Dissertation Research: Nationalism and the Ecology Movement in Slovakia

9412715 Hayden本项目涉及匹兹堡大学文化人类学研究生的论文研究。该学生将对斯洛伐克从国家社会主义向民族独立过渡期间斯洛伐克生态运动的发展进行文化分析。通过参与观察、半结构化访谈、档案研究和对几个生态组织的个人调查，学生将追踪意识形态的发展，以及这些组织在斯洛伐克首都布拉迪斯拉发以及几个区域中心的社会和政治性质。这个项目很重要，因为它增加了美国对世界上一个至关重要的部分——东欧前共产主义国家的专业知识。此外，要分析的信息将说明一个重要的社会变化正在发生，因为人们重新定义什么是“家园”的意义，从纯粹的民族主义的定义，以反映新出现的环保主义者的利益。＊＊＊

9412715 Hayden This project involves the dissertation research of a graduate student in cultural anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh. The student will provide a cultural analysis of the development of the Slovak ecology movement during Slovakia's transition from state socialism to national independence. Using participant observation, semi- structured interviews, archival research and a survey of individuals in several ecology organizations, the student will trace the development of the ideology as well as the social and political nature of these organizations in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, as well as in several regional centers. This project is important because it adds to the nation's expertise about a critically important part of the world, the former communist states of Eastern Europe. In addition the information to be analyzed will illustrate an important social change going on, as people redefine what the "Homeland" means from purely a nationalist definition to reflect newly emerged environmentalist interests. ***