CAREER: Kinship, Community, and Alternative Networks of Care in Contexts of Precarity

在社会孤立时期，社会关系的重要性得到了极大的体现，特别是对于那些经历生物医学、环境和公共动荡的边缘化社区。随着社区在全球流行病和社会动荡中适应不确定性，我们必须问一问，在社会破裂之后会出现什么新的文化形式。该项目将研究如何在边缘化社区内建立替代性护理网络，以及当社会孤立、不稳定和动荡加剧时，这些网络是否会发生变化。该项目提供资金，培训研究生和本科生掌握经验科学数据收集和分析方法，并大大有助于扩大历来在科学领域代表性不足的群体的参与。它还通过促进大学和当地社区之间的研究合作来建立科学基础设施和能力，并通过在一系列公共环境中提供研究结果来提高公众的科学素养和科学方法。在教师早期职业发展（CAREER）奖的支持下，研究人员将进行多阶段，纵向项目，探讨非裔美国人如何在迅速变化的社会、物质和政治格局中创造和驾驭空间。研究的问题将包括：什么是亲属关系，种族和物理空间之间的关系？边缘化的个体如何在边缘化的背景下建立人际联系、社会性和亲属关系的物理空间？物理空间如何产生或改变亲属关系？该研究将分三个阶段展开，包括档案方法，摄影和社区地图。该项目将推进关于人类社会差异和联系、当代城市生活、不平等与合作的结构以及危机和不稳定时期亲属关系形成的科学知识。该项目有助于种族化，社会组织，空间分析和城市社会不平等的理论。该研究将与一个为期三年的社区为基础的本科课程，这将培养代际导师通过合作研究和技能共享。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

In times of social isolation, the importance of social relations comes into sharp relief, particularly for marginalized communities who experience biomedical, environmental, and public upheaval. As communities adapt to uncertainty amid a global pandemic and societal unrest, it is imperative to ask what new cultural forms will arise in the wake of social rupture. This project will examine how alternative networks of care are forged within marginalized communities, and whether they are transformed when stressed by heightened social isolation, precarity, and unrest. The project provides funding for the training of both graduate and undergraduate students in methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, and contributes significantly to broadening the participation of groups historically underrepresented in science. It also builds scientific infrastructure and capacity through the fostering of research collaboration between universities and local communities, and increases public literacy of science and the scientific method by making findings accessible within a range of public settings.With the support of a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the researcher will conduct a multi-phase, longitudinal project that explores how African Americans create and navigate space within rapidly changing social, physical, and political landscapes. Research questions addressed will include: What is the relationship between kinship, race, and physical space? How do marginalized individuals build physical spaces of interpersonal connection, sociality, and kinship within a context of marginalization? How might physical spaces produce or transform kinship? The research will unfold in three-phased design that includes archival methods, photography, and community mapping. This project will advance scientific knowledge about human social difference and connection, contemporary urban life, structures of inequality and cooperation, and kinship formation in times of crisis and precarity. The project contributes to theories of racialization, social organization, spatial analysis, and urban social inequality. The research will be paired with a three-year community-based undergraduate curriculum, which will cultivate intergenerational mentorship through collaborative research and skill-sharing.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.