Doctoral Dissertation Resarch: Alternative Power: Culture, Politics, and Development on the Navajo Nation

研究生达纳·E·鲍威尔将在多萝西·C·霍兰德博士的指导下，对纳瓦霍保留地追求替代能源发展的社会后果进行研究。这项研究将集中在四个主要研究领域，S研究员的前期工作确定为新旧能源技术比较的重点领域。这四个研究领域是：社会和经济网络；生产规模；文化意义；以及时间框架(特别是现在和未来之间的权衡)。她将采用多方法研究策略。她的方法将包括半结构化访谈；近期能源储备发展史上关键人物的生活史叙述；参与者观察；以及档案和公共文件的内容分析。这项研究很重要，因为很少有研究在当代美洲原住民的背景下审查发展的偶然性，或探索发展项目如何产生新的身份、知识和对未来的历史特定主张。在全球日益关注能源技术未来的背景下，拟议的项目探索了这一在很大程度上未得到充分研究的地理和概念领域。这项研究还将对社会科学家的教育做出重大贡献。

Graduate student Dana E. Powell, supervised by Dr. Dorothy C. Holland, will undertake research on the social consequences of the pursuit of alternative energy development on the Navajo Reservation. The research will focus on four primary research areas, determined in the researcher''s preliminary work to be salient areas for comparison between older and newer energy technologies. The four research areas are: social and economic networks; production scales; cultural significance; and temporal framing (particularly, trade-offs between present and future).She will employ a multi-method research strategy. Her methodologies will include semi-structured interviews; life history narratives from key figures in the recent history of reservation energy development; participant observation; and content analysis of archival and public documents. The research is important because few studies have examined the contingencies of development in the context of contemporary Native America or explored how development projects generate new identities, knowledges, and historically particular claims on the future. The proposed project explores this largely understudied geographic and conceptual domain, within the context of mounting global concern over the future of energy technologies. The research also will contribute significantly to the education of a social scientist.