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

该项目的出发点是观察到非洲的社会与环境关系目前正面临着通过众多与气候相关的计划而剧烈重塑的情况，这些计划在国际层面上制定概念，转化为国家层面的项目和计划，并在地方层面上进行意识形态、社会和经济方面的谈判和拨款。它将“适应气候变化”（ACC）的全球概念作为一种旅行理念，最初是由北方科学家设计的，目前正在“旅行”到南方。该项目基于以下假设：（1）全球 ACC 范式到非洲的“旅行”是一个模棱两可且有争议的翻译过程，其中理念经过重新解释、修改和挪用，以便与非洲多个层面的利益相关者的经验、需求和利益相匹配。（2）翻译过程由翻译制度构成，翻译制度由一组特定的参与者、沟通网络、 (3) 翻译及其社会、技术和环境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，从而伴随着不同社会群体之间及其各自利益的冲突。将该项目与优先计划的总体目标联系起来的关键问题是双重的，一方面询问埃塞俄比亚、坦桑尼亚不同翻译制度下的参与者如何 卢旺达和卢旺达能够在 ACC 理念的翻译过程中发挥其适应和创造力的能力，另一方面，这些能力的动员和转变如何塑造环境治理，从而重新排序这些国家的国家-社会-环境关系。该项目的具体目标是通过识别译者、分析他们的翻译实践及其多尺度网络来理解翻译过程。  理解不同的 ACC 翻译是当地创造力和适应不同翻译制度的表达；  通过识别新兴和/或重塑的结构，追踪 ACC 翻译对环境治理的影响，从而追踪对国家社会关系的影响。环境监测、行动小组和土地利用变化， 了解“适应”不同含义之间的相互作用，以及 通过比较实证实地工作的跨学科和理论知情方法，为优先计划的结构和概念目标做出贡献