How the Nonhuman World Influences Homeowner Yard Management in the American Residential Macrosystem
How the Nonhuman World Influences Homeowner Yard Management in the American Residential Macrosystem
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DOI：
10.1007/s10745-020-00164-2
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发表时间：
2020-06-23
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2
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Groffman, Peter M.
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Engebretson, Jesse M.;Nelson, Kristen C.;Groffman, Peter M.
虽然庭院是社会和物质景观的混合体，但许多社会科学研究强调社会文化因素，而大多忽视了植物、动物和非生物物质世界对房主决策的潜在重要影响。通过对美国六个大都市地区的采访，我们调查了住宅庭院的非人类环境被认为影响房主与庭院的关系和规划的方式。我们发现，非人类动态建立了庭院相关决策的边界，房主将他们与庭院非人类环境的关系描述为合作、对立和可协商。我们呼吁城市空间的社会科学更明确地考虑非人类机构，并提供一个伦理反思，谁或什么被认为有权在房主的院子里同居。
Although the yard is a hybrid social and material landscape, much social science research emphasizes the socio-cultural factors and has mostly neglected the potentially important influence of plants, animals, and the nonliving material world on homeowners' decision-making. Using interviews across six metropolitan areas in the United States, we investigated the ways residential yards' nonhuman context is perceived to influence homeowners' relationships with and planning for their yards. We found that nonhuman dynamics establish boundaries of yard-related decision-making, and that homeowners described their relations with the nonhuman context of the yard as cooperative, oppositional, and negotiable. We call for social science in urban spaces to be more explicitly informed by a consideration of nonhuman agency, and offer an ethical reflection of who or what is considered to have a right to cohabitate in homeowners' yards.