Translations of the 'adaptation to climate change' paradigm in Eastern Africa

东非“适应气候变化”范式的翻译

• 批准号: 180509503
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Michael Bollig
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Geographisches Institut
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2010-12-31 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/180509503?language=en
• 关键词: Translations; adaptation; climate; change; paradigm

The project starts from the observation that society-environment relations in Africa are currently facing an intense re-shaping through a multitude of climate related programmes, conceptually developed at an international level, translated into projects and programmes at the national level and negotiated and appropriated ideologically, socially and economically at the local level. It takes the global concept of ‘Adaptation to Climate Change’ (ACC) as a travelling idea that was initially designed by scientists in the North and is presently “travelling” to the South. The project is based on the following hypotheses:(1) The ‘travelling’ of the global ACC paradigm to Africa is an ambiguous and contested translation process in which the idea undergoes reinterpretation, modification and appropriation so that it matches experiences, needs and interests of stakeholders at multiple levels in Africa.(2) Translation processes are structured by translation regimes that are constituted by a specific set of actors, networks of communication, institutional patterns of interaction, and knowledge resources.(3) Translations and their social, technological and environmental materialisations will imply fundamental changes in the way people exploit, manage and conserve their environment and thus be accompanied by conflicts between different social groups with their respective interests.The key question that links the project to the overall objective of the priority programme is twofold and asks on the one hand how actors in different translation regimes in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Rwanda are able to unfold their capacities of adaptation and creativity in the process of translation of the ACC idea and on the other hand how the mobilisation and transformation of these capacities shape environmental governance and thus a re-ordering of state-society-environment relations in these countries.The specific objectives of the project are to understand the processes of translation by identifying the translators, analysing their translation practices and their multi-scalar networks in and through which the idea of ACC travels and is translated, to understand diverse ACC translations as an expression of local creativity and adaptation in different translation regimes, to trace impacts of ACC translations on environmental governance and thus on statesociety relations by identifying emerging and/or re-shaped structures of e.g. environmental surveillance, action groups and land use changes, to understand the interactions of different significations of ‘adaptation’ and to contribute to the structural and conceptual aim of the priority programme through an interdisciplinary and theoretical informed approach of comparative empirical fieldwork

该项目的出发点是，非洲的社会-环境关系目前正面临着一种强烈的重新塑造，这是通过在国际一级概念上制定的众多与气候有关的方案，在国家一级转化为项目和方案，并在地方一级进行谈判和在意识形态、社会和经济上加以利用。它将“适应气候变化”（ACC）的全球概念作为一个旅行的想法，最初由北方的科学家设计，目前正在“旅行”到南方。本课题基于以下假设：（1） 将全球行政协调会的模式“移植”到非洲是一个模糊和有争议的翻译过程，在这个过程中，对这一想法进行了重新解释、修改和挪用，以便使其符合非洲各级利益攸关方的经验、需求和利益。（二） 翻译过程是由翻译制度构成的，而翻译制度又由一组特定的参与者、交流网络、机构互动模式和知识资源构成。（三） 翻译及其在社会、技术和环境方面的具体化将意味着人们开发、管理和保护环境的方式发生根本性变化，因此伴随着不同社会群体与其各自利益之间的冲突。坦桑尼亚和卢旺达能够在转化ACC理念的过程中展现其适应能力和创造力，另一方面，这些能力的调动和转化如何塑造环境治理，从而重新安排这些国家的国家-社会-环境关系。 通过识别译者，分析他们的翻译实践和他们的多标量网络来理解翻译过程，ACC的思想在其中传播和翻译， 为了理解不同的ACC翻译作为不同翻译制度下的本地创造力和适应性的表达， 通过确定环境监督、行动小组和土地使用变化等新出现的和/或重新形成的结构，追踪行政协调会翻译对环境治理的影响，从而对国家-社会关系的影响， 理解“适应”和“适应”的不同含义之间的相互作用 通过比较经验性实地工作的跨学科和理论性知情方法，为优先计划的结构和概念目标做出贡献