Workshop: A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of Processes of Development and Modernization - Washington, D.C., June 2015

该奖项旨在支持将于2015年6月在华盛顿特区举行的为期两天的跨学科研讨会。该研讨会将把科学、技术和环境历史学家与来自世界各地的区域专家聚集在一起，讨论预先分发的论文。研讨会的最终目的是出版一本编辑过的书。讲习班和本卷的重点将是全球南方国际发展方案的环境方面以及有关技术转让的想法。要解决的问题包括现代化和工业化项目的历史起源和意图，它们对世界欠发达地区农村和城市环境的影响，以及新技术和知识制度给当地生态、生产系统和对自然的文化理解带来的变化。与会者还将考虑新形式的专门知识是如何产生和影响土著知识的，以及新技术如何重新配置空间安排，特别是全球、国家和地方各级之间的关系。研讨会将为参与者的个人研究议程增加洞察力和动力，从而对参与者的合作者和学生的研究产生影响。还将开发一个可公开访问的研讨会网页，使人们可以广泛访问论文摘要、作者联系信息和会议记录摘要。讲习班论文的出版将有助于人们了解和评估这种干预措施的长期影响，以便投资于全球南方的人和机构可以重新考虑他们在这些有可能在未来改善和保护自然景观的地区发展和工业化的方法。

This award is to support a two-day interdisciplinary workshop that is to be held in Washington, DC, in June 2015. The workshop will bring together historians of science, technology, and the environment with regional experts from around the world to discuss pre-circulated papers. The ultimate aim of the workshop is to publish an edited volume. The focus of the workshop and volume will be the environmental dimensions of international development programs in the Global South and the associated ideas of technological transfer. Among the issues and questions to be addressed are the historical origins and intentions of modernization and industrialization projects, their impact in both rural and urban environments in less developed parts of the world, and the changes that new technologies and knowledge regimes brought to local ecologies, production systems, and cultural understandings of nature. Participants will also consider how new forms of expertise were created and affected indigenous knowledge, and how new technologies reconfigured spatial arrangements, particularly the relations between global, national, and local levels. The workshop will add both insight and momentum to the individual research agendas of participants, and thereby have an impact on the research of the collaborators and the students of the participants. A publicly accessible workshop webpage will also be developed that will make widely accessible the essay abstracts, author contact information, and a summary of the conference proceedings. The published volume of workshop papers will help people understand and assess the long-term effects of such interventions, so that people and institutions invested in the Global South might reconsider their approaches to development and industrialization in these regions with the potential to improve and protect natural landscapes in the future.