Doctoral Dissertation Research: (Re)Producing the Citizenry: Reproduction, Social Fragmentation, and State-Building

ES-1407731丹尼斯·霍根·维姆·哈穆德布朗大学在持续的民族冲突背景下，更大的社会经济变化和国家生育行为政策如何影响生育决定和行为？这项研究考察了国家和地方一级的体制变革如何在社会群体层面和个人生命过程中影响生育和家庭形成的社会过程。研究人员将研究巴勒斯坦的情况，重点研究巴勒斯坦准国家的建立和演变以及这些地区的社会经济变化如何影响生殖。虽然极高的巴勒斯坦生育率一直是学术文献和新闻媒体的突出特点，但在建国时代，生育率大幅下降，这是由于签署了奥斯陆和平协定而开启的。该项目的重点是巴勒斯坦被占领土上的国家建设与生殖习俗之间的关系。这项研究探讨了建国时代公民社会和公民生活状况的变化，以及这些变化对生殖和家庭形成的影响，以及嵌入独特背景下的社会过程。通过阐明国家建设和生殖实践之间的联系，这项研究有助于更广泛地理解家庭的形成和生殖，以及国家转型和生殖是如何联系在一起的。研究人员采用了两阶段混合方法，其中包括对区域和次区域生育率的二次分析，以及比较民族志。将分析来自各种来源的二手量化数据，以提供生育率随时间变化的宏观情况，并通过比较人种学分析生育率趋势以及生殖做法的结构和人口特征的变化，这些项目超越了对生殖结果的审查，并有助于了解生活经验、生殖的意义以及社会和国家变革影响生殖做法的机制。该项目扩展了生育行为的人口统计学理论，并开发了一个在冲突背景下理解生育行为的概念框架。更广泛的影响这项研究产生了关于生殖保健提供的信息，这些信息对处于持续冲突的国家的生殖健康规定和需求具有政策影响。该项目将结合各种数据集，将人口和健康数据与经济和地理数据联系起来，以便对人口和健康结果进行更丰富的分析。该项目还将扩大巴勒斯坦研究人员和美国同行之间的合作。

SES-1407731 Dennis HoganWeeam HammoudehBrown UniversityHow are reproductive decisions and behavior impacted by larger socioeconomic changes and state policies on fertility behavior within the context of ongoing national conflict? This study examines ways in which institutional transformations at the national and local level impact the social processes of reproduction and family formation both at the level of social group and over the individual life course. The researchers will study the case of Palestine, focusing on how the creation and evolution of the Palestinian quasi-state and socioeconomic change in these areas affect reproduction. While exceptionally high Palestinian fertility has been featured prominently in the academic literature and news press, dramatic drops in fertility have been noted in the state building era, which was ushered in by the signing of the Oslo peace accords. This project focuses on the relationship between state building and reproductive practices in the occupied Palestinian territory. The study addresses the changing conditions of social and civic life for citizens in the state-building era and the impact of these on reproduction and family formation, social processes embedded in a unique context. Through illuminating the link between state building and reproductive practices, the research contributes more broadly to understanding of family formation and reproduction and how national transformations and reproduction are connected. The researchers employ a two-staged mixed-methods approach that includes secondary analysis of regional and sub-regional fertility rates, and a comparative ethnography. Secondary quantitative data from a variety of sources will be analyzed in order to provide a macro-level portrait of fertility trends over time as well as to analyze changes in fertility trends and structural and population characteristics on the reproductive practices Through comparative ethnography, the projects goes beyond an examination of reproductive outcomes and towards an understanding of the lived experience, meanings attached to reproduction, and the mechanisms by which social and national transformations impact reproductive practices. This project expands demographic theory of fertility behavior and develops a conceptual framework for understanding fertility behavior within the context of conflict settings. Broader ImpactsThe study generates information on reproductive health care delivery that has policy implications on reproductive health provisions and needs in nations with ongoing conflicts. The project will combine various datasets linking demographic and health data with economic and geographic data allowing for richer analyses of demographic and health outcomes. The project will also expand collaborations between Palestinian researchers and US counterparts.