Doctoral Dissertation Research: Plurality and Managed Integration Strategies in Urban Contexts

由于城市地区通常是异质人口的家园，对城市的研究使城市研究学者强烈地提出这样的理论：城市社会性产生的交叉和冲突的类别也是公共生活形成的核心。正如在美国许多城市所见证的那样，这些不同社会类别之间和内部的相遇和互动并非没有深刻的政治利害关系。人们相遇的方式在一定程度上取决于国家如何管理这种多样性，尤其是如何规划城市空间。该项目旨在培养一名研究生在数据收集和分析方面的科学方法，旨在了解城市一体化战略如何塑造社区之间的日常关系。该项目将通过向各组织、科学家和政府机构广泛传播其发现，增进对科学和科学方法的理解。该研究将在历史上的多民族背景下进行，在那里，市政和州当局已经制定了系统的城市规划战略，以整合管理社会经济，文化和人口差异。通过探究在人口统计学和社会经济上不同的个体之间的日常社会关系是如何经历的，人们如何居住和协商他们自己和他人的文化差异类别，以及社会人口统计学整合如何形成关于主体性的观念，本项目利用人类学在深入的、基层的民族志参与方面的技能，获得对社会文化相遇和关系的更详细、更实用、更生动的理解。在为期12个月的民族志田野调查中，结合了参与者观察、半结构化访谈、参与者测绘练习和档案研究，这项调查将评估通过城市多元化的特定方法形成的持续社会关系。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

As urban areas typically tend to be home to heterogenous populations, research on cities has led urban studies scholars to strongly theorize that the intersecting and conflicting categories through which urban sociality emerges are also central to the formation of public life. As witnessed in many cities across the United States, these encounters and interactions both across and within social categories of difference are not without their deeply political stakes. The ways in which people encounter each other are in part determined by how this diversity is managed by the state, especially with regards to how urban space is planned. This project, which trains a graduate student in scientific methods of data collection and analysis, aims to understand how everyday relationships between communities are shaped by urban integration strategies. The project would enhance understanding of science and the scientific method by broadly disseminating its findings to organizations, scientists, and government agencies.The research will take place in a historically multiethnic context, where municipal and state authorities have developed a systematic urban planning strategy of integration to manage socioeconomic, cultural, and demographic differences. By interrogating how everyday social relations among demographically and socioeconomically diverse individuals are experienced, how people inhabit and negotiate their own and others’ categories of cultural difference, and how sociodemographic integration shapes ideas about subjectivity, this project utilizes anthropology’s skills in deep, ground level ethnographic engagement to gain a more detailed, practical, and lived understanding of sociocultural encounters and relations. Over twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork combining participant observation, semi-structured interviews, participant mapping exercises, and archival research, this inquiry will evaluate ongoing social relations formed through particular approaches to urban plurality.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.