Ecologically and Transdisciplinarily Inspired Research: Starting Points for Practitioner Research and Sustainable Change

Abstract

This article reports an adventure of collective creating in which learning psychology, sociology, professional learning, managerial and nature thinking came together and enriched the authors’ perspective on the methodology of practice-oriented research. It resulted in the manifestation of two base tunes and six ‘ecologically and transdisciplinarily inspired’ (ETI) research principles. The ETI perspective includes an ecological way of dealing with the social and physical research issues, which means holistic thinking and working and thinking in terms of connectedness. It also means that mono-disciplinary and interdisciplinary scientific and practical thinking need to be ‘transcended’ to deal with practitioner research issues. Other fundamental matters include dealing with wisdom, narratives, and the ecological fallacy; collectively and transdisciplinarily creating knowledge and improved practice with stakeholders, e.g. actors; and being cognitively inspired by nature.     

云南乡村文化发展模式的失衡与调试

乡村文化外生于产业化,基本不按大规模复制的路径发展,其借助现代社会对文化的消费需求,在特定的环境中产生和形成灵活与独特的发展模式。云南乡村蕴含着潜在的巨大的文化生长空间和产业拓展空间,但由于自然环境和社会环境的差别,云南乡村文化产业发展模式既不能照搬城市文化产业的发展,也有别于中东部乡村,必须遵循云南乡村文化生态系统的特征重点发展乡村文化旅游、乡村工艺美术业、乡村休闲娱乐业、乡村文化演出业、乡村节庆文化产业,这些产业将在较长时间内保持一定的稳定性。     

But Where Are “The People”? Unfinished Agendas in The People of Puerto Rico

The People of Puerto Rico is a comprehensive ethnography of major types of rural communities in pre-1950 Puerto Rico but was less successful in reconnecting those localities in a coherent portrayal of the island's social formation. A reexamination of this work's best-known subcultures, Santa Isabel (Sidney Mintz' “Cañamelar”) and Ciales (Eric Wolf's “San José”), offers entry points to these communities, as well as to the key concepts that Mintz and Wolf constructed reciprocally through their research: rural proletarian and peasant, plantation and hacienda. Also present are the too-implicit spatial referents of these concepts—lowland and highland, foreland and hinterland—and their associated crop types, sugar and coffee. In this article, the historical space of Santa Isabel and Ciales will be reconsidered, in part with reference to often-overlooked nuances and caveats in Mintz' and Wolf's chapters. Foregrounding the spatial/ecological referent in “Cañamelar” and “San José” opens our sights to counterpoints between sugar and livestock, and to patterns of highland-lowland migration, kin networks, and social interaction. Familiar concepts take on new meanings as we discern supra-municipal, sub-insular, and intermediate island regions and move closer to specifying historical situations (Mintz) while renewing our theorization (Wolf).     

‘When you have no law you are nothing’: Cane toads,social consequences and management issues

In this article we demonstrate that Yanyuwa people have detailed biological knowledge of their northern Australian environment, which is culturally defined and embedded within their relationships to country, resources and each other. Through a case study of the impact of Bufo marinus (cane toads) on Yanyuwa culture and everyday life, we argue that Aboriginal management strategies and Aboriginal peoples’ intimate knowledge of species and environment need to be understood as both legitimate and fundamental when engaging in management initiatives in Australia. We demonstrate that for Yanyuwa people emotional engagement with their environment is underpinned by a morality of social and environmental relations and that ‘memory’ is pivotal to this engagement. We conclude by briefly delineating how the adoption of a ‘moral ecology’ perspective goes some way to addressing issues pertinent to discursive encounters at cultural management frontiers.     

语言人与语言生态

语言人与语言生态环境唇齿相依。“语言人”作为一个专门术语,已被现代语言学者们广泛使用。作为语用主体的语言人在构建良好的语言生态环境中的作用是无与伦比的。语言人具有极强的可塑性,这种可塑性具有鲜明的特征,表现在：语言生态环境决定语用主体的动态趋向;语言之间的竞争决定语用主体的语用活力;语言生态变异决定语用主体的语用变化。关注语言人的竞争与合作,关注语言人的语言态度等,是语言生态学的一项重要工作。     

农村传媒生态环境建设策略研究——基于吉林省四平地区农村传媒状况的调查分析

信息时代大众传媒高速发展,媒介在社会政治、经济、文化建设中起到了不可替代的作用。在这样的形势下,我国农村大众媒介的接触情况仍不乐观,农村传媒生态的良性发展环境还有待进一步建设。本课题通过对吉林省四平地区农村传媒受众接触情况及传媒环境的抽样调查分析和研究,总结农村传媒生态存在的问题。提出相应对策,有益于优化农村传媒生态,使大众传媒在新农村建设中发挥更大的作用。     

精神生态批评视域下的《沉没之鱼》

生态批评历来是文学批评的一个热点视角,作为其一个分支,精神生态批评近年来也引发了越来越多的关注。谭恩美的小说《沉没之鱼》中,旅行团一行十二名游客,每人身上都带有现代文明人精神生态失衡的各种症状。他们通过东方之旅,在不断亲近、深入原生态自然的过程中,逐渐寻回本真的自我,治愈了各种现代病。东方之旅是一次人与自然的和解之旅,一次现代人的自我疗伤之旅。     

Of other movements: nonhuman mobility in the Anthropocene

ABSTRACT

This article has two broad aims. The first is to treat and write of nonhuman animals and their lives, deaths, and suffering at the hands of humans and human infrastructure as important to theory, politics, and policy. The second is to explore how social theory can think creatively about specific examples in which nonhuman animals are affected by and need more from human infrastructures – especially those built for human mobility. These two broad aims will be narrowed to consider nonhuman animal deaths upon roads, focused on the potential for enriching human and nonhuman animal life through creative thinking, ethically minded road design, and the acknowledgement of shared vulnerability. In pursuit of these aims it will necessarily focus attention on the experience of human mobility on nonhuman animals, forging an approach that keeps an ethics of entanglement and care at the forefront.     

论宋词歌妓传播的媒介生态

应歌时代的宋词以歌妓为传播媒介,歌妓在词的产生、传播和创作中均产生了重要作用。近年来,随着媒介生态学的兴起,把传播媒介看做生命体放在社会大环境下考察,认为媒介并不是机械地进行信息交换,而是不断与社会环境互动,参与到整个传播的全过程中来。歌妓作为一种传播媒介不是中性的、透明的和无价值标准的渠道,只管把宋词的信息从一个地方传递到另一个地方,其生存的社会环境制约、身份的限定等等因素都对宋词的传播产生着影响,其独特的生物特征和符号特征也带来了宋词传播的思想、情感、社会、内容等的偏向,最终产生了独特的宋词文化。