Cultivating Rubber through Science, Indigeneity and Art

通过科学、本土化和艺术种植橡胶

• 批准号: 2240844
• 负责人: Katherine Bowie
• 金额: $ 1.56万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2240844&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cultivating; Rubber; through; Science; Indigeneity

This project traces the socio-environmental trajectories of rubber, Lat. Hevea Brasiliensis. This cash crop, which is used in everything from tires to telegraph cables, fundamentally changed the world. The project combines archival and ethnographic research in order to answer the following research questions: What articulations of racial and environmental justice emerge from people’s different modes of relation to Hevea Brasiliensis from colonialism until present day? What socio-environmental considerations underpin colonial and postcolonial science? How are postcolonial power hierarchies, such as indigeneity, citizenship and class, re-negotiated through the cultivation of rubber by different social groups? Undertaking a qualitative analysis, this study explores the ways in which colonial officials, smallholders, biotechnology scientists, indigenous communities and artists in colonial and postcolonial contexts have cultivated Hevea Brasiliensis in different ways and with different socio-environmental implications. The project critically analyses how cultivating rubber through science, ancestral knowledge and aesthetics can enable the articulation of multiple forms of social and environmental justice from within monocrop plantations. Moreover, given the growing challenges posed by the interdependencies between climate variability and industrial agriculture, it also speaks to questions of environmental sustainability and social justice. Findings from this project will provide insights and recommendations for governmental and nongovernmental actors interested in aspects of environmental and social sustainability in the context of industrial agriculture. Also, findings will benefit scholars and the public through the dissemination of publications and pedagogical materials through free-of-charge online platforms.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目追溯了橡胶的社会环境轨迹。 hevea brasiliensis。从轮胎到电报电缆，这种经济作物从根本上改变了世界。该项目结合了档案和民族志研究，以回答以下研究问题：从人们与殖民主义的Hevea Brasiliensis的不同关系直到今天，种族和环境正义的表达方式是什么？在殖民和后殖民科学领导下，哪些社会环境考虑因素？如何通过不同社会群体培养橡胶来重新谈判后殖民权力等级，例如本土，公民身份和阶级？本研究进行了定性分析，探讨了殖民和后殖民背景下的殖民官员，小型持有人，生物技术科学家，土著社区和艺术家的方式，在不同的路形和不同的社会环境含义中培养了hevea hevea brasiliensis。该项目批判性地分析了如何通过科学，祖传知识和美学培养橡胶，可以从单乳突种植园内阐明多种形式的社会和环境正义。此外，鉴于气候变异性与工业农业之间相互依存的挑战日益严重，它也表明了环境可持续性和社会正义的问题。该项目的调查结果将为对工业农业背景下对环境和社会可持续性方面感兴趣的政府和非政府参与者提供见解和建议。此外，调查结果将通过免费的在线平台传播出版物和教学材料，从而使学者和公众受益。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估的评估值得支持的。