| 项目编号: | 1417707
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| 项目名称: | Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: A research study of local economies and decision making in Kamchatka, Russia. |
| 作者: | David Koester
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| 承担单位: | University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
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| 批准年: | 2014
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| 开始日期: | 2015-07-01
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| 结束日期: | 2018-06-30
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| 资助金额: | USD29994
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Geosciences - Polar
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| 英文关键词: | snow-machine
; environmental implication
; project
; kamchatka
; addition
; decision
; salmon
; economy
; transportation
; travel strategy
; decision-making
; kamchatka russia
; local history
; social significance
; doctoral dissertation research project
; social policy
; century local decision-making
; social scientist
; next generation
; global impact
; political economy
; rural community
; snow machine use
; salmon roe
; traditional mode
; contemporary local decision-making
; post-soviet era globalization
; snow machine
; dog
; cultural effect
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| 英文摘要: | This award supports a doctoral dissertation research project that investigates the social and cultural effects of Post Soviet economic policies on indigenous communities in Kamchatka Russia. By comparing traditional modes of transportation (the dog sled) with the Soviet subsidized mode of transportation (the snow machine) the researcher will examine how policies made in Moscow and enforced in Kamchatka had an effect on contemporary local decision-making and the economies of indigenous communities. The project has the potential to increase our understanding of how 20th Century federal economic and social policies affect the trajectory of 21st Century local decision-making in a rapidly changing and globalizing economy. In addition, this project will contribute to the training of the next generation of social scientists.
The research will compare the social, cultural, economic, and environmental implications of the choice between 'dogs vs. snow-machines' in subsistence and travel strategies by indigenous people. Combining local histories with larger global impacts to identify the meaning and decision making processes that led to a decline in the use of sled dogs as a mode of transportation concurrent with the rise in snow machine use in rural communities and to their return as fossil fuel costs rise. This project focuses on the socio-cultural and environmental implications of the choice between 'dogs vs. snow-machines' in subsistence and travel strategies in Kamchatka. The layers of social significance attached to these decisions is further emphasized by the fact that salmon is the "fuel" that powers both of those technologies. Salmon has two profoundly different uses in this regard: one as the protein/energy source ingested by dogs and the other as a commodity, where salmon roe is used to pay for fuel (often wasting the flesh). This project will increase knowledge in the field of anthropology on northern communities and the political economy of Post-Soviet era globalization. In addition, it will create a culture history of dog sledding in the north. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/94155
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
气候减缓与适应
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David Koester. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: A research study of local economies and decision making in Kamchatka, Russia.. 2014-01-01.
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