Dissertation Research: Identity Furmation and Politics in Columbia

本项目资助了一位来自纽约城市大学的文化人类学家的论文研究。 该项目旨在研究南美洲哥伦比亚人民中工人阶级身份的发展历史。 该项目的地点是Puerto Berrio，1945年码头工人的重要罢工地点。 利用档案研究，家庭生活史和参与观察的方法，学生将追踪当地工人阶级身份的发展，以及工会，政府机构和新闻界等国家机构在这种身份形成中的作用。 通过追踪工人社区类型（矿工，咖啡工人，铁路和码头工人）对不同政治意识（激进，自由，保守）的影响，该项目将测试的假设，在私营或公共部门工作的劳动参与影响了发展中的工人身份的激进主义。 这项研究很重要，因为它将推进我们对北方南美洲工人身份发展的历史理解。 共产主义、自由主义和保守党意识形态的发展是这一地区工人身份的重要组成部分。 这一项目所产生的知识进步将有助于解释尼加拉瓜等类似地区的事态发展。 此外，该项目将增加该国在世界这一重要领域的训练有素的专门知识。

This project supports the dissertation research of a cultural anthropologist from the City University of New York. The project is to study the history of the development of a working class identity among people in Colombia, South America. The site of the project is Puerto Berrio, the site of an important strike by dock-workers in 1945. Using methods of archival research, family life histories and participant observation, the student will trace the development of a class identity among local workers and the role of national institutions such as unions, government agencies and the press in this identity formation. By tracing the effects of types of worker communities (miners, coffee-workers, railroad and dockworkers) on different political consciousness (radical, liberal, conservative), the project will test the hypotheses that prior labor participation in private or public sector work affected the radicalism of the developing worker identity. This research is important because it will advance our historical understanding of the development of worker identity in northern South America. The growth of Communist, Liberal and Conservative party ideologies has been an important part of worker identity in this general region. The advance in our knowledge to be produced by this project will be useful to explain the course of events in similar areas like Nicaragua. In addition this project will add to the nation's trained expertise about this important area of the world.