Doctoral Dissertation Research: Community Engagement and Land-Use Regulation

该项目的目标是确定社区对城市发展和旅游目的地建设施加影响的社会过程。它专门调查了当地居民如何参与土地使用法规，并在努力行使其利益时主张独特的文化框架。该研究采用定性案例研究，研究了夏威夷州三个有争议的旅游开发地点，其中社区成员成功地停止或延缓了项目，或从开发商那里获得了重大让步。为了进行分析对比，将审查第四个地点，在那里，社区影响大型沿海度假胜地综合开发的努力基本上是不成功的。数据将从公共记录、报纸、个人采访和现有的视频片段中收集。夏威夷旅游驱动型城市化的首要地位使其成为产生理论的有用案例。夏威夷异常密集和健全的土地使用监管体系也使其成为揭示围绕城市增长监管的社会斗争的重要研究地点。最后，本项目旨在将文化社会学的概念引入城市政治学和城市社会学的交叉讨论中。这项研究将产生几个更广泛的影响，包括通过对夏威夷自1980年以来独特的土地使用监管制度的首次系统调查，为夏威夷及其他地区的政策辩论提供经验基础。研究成果将通过会议演讲、社区小组会议和直接向社区领导人和政府官员分发章节的方式与多学科听众分享。该项目将帮助社区组织者、研究人员和政策制定者更好地了解旅游和城市发展所涉及的利害关系和社会斗争。研究结果也可为规划人员和政府官员提供关于如何将社区关切纳入旅游发展的实际经验。

The goal of this project is to identify the social processes through which communities exert leverage over urban development and the construction of tourism destinations. It specifically investigates how local residents engage with land-use regulations and assert distinctive cultural frameworks in efforts to exercise their interests. The research employs qualitative case studies of three contested tourism-development sites in the state of Hawaii in which community members successfully halted or slowed projects, or obtained significant concessions from developers. For analytical contrast, a fourth site will be examined in which community efforts to influence the development of a large coastal resort complex were largely unsuccessful. Data will be gathered from public records, newspapers, personal interviews, and existing video footage. The primacy of tourism-driven urbanization in Hawaii makes it a useful case for generating theory. Hawaii's unusually dense and robust land-use regulatory system also make it an important study site for revealing the social struggles surrounding urban growth regulation. Finally, this project aims to bring concepts from cultural sociology to bear on debates at the intersection of urban politics and urban sociology. This research will generate several broader impacts, including providing an empirical basis to inform policy debates in Hawaii and beyond through the first systematic investigation of Hawaii's unique land-use regulatory system since 1980. Results will be shared with multi-disciplinary audiences through conference presentations, community group meetings, and direct distribution of chapters to community leaders and public officials. This project will help community organizers, researchers, and policy-makers better understand the stakes and social struggles involved in tourism and urban development. Research results may also provide practical lessons to planners and public officials about how to incorporate community concerns into tourism-development.