Transforming Indigenous Relations with Nature: Ecological Discourses, Eco-Tourism, and Gender in Mexico

改变土著与自然的关系：墨西哥的生态话语、生态旅游和性别

• 批准号: 232674815
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Eveline Dürr
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Ethnologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2012-12-31 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/232674815?language=en
• 关键词: Transforming; Indigenous; Relations; Nature; Ecological

Indigenous communities are particularly affected by global discourses on environmental degradation and climate change. While they are seen as polluters with non-sustainable economies, they are also portrayed as particularly close or related to nature. These romanticised representations, however, are increasingly used by indigenous actors to advance their economies. This is the case in community based ecotourism projects, which are framed by globalised discourses on environmental degradation and environmental protection. This project investigates the social consequences of these processes in Oaxaca, Mexico, where the state supports community based ecotourism projects in indigenous communities both financially and logistically. This study scrutinises how creative appropriation and translation of ecological discourses impacts on perceptions of nature, and places particular emphasis on gender specific dimensions. By applying a gender informed perspective, this study generates new insights in nature based, cultural transformations processes in indigenous contexts and makes a substantial contribution to the theoretical analysis of discourse and practice systems, nature relations, tourism and concepts of appropriation.

土著社区尤其受到有关环境退化和气候变化的全球论述的影响。虽然他们被视为经济不可持续的污染者，但他们也被描绘成特别接近自然或与自然有关。然而，这些浪漫化的表现越来越多地被土著行为者用来促进他们的经济。以社区为基础的生态旅游项目就是这种情况，这些项目的框架是关于环境退化和环境保护的全球化论述。该项目调查了墨西哥瓦哈卡州这些进程的社会后果，该州在财政和后勤上支持土著社区的社区生态旅游项目。这项研究仔细考察了生态话语的创造性借用和翻译如何影响人们对自然的认知，并特别强调了性别层面的问题。通过应用性别信息视角，这项研究对土著背景下以自然为基础的文化转变过程产生了新的见解，并对话语和实践系统、自然关系、旅游和侵占概念的理论分析做出了重大贡献。