Doctoral Dissertation Research: Globalization, Gender and Inequality in Rural Greece

0211303本研究项目关注的是希腊农业社区在过去二十年中发生的有关劳工社会组织的变化。自上世纪80年代初以来，S的希腊农业越来越依赖于移民劳动力。与此同时，在希腊村庄自给自足的经济中，妇女传统上是重要的劳动力来源，现在越来越多地融入正规经济。这两个事态发展反映了希腊日益融入跨国和全球交流网络，特别是自希腊加入欧洲联盟以来，而且经常被认为是希腊农村的现代化和民主化。然而，这些发展也代表了社会不平等从以性别和亲属关系为中心的旧话语框架向以种族和公民身份为中心的新话语的根本性转变。这项研究项目将考察希腊农村社区中关于不平等的话语的变化，因为它已经从依赖性别、亲属组织的劳动力转变为移民劳动力。运用参与观察和语篇分析的方法，学生将绘制出性别和国家意识形态的构建与农业劳动力动员之间的关系。学生将收集有关人们如何看待不平等以及社会分层是如何组织的数据，以揭示社会不平等在地方一级重现的过程。该项目将促进我们对当代全球化进程及其对当地社会组织的影响的了解。它还将增进我们对性别和族裔在地中海社会组织中的作用的理解。

0211303SiderThis research project focuses on changes that have occurred over the last two decades concerning the social organization of labor in agricultural communities of Greece. Since the early 1980's Greek agriculture has become increasingly dependent on immigrant labor. At the same time women, who were traditionally an important source of labor in the subsistence economies of Greek villages, have been increasingly incorporated into the formal economy. Both these developments reflect the growing integration of Greece into transnational and global networks of exchange, particularly since its entry into the European Union, and have often been represented as the modernization and democratization of the Greek countryside. However, these developments also represent a fundamental transformation in the reproduction of social inequality from an older discursive framework centered on gender and kinship to a newer discourse centered on ethnicity and citizenship. This research project will examine shifting discourses of inequality in a rural Greek community as it has changed from a dependence on gendered, kin-organized labor to immigrant labor. Using methods of participant-observation and discourse analysis, the student will map out the relationship between the construction of gender and national ideologies and the mobilization of agricultural labor. The student will collect data both on how people think about inequality and on how social stratification is organized in order to uncover the processes by which social inequality is being reproduced at the local level. The project will advance our understanding of contemporary processes of globalization and their implications for local social organization. It will also advance our understanding of the roles of gender and ethnicity in Mediterranean social organization.