Unruly Raccoons and Troubled Educators: Nature/Culture Divides in a Childcare Centre
Unruly Raccoons and Troubled Educators: Nature/Culture Divides in a Childcare Centre
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不守规矩的浣熊和陷入困境的教育者：托儿中心的自然/文化分歧
DOI：
10.1215/22011919-3616380
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Fikile Nxumalo
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作者：
V. Pacini;Fikile Nxumalo
目前，生态破坏的景观要求我们重新思考人类和非人类的关系，并考虑替代和更可持续的未来的多种可能性。正如许多环境和土著人文学者所指出的那样，这种重新思考的核心是动摇西方认识论中的殖民自然/文化分歧。在这篇文章中，通过一系列位于，小，日常的故事，从托儿中心，我们涉及浣熊的儿童教育家遇到，以考虑如何浣熊的反复跨越边界和他们的逮捕不守规矩的科目可能揭示的不可能性的性质/文化鸿沟。我们讲述这些故事，不是为了给人类和浣熊生活中不对称、尴尬和摩擦的纠缠提供一个最终的固定解决方案，而是作为一种回应性的讲述，可能会为负责任、情感和道德的共同居住带来新的可能性。在加拿大西海岸的一个山林中，一位教育工作者正在检查操场上是否有浣熊。这些动物是这片森林的几种土著物种之一，这片森林是该国一所主要大学的背景。随着大学的发展，一个不断扩大的高层公寓、零售店、快餐店、停车场和这个托儿中心的网络也随之建立起来，每一次扩建都在侵占浣熊的栖息地。1在这个特别的早晨，教育者在操场上搜寻任何可能藏在树上的浣熊，在游戏室里，在幻灯片下，在沙箱里，或者在孩子们的花园里。她走近存放孩子们自行车的棚子，
Current times of anthropogenically damaged landscapes call us to re-think human and nonhuman relations and consider multiple possibilities for alternative and more sustainable futures. As many environmental and Indigenous humanities scholars have noted, central to this re-thinking is unsettling the colonial nature/culture divide in Western epistemology. In this article, through a series of situated, small, everyday stories from childcare centres, we relate raccoon-child-educator encounters in order to consider how raccoons' repeated boundary-crossing and their apprehension as unruly subjects might reveal the impossibility of the nature/culture divide. We tell these stories, not to offer a final fixed solution to the asymmetrical, awkward and frictional entanglements of humans' and raccoons' lives, but as a responsive telling that may bring forth new possibilities for responsible, affective and ethical co-habitations. Co-habiting and Inheriting At a childcare centre located in a mountain forest on Canada's west coast, an educator checks the playground for raccoons. The animals are one of several species indigenous to this forest, which is the setting for one of the country's major universities. As the university has grown, an ever-expanding network of high-rise condominiums, retail outlets, fast food restaurants, parking lots, and this childcare centre complex have been built alongside it, with each expansion encroaching on the raccoons' habitat. 1 On this particular morning, the educator scours the playground looking for any raccoons that might be hiding in the trees, in the playhouse, under the slides, in the sand box, or in the children's garden. She approaches the shed that holds the children's bikes and
影响因子：
7.1
作者：
Lorimer J
通讯作者：
Lorimer J