Agroecology as a Practice-Based Tool for Peacebuilding in Fragile Environments? Three Stories from Rural Zimbabwe
Agroecology as a Practice-Based Tool for Peacebuilding in Fragile Environments? Three Stories from Rural Zimbabwe
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生态农业作为脆弱环境中建设和平的实践工具？
作者：
Georgina McAllister;Julia E. Wright
本文探讨了变革性的农业生态学如何有助于社会生态关系的批判性重构，以及这如何反过来为脆弱环境中自下而上的和平形成奠定基础，在脆弱环境中，农村社区往往习惯于控制，暴力和不信任的条件，从而推动社会分裂。在这里，我们认为社会农业的价值，通过社会生态变化可以谈判和替代源的机构和身份可以培养，以超越根深蒂固的分裂模式的重建关系。三个案例研究，借鉴的主要数据，从参与性行动研究与农业社区在津巴布韦，也考虑到不同的态度和经验的农业生态和传统的农民。该研究发现，在生态农业农民接触到更多的多元思维方式，存在和共同行动的地方，强制结构的自主程度正在增加，同时也是一种有效性和乐观主义，以实现社会生态变化。在塑造自然景观的集体进程正在形成团结、互惠和信任的纽带的地方，这一点尤其明显。在这些情况下，生态农业农民越来越能够设想一个由集体努力共同塑造的未来，这体现在态度的改变以及彼此之间和与环境之间的关系。本文探讨了在何种程度上，农民在每个位置都能够工具化的韧性和机构的日常和平，以及根据历史背景和当地权力动态，代表变革的障碍发现的差异。
This paper investigates how transformative agroecology may contribute to the critical reframing of social–ecological relationships, and how this might in turn create a foundation for bottom-up peace formation in fragile environments, within which rural communities are often habituated to conditions of control, violence and mistrust that drive social division. Here, we consider the value of social farming in reforging relationships through which social–ecological change may be negotiated and alternative sources of agency and identity may be cultivated in order to transcend entrenched patterns of division. Three case studies are presented, drawing on primary data from participatory action research with farming communities in Zimbabwe that also consider the differential attitudes and experiences of agroecological and conventional farmers. The study finds that, where agroecological farmers were exposed to more plural ways of thinking, being and acting together, levels of autonomy from coercive structures were increasing, as were both a sense of efficacy and optimism to effect social–ecological change. This was particularly pronounced where collective processes to shape physical landscapes were forging bonds of solidarity, reciprocity and trust. In these cases, agroecological farmers were increasingly able to envisage a future together shaped by collective endeavour, evidenced by changing attitudes and relationships with one another and their environment. The paper explores the extent to which farmers in each location were able to instrumentalise resilience and agency for everyday peace, and the variances found according to historical context and local power dynamics that represent barriers to change.