Global Partners?: Transnational Environmentalism and In Country Environmental Organizations

本研究将运用民族志方法和文献分析，分析文化差异如何影响环境主义的建构，以及这些差异如何影响跨国与国内非政府环保组织之间的合作。 包括环保主义的运动和组织是非常多样化和动态的。 他们以不同的方式描述环境保护主义，并赋予这个术语不同的含义。 关于这种概念上的多样性如何促进或限制环境宣传的研究很少。 具体而言，本项目将比较位于北部的五个印度环境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，并研究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文献框架的研究问题，从解释性传播研究的方法将被用来收集和分析数据。 将收集所有组织提供的出版物、使命说明、项目和年度报告、组织结构图。这两个跨国非政府组织出版了许多报告、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，并将这些分析作为衡量国家和跨国环境主义之间差异的“尺度”。 将与印度非政府组织的工作人员进行实地访问和长时间访谈，并进行录音。 将为所有组织制作一个网络图，记录它们与政府和私营组织及捐助者的合作。 结合关于合作、资金来源、组织历史和结构的信息，实地说明、项目访问和与工作人员的非正式互动将为专题分析和隐喻群分析提供背景信息，然后可以将其与合作图表进行比较。 研究结果将准备用于期刊出版和专业会议上的演示。 它们将有助于地方和跨国环境组织以及政策制定者了解它们的优先事项和关注事项。

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.