Catching the Wave of Capitalism in the Wake of the Nuclear Age: Subsistence, Development, and Environmental Security in French Polynesia

该奖项为博士后研究和培训的学生提供奖学金支持。这位学生提出的研究项目名为《在核时代的觉醒中赶上资本主义浪潮：法属波利尼西亚的生存、发展和环境安全》。这项研究认为，多边环境治理导致了环境退化，因为它没有认识到当地资源使用者和政治在保护和退化过程中的关键作用。特别是，这项研究侧重于莫雷亚和莱亚特亚的自给性捕鱼，主要由泻湖的妇女进行，并在当地饮食中提供高达70%的动物蛋白。论文认为，最近渔业、农业和旅游业的加剧导致妇女自给性捕捞被边缘化，资源日益稀缺，可持续海洋资源管理做法崩溃，以及新形式的地方和区域环境冲突。实地考察方法包括：与渔民(男性、女性、商业和自给自足)进行访谈和参与观察，以了解海洋资源政治的性质和层面；设计和建设地理信息系统，分析和绘制各种相互矛盾的个人、国家和机构对海洋空间和利用的看法；进行档案研究，以确定殖民时期的性别态度如何塑造妇女在波利尼西亚政治经济中的作用。从理论上讲，这项研究涉及并扩展了关于环境安全、性别和环境以及地理信息科学的社会影响的辩论。

This award provides fellowship support to a student for post-doctoral research and training. The student's proposed research project is entitled `Catching the Wave of Capitalism in the Wake of the Nuclear Age: Subsistence, Development, and Environmental Security in French Polynesia.` This study argues that multilateral environmental governance precipitates environmental degradation by failing to recognize the critical role of local resource users and politics in processes of conservation and degradation. In particular, this study focuses on subsistence fishing in Moorea and Raiatea, which is primarily performed by women in lagoons, and provides up to 70 percent of animal protein in the local diet. The thesis is that the recent intensification of fishing, agriculture and tourism results in the marginalization of women's subsistence fishing, increasing scarcity of resources, a breakdown in sustainable marine resource management practices, and new forms of local and regional environmental conflicts. Fieldwork methods include: interviews and participant observation with fishers (men, women, commercial and subsistence) to understand the nature and dimensions of marine resource politics; the design and construction of a Geographic Information System (GIS) which analyzes and maps a variety of conflicting individual, state, and institutional perceptions of marine space and use; and the archival research to determine how the role of women in Polynesian political economy has been shaped by colonial attitudes on gender. Theoretically, this study engages and expands the debates over environmental security, gender, and the environment, and the social implications of Geographic Information Science.