EAGER: Assessing Comparative Research of Social Coordination on Russian Arctic Gas Development

这个EAGER项目探讨了PI亚瑟梅森利用北美能源公司的数据开发的一种新的社会协调概念模型是否可以有效地识别新的创新形式，以评估俄罗斯北极天然气开发的不确定性。PI亚瑟梅森（Arthur Mason）在组织人类学方面的研究阐明了北美能源公司在文化上定义美国和加拿大北极天然气开发中的不确定性的方式;这些方式包括（1）依赖于重新定义的政府和行业之间的关系;（2）依赖于顾问专业知识;（3）依赖于催化对风险的感知的未来描述。PI的理论认为，这三种背景在政府和行业领导者之间建立了“解释社区”，以了解行业如何运作，从而对社会生产、控制、分配和使用北极能源资源的方式产生影响。为了让PI在北极地区验证他的“解释社区”假设，有必要在俄罗斯能源公司中获得并探索这些想法。 该EAGER项目将促进（1）确定获得俄罗斯北极天然气开发的书面经验数据，包括技术转让历史，能源需求预测，能源政策，市场一体化和自由化（2）确定获得俄罗斯政府官员，行业领袖，社区利益相关者和学术机构之间的合作和实地研究机会。该研究解决了我们这个时代的一个主要形成力量，能源市场的政治，以及新兴的跨国专业知识网络如何参与影响能源部门发展的想象未来的构成。该研究项目将潜在地确定将核心人类学理论和方法应用于通常与其他学科相关的新的和具有挑战性的研究领域的有效性。

This EAGER project explores whether a new conceptual model of social coordination, developed by PI Arthur Mason using data from North American energy companies, can effectively identify new forms of innovation for assessing uncertainty in Russian arctic natural gas development. Previous research in organizational anthropology by PI Arthur Mason illuminates the ways in which North American energy companies culturally define uncertainty in U.S. and Canadian arctic natural gas development; these include (1) reliance on redefined relations between government and industry; (2) reliance on consultant expertise; (3) reliance on future descriptions that catalyze perceptions about risk. The PI theorizes that these three contexts establish "communities of interpretation" among government and industry leaders for how industry operates and thus have implications for the way society will produce, control, allocate and use arctic energy resources.In order for the PI to test his hypothesis of "communities of interpretation" across the Arctic there is the need to gain access and explore these ideas among Russian energy companies. This EAGER project will facilitate (1) identifying access to written empirical data on Russian arctic natural gas development, including history of technology transfers, energy demand forecasting, energy policy, market integration and liberalization (2) identifying access to collaborative and field research opportunities in Russia among government officials, industry leaders, community stakeholders and academic institutions. The research addresses a major formative force of our time, the politics of energy markets, and the way emerging transnational networks of expertise are embroiled in the constitution of imagined futures that impact on developments in the energy sector. The research project will potentially determine the effectiveness of applying core anthropological theories and methods to new and challenging research fields often associated with other disciplines.