Global Partners?: Transnational Environmentalism and In Country Environmental Organizations

利用民族志方法和文献分析，本项目将分析文化差异如何影响环境主义的构建，以及这些差异如何影响跨国和国内非政府环境组织之间的合作。包括环境保护主义的运动和组织是异常多样化和动态的。他们以不同的方式描述环境保护主义，并赋予该术语不同的含义。关于这种概念多样性促进或限制环境倡导的方式的研究很少。具体来说，这个项目将比较设在北方的五个印度非政府组织和两个跨国环境非政府组织。它将侧重于科学和社会正义概念的不同使用，以制定环境行动，并审查概念和组织多样性如何影响全球环境运动。社会运动和科学研究的文献框架的研究问题，并从解释传播学的方法来收集和分析数据。出版物、使命宣言、项目和年度报告、组织结构图将在所有组织可用时收集。这两家跨国非政府组织发表了大量的报告、书籍和论文，阐述了他们对环保主义本质的看法。将对这些材料进行文本分析，并将分析作为衡量国家和跨国环境主义差异的“尺度”。将对印度非政府组织的工作人员进行实地访问和长时间采访，并进行录音。将为所有组织制作一份网络图表，记录它们与政府和私人组织及捐助者的合作。与合作信息、资金来源、组织历史和结构、实地记录、项目访问以及与工作人员的非正式互动相结合，将为专题分析和隐喻集群分析提供背景信息，然后可以将其与合作图表进行比较。研究结果将准备在期刊上发表，并在专业会议上发表。它们将有助于地方和跨国环境组织以及决策者设法了解它们的优先事项和关切事项。

Using ethnographic methods and document analysis, this project will analyze how cultural differences affect the construction of environmentalism and how these differences affect collaboration between transnational and in-country non-governmental environmental organizations. The movements and organizations comprising environmentalism are exceptionally diverse and dynamic. They describe environmentalism in different ways and attach different meanings to the term. There is little research on the ways in which this conceptual diversity facilitates or constrains environmental advocacy. Specifically, this project will compare five Indian and two transnational environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which are located in the North. It will focus on the differential use of scientific and social justice concepts to frame environmental action and examine how conceptual and organizational diversity affects the global environmental movement. The social movements and science studies literatures frame the research questions, and methods from interpretive communication studies will be used to gather and analyze data. Publications, mission statements, project and annual reports, organizational charts will be collected when available from all organizations. The two transnational NGOs have published numerous reports, books, and treatises with their views on the nature of environmentalism. Textual analyses will be done on these materials, and the analyses will be used as a `yardstick` by which to gauge differences between national and transnational environmentalism. Field visits and long interviews will be conducted and tape recorded with staff of Indian NGOs. A network chart will be made for all organizations, chronicling their collaborations with government and private organizations and donors. In conjunction with information on collaborations, funding sources, and organizational history and structure, field notes, project visits, and informal interaction with staff will provide background information for thematic analyses and analyses of metaphor clusters, that can then be compared to the chart of collaborations. Results will be prepared for journal publication and presentations at professional meetings. They will be useful to local and transnational environmental organizations and to policy makers seeking to understand their priorities and concerns.