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

该项目开始于这样一种观察，即非洲的社会-环境关系目前正面临着一种激烈的重塑，通过大量与气候有关的方案，在国际层面上进行概念开发，在国家层面上转化为项目和方案，并在地方层面上进行思想、社会和经济方面的谈判和利用。它将“适应气候变化”（ACC）的全球概念作为一种旅行理念，最初由北方科学家设计，目前正在“旅行”到南方。该项目基于以下假设：(1)全球行政协调会范式到非洲的“旅行”是一个模棱两可和有争议的翻译过程，在这个过程中，该理念经历了重新解释、修改和挪用，以便它符合非洲多个层面利益相关者的经验、需求和利益。(2)翻译过程是由一组特定的行动者、交际网络、互动的制度模式和知识资源构成的翻译制度所构成的。(3)翻译及其社会、技术和环境的物质化将意味着人们开发、管理和保护环境的方式发生根本性的变化，从而伴随着不同社会群体之间的利益冲突。将该项目与优先方案的总体目标联系起来的关键问题是双重的，它一方面要求埃塞俄比亚不同翻译制度中的行动者如何，坦桑尼亚和卢旺达能够在ACC理念的翻译过程中展现其适应和创造能力，另一方面，这些能力的动员和转化如何塑造环境治理，从而重新排序这些国家的国家-社会-环境关系。项目的具体目标是：通过识别译者了解翻译过程；分析他们的翻译实践以及ACC思想传播和翻译的多标量网络，理解不同ACC翻译作为不同翻译制度下当地创造力和适应性的表达，追踪ACC翻译对环境治理的影响，从而通过识别新兴和/或重塑的结构，如环境监测，对国家社会关系产生影响。行动小组和土地利用变化，理解“适应”不同含义的相互作用，并通过跨学科和理论知情的比较实证实地工作方法，为优先计划的结构和概念目标做出贡献