How can scholarly work be meaningful in an era of lost causes?
How can scholarly work be meaningful in an era of lost causes?
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在一个失败的时代，学术工作如何有意义？
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2019
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K. Sultzbach
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作者：
K. Sultzbach
这篇个人文章试图在我们目前生活的条件下定位我们作为学者和教师的工作。我考虑环境人文学科可以提供什么样的指导，以促进倡导和坚持的伦理，这种伦理不期待胜利。通过参考文献、重要资料和我自己课堂上的例子，我提出了两种方法。第一个与语言有关：我们很有能力通过促进表达与自然亲密、创造性关系的词语和故事，以及提高公众感知环境正义问题能力的阅读方式，来干预官僚主义的词汇。第二个是社区行动：我们可以将“行动主义”作为当地参与的日常仪式来教授，并将希望重新定义为一种工作形式——即使它不能阻止全球变暖的后果，我们也要致力于实践代际的、永恒的工作。
ABSTRACT This personal essay is an attempt to position our work as scholars and teachers within the conditions we currently live. I consider what kind of guidance the environmental humanities might offer to promote an ethic of advocacy and persistence which endures without the expectation of victory. Using literary references, critical sources, and examples from my own classroom, I propose how we might do this in two ways. The first has to do with language: we are well-situated to intervene in lexicons of bureaucracy by promoting words and stories that articulate intimate, creative relationships with nature, and ways of reading which enhance the public’s ability to perceive environmental justice issues. The second concerns community action: we can teach ‘activism’ as daily ceremonies of local involvement, and re-frame hope as a form of work – inter-generational, perpetual work we are committed to practicing even if it fails to prevent the consequences of global warming.