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21st Century Filipina Nature Writing for Sustainable Development and Environmental Justice

21 世纪菲律宾自然写作促进可持续发展和环境正义

基本信息

批准号：
AH/P007589/1
负责人：
Brett Matulis
金额：
$ 10.28万
依托单位：
University of Leicester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2016 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP007589%2F1
关键词：
21st Century Filipina Nature Writing

项目摘要

This research explores the potential of 21st century nature writing to empower disadvantaged communities, restore environmental rights at risk, and transform the global conservation agenda. Nature writing, which entails personal reflection and creative expression through language to record experiences of the natural world, encompasses many different formats: from poems, short stories, fables, essays, and journal entries, to annotated drawings, short skits, lyrical compositions, and - in the modern era - visual and spoken word performance through various digital media. While the art form has historically been associated with white, Western, upper-middle-class men, and has thus tended to reinforce social segregation and inequity even while inspiring responsible stewardship of the natural world, we re-envision it here in the hands of Filipina women as an instrument of sustainable development and environmental justice.Underpinning the research is a critique of the currently dominant neoliberal framework for global conservation, which involves monetising the natural world and incorporating its various components into the global economy as commodities. Of particular importance are problems identified by a growing number of local communities, environmental NGOs and social movements in the developing world, including Philippines-based advocacy organisations such as Ibon International and the Center for Environmental Concerns. As laid out in an open letter to the United Nations, authored by a coalition of civil society organizations led by Ibon International, more than a thousand signatories contend that capitalist conservation reinforces corporate rather than local control over natural resources, thus endangering livelihoods, threatening the sovereignty of vulnerable communities, and devaluing place-based knowledge. They further describe that the economisation of nature exacerbates rather than addresses existing social inequalities, which in turn fuel further resource exploitation and environmental degradation.The letter's authors instead call for environmental decision-makers to support a range of alternative knowledges and ecological practices as the 'building blocks' of genuine people-centered sustainable development. Our research responds directly to this call by conducting a practice-based inquiry in the form of a nature writing workshop, delivered in partnership with local writers and community leaders, and under the guidance of two local advocacy organisations who work in the areas of environmental protection and women's empowerment, respectively. The workshop examines nature writing as tradition, identity, practice, communication, advocacy, and legacy - all while working towards the compilation of a 21st Century Filipina Nature Writing Anthology. It further engages participants in the digital humanities to produce a distinctly contemporary piece of nature writing - the video essay - which will be disseminated through social media.Ultimately, the project translates the environmental values, unique perspectives and future ambitions of rural Filipina women into specific and concrete policy recommendations, which will be presented to key national and international decision-makers, including the Philippine Commission on Women, in writing (in the form of a "policy pack") as well as through live performance. A showcase event held in the final month of the project will be attended by community members, conservationists, invited local representatives and key national policy actors. It will feature vivid and compelling nature writing compositions, written and read by the participants themselves, towards the aim of educating audience members, informing local as well as national environmental governance and policy, and moving decision-makers at all scales to immediate action in line with the stories revealed and insights gained over the course of the project.

这项研究探索了21世纪自然写作的潜力，以增强弱势社区的能力，恢复濒临灭绝的环境权利，并改变全球保护议程。自然写作需要通过语言进行个人反思和创造性表达，以记录自然世界的经历，包括许多不同的格式：从诗歌、短篇小说、寓言、散文和日记条目，到附注绘画、短剧、抒情作品，以及--在现代--通过各种数字媒体的视觉和口头表演。虽然这种艺术形式历史上一直与白人、西方、中上阶层男性联系在一起，因此往往会加剧社会隔离和不公平，即使在激发对自然世界负责任的管理的同时，我们在这里将其重新设想为菲律宾妇女手中的可持续发展和环境正义的工具。这项研究的基础是对目前占主导地位的全球保护的新自由主义框架的批评，该框架涉及将自然世界货币化，并将其各种组成部分作为大宗商品纳入全球经济。尤其重要的是，发展中世界越来越多的地方社区、环保非政府组织和社会运动发现了问题，其中包括总部设在菲律宾的倡导组织，如Ibon International和环境问题中心。正如Ibon International领导的一个民间社会组织联盟写给联合国的一封公开信中所阐述的那样，1000多个签署国认为，资本主义保护加强了企业而不是地方对自然资源的控制，从而危及生计，威胁脆弱社区的主权，并使基于地方的知识贬值。他们进一步描述说，节约自然会加剧而不是解决现有的社会不平等，而这反过来又会进一步加剧资源开采和环境退化。这封信的作者们反而呼吁环境决策者支持一系列替代知识和生态实践，作为真正以人为中心的可持续发展的“基石”。我们的研究直接响应了这一呼吁，以自然写作研讨会的形式进行了以实践为基础的调查，该研讨会与当地作家和社区领导人合作，并在两个分别致力于环境保护和赋予妇女权力的当地倡导组织的指导下进行。研讨会考察了自然写作作为传统、身份、实践、交流、倡导和遗产的问题--所有这些都是为了编写21世纪菲律宾自然写作选集。它还让数字人文学科的参与者制作了一篇独特的当代自然作品--视频短文--将通过社交媒体传播。最终，该项目将菲律宾农村妇女的环境价值观、独特视角和未来抱负转化为具体的政策建议，并将以书面形式(以“政策包”的形式)和现场表演提交给包括菲律宾妇女委员会在内的主要国家和国际决策者。在该项目的最后一个月举行的展示活动将有社区成员、自然资源保护者、受邀的当地代表和主要的国家政策参与者参加。它将以生动和令人信服的自然写作为特色，由参与者自己撰写和阅读，目的是教育受众，向地方和国家环境治理和政策提供信息，并推动各级决策者根据项目过程中揭示的故事和获得的见解立即采取行动。