RUI: Utilizing Collaborative Event Ethnography to Understand Global Environmental Governance

RUI：利用协作事件民族志来理解全球环境治理

• 批准号: 1560812
• 负责人: Catherine Corson
• 金额: $ 24万
• 依托单位: Mount Holyoke College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-05-01 至 2020-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1560812&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Utilizing; Collaborative; Event; Ethnography

This project uses an innovative methodology called collaborative event ethnography to advance understanding of contemporary global environmental governance. Focusing on a case study of the 2016 World Conservation Congress, the project examines how notions of the "green economy", such as those inscribed in the UNEP-led Green Economy Initiative, are shaping global environmental conservation practices. As part of a coordinated effort among researchers from multiple universities, countries, and disciplines, the project strengthens multi-national research, training, and teaching partnerships in producing policy-relevant scientific research. It integrates research and education through cascade mentoring, which includes senior and junior scholars and graduate and undergraduate students, from two liberal arts colleges and a large research university in the development of innovative methodology and theory-building in global environmental governance. Through rigorous theoretical and methodological training for graduate and undergraduate students, the project helps them to develop the skills and knowledge to apply geographic concepts and methods to pressing global environmental issues, while simultaneously exposing them to potential careers in environmental research and policy. By illuminating the complexities of how actors influence global environmental governance, it reveals avenues for redressing seemingly intractable environmental crises and global inequality at a critical historical moment.The project challenges state-centric understandings of global environmental governance and advances new theories about how contemporary governance occurs. It augments traditional field-based studies of conservation with ethnographic data in order to trace how paradigm shifts occur in global conservation politics. Specifically, the project analyzes how global conservation governance transpires across multiple institutional sites by focusing on international conferences as key venues in which diverse actors, who are normally dispersed in time and space, convene to negotiate. It attends to the types of strategies that diverse actors use and the ways in which conference norms, structures, forms of acceptable knowledge and measurement shape the ways in which these actors interact and influence negotiations, revealing how and why certain actors are better able than others to catalyze paradigm shifts. Ultimately, it documents how paradigm shifts occur not only through official discourse, policy and law, but also through more informal, everyday interactions among public, private and non-profit actors.

该项目使用一种称为协作事件人种学的创新方法，以促进对当代全球环境治理的理解。该项目以2016年世界保护大会的案例研究为重点，探讨“绿色经济”概念，如环境署牵头的绿色经济倡议中所载的概念，如何影响全球环境保护做法。作为来自多所大学，国家和学科的研究人员之间协调努力的一部分，该项目加强了多国研究，培训和教学伙伴关系，以进行与政策相关的科学研究。它通过级联指导将研究和教育结合起来，其中包括来自两所文科学院和一所大型研究型大学的高年级和低年级学者以及研究生和本科生，以制定全球环境治理方面的创新方法和理论建设。通过对研究生和本科生进行严格的理论和方法培训，该项目帮助他们发展技能和知识，将地理概念和方法应用于紧迫的全球环境问题，同时使他们接触到环境研究和政策方面的潜在职业。通过阐明行为体如何影响全球环境治理的复杂性，它揭示了在关键的历史时刻纠正看似棘手的环境危机和全球不平等的途径。该项目挑战了以国家为中心的全球环境治理理解，并提出了关于当代治理如何发生的新理论。它增强了传统的基于实地的研究与民族志数据保护，以跟踪范式转变发生在全球保护政治。具体而言，该项目分析了全球保护治理如何在多个机构网站上进行，重点是国际会议，作为不同的行为者，通常分散在时间和空间，聚集在一起进行谈判的关键场所。它关注不同行为体使用的战略类型，以及会议规范、结构、可接受的知识形式和衡量方式如何塑造这些行为体互动和影响谈判的方式，揭示某些行为体如何以及为什么比其他行为体更能催化范式转变。最后，它记录了范式转变如何不仅通过官方话语、政策和法律，而且通过公共、私人和非营利行为体之间更非正式的日常互动发生。