用比例失调的因素

• 批准号: 2342547
• 负责人: Paulla Ebron
• 金额: $ 3.2万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2342547&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Factors; Influencing

This doctoral dissertation research project contributes to understandings of the relationship between title, property, and land dispossession in anthropological science and sociolegal studies. The research centers on the dynamic interplay between bureaucratic institutions, legal advocates, and landowners in defining and redefining the legal boundaries of property ownership. Land dispossession is contributing significantly to vast economic inequity and instability, particularly for marginalized landowners. The project aims to expand understandings of how socioeconomic inequalities and property are intertwined with socio-political and economic mobility. In addition to training a graduate student in scientific data collection and analysis, this research sheds light on contemporary legal and political challenges landowners face in the United States and broadens studies on the phenomena of land grabbing in diverse social contexts. Findings and data from this project are being disseminated to academic and non-academic audiences. The research questions are: (1) What are the categories of property ownership? (2) Do specific forms of property ownership create an increased risk of dispossession for marginalized landowners? (3) In what ways are state and local bureaucratic systems intertwined with local private and public infrastructure projects that may facilitate land loss (4) What strategies do vulnerable landowners engage in to avoid dispossession and reclaim lands lost to dispossession? and (5) How do land and property ownership factor into understandings of citizenship and belonging? The project specifically explores the layers of complexity surrounding land dispossession through a range of ethnographic and sociolegal research methods, including participant observation, legal archival searches of land deeds, sociohistorical analyses of legal terminology, and the tracking of legal disputes. The project contributes to broader discussions on citizenship, rights, and belonging. Examining legal classifications may reveal contributing factors that disproportionately contribute to an increase in land loss for some landowners.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.

这个博士学位论文研究项目有助于理解人类学科学和社会研究中的所有权，财产和土地剥夺之间的关系。研究集中在官僚机构，法律倡导者和土地所有者之间的动态相互作用，以定义和重新定义财产所有权的法律界限。土地剥夺极大地促进了巨大的经济不平等和不稳定，特别是对边缘化的土地所有者。该项目旨在扩大人们对社会经济不平等和财产如何与社会政治和经济流动性交织在一起的理解。除了培训科学数据收集和分析的研究生外，这项研究还阐明了土地所有者在美国面临的当代法律和政治挑战，并扩大了有关各种社会环境中土地现象的研究。该项目的发现和数据已被传播到学术和非学术受众。研究问题是：（1）财产所有权的类别是什么？ （2）特定形式的财产所有权是否会增加边缘化土地所有者剥夺的风险？ （3）州和地方官僚制度与当地的私人和公共基础设施可能促进土地损失的方式交织在一起（4）脆弱的土地所有者参与哪些策略，以避免剥夺和收回因剥夺而丧失的土地？ （5）土地和财产所有权如何了解公民身份和归属的理解？该项目专门探讨了通过各种民族志和社会研究方法的围绕土地侵犯的复杂性层次，包括参与者观察，土地契据的法律档案搜索，法律术语的社会历史分析以及法律辩论的跟踪。该项目有助于就公民身份，权利和归属感进行更广泛的讨论。检查法律分类可能会揭示因某些土地所有者的土地损失增加而导致土地损失增加的因素。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来支持。