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Historicising Natures, Cultures and Laws in the Etosha-Kunene Conservation Territories of Namibia

纳米比亚埃托沙-库内内保护区的自然、文化和法律的历史化

基本信息

批准号：
AH/T013230/1
负责人：
Sian Sullivan
金额：
$ 41.67万
依托单位：
Bath Spa University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT013230%2F1
关键词：
Historicising Natures Cultures Laws Etosha

项目摘要

How can conservation of biodiversity-rich landscapes come to terms with the past [Vergangenheitsbewältigung], given historical contexts of extreme social exclusion and marginalisation? How can key biodiversity areas whose global value rests on ahistorical ideas of Nature resist an uncritical presentism, to be better understood as entangled with diverse human histories and values? How can conservation policy and practice recognise deep cultural and linguistic differences around 'the nature of nature'?Our research responds to these questions through a cross-disciplinary humanities programme analysing dynamic dimensions of conservation territories in the Kunene Region of the former German colony that is now Namibia. Kunene's Etosha National Park and neighbouring beyond-Etosha conservation designations are home to diverse indigenous and marginalised peoples. Our research team of three women academics in Germany, the UK and Namibia has a combined 50+ years of ethnographic, archival, oral history and livelihoods enquiry in Etosha-Kunene. We propose a new collaborative three-year programme of six intersecting work packages (WPs):WP1 on 'Historicising Socio-ecological Policy in Etosha-Kunene' offers a detailed discourse analysis and history of public conservation policy affecting natures and peoples associated with the region, interrogating shifting influences, interests and governance technologies;WP2 on 'Comparative Indigenous Perspectives' assembles our long-term research in the region into a new comparative analysis of indigenous Khoe, San and Himba-Herero understandings of natures-beyond-the-human, drawing on current theories in the anthropology of nature;WP3 on 'Making Identity and Indigeneity in Etosha-Kunene' explores how indigenous identities are made, focusing especially on how distinct and intersecting 'Khoe' and 'San' identities have been present(ed) in ethnographic, linguistic, conservation and legal discourse;WP4 on 'Spatialising Coloniality in Etosha-Kunene' (re)traces the thought and practices of selected colonial European actors from the mid-1800s, bringing their written narratives into conversation with indigenous interlocutors inhabiting the same places and spaces (see WP2);WP5 on 'Collecting, Curating and Returning Etosha-Kunene Natures' investigates how the natures of Etosha-Kunene have been both represented and shaped by natural history collections of specimen-artefacts assembled by the (mostly male) European actors we study in WP4;WP6 focuses on public engagements, via a mobile exhibition, a website, and a series of workshops sharing and further exploring issues arising in WPs 1-5.In sum, we offer a multivocal and radically historicised analysis of Etosha-Kunene that contributes new thinking on coloniality, indigeneity and 'natural history'. Our aim is to support conservation laws and praxis to more fully recognise the diversity of pasts, cultures and natures constituting this internationally-valued region.

在极端的社会排斥和边缘化的历史背景下，保护生物多样性丰富的景观如何与过去达成妥协[Verangenheitsbewältigung]？全球价值依赖于对自然的历史观念的关键生物多样性领域如何抵制不加批判的存在主义，以便更好地被理解为与不同的人类历史和价值观纠缠在一起？保护政策和实践如何才能认识到围绕自然本质的深刻的文化和语言差异？我们的研究通过一个跨学科的人文项目来回答这些问题，该项目分析了前德国殖民地库内内地区保护领土的动态维度，即现在的纳米比亚。库内内的埃托沙国家公园和邻近的Beyond-Etosa保护区是各种原住民和边缘化民族的家园。我们的研究团队由德国、英国和纳米比亚的三名女性学者组成，在埃托沙-库内内进行了50多年的民族志、档案、口述历史和生计调查。我们提出了一个由六个交叉工作包(WPS)组成的新的合作三年计划：WP1关于“埃托沙-库内内社会生态政策的历史化”，提供了影响与该地区相关的自然和人民的公共保护政策的详细话语分析和历史，询问了不断变化的影响、利益和治理技术；WP2关于“比较土著视角”，将我们在该地区的长期研究汇集到一个新的比较分析中，比较分析土著Khoe、San和Himba-Herero对超越人类的自然的理解，借鉴自然人类学中的现有理论；关于“在埃托沙-库内内制造身份和印第安性”的WP3探索土著身份是如何形成的，特别侧重于在人种学、语言学、保护和法律话语中如何存在截然不同和交叉的“Khoe”和“San”身份；WP4关于“埃托沙-库内内的殖民性的空间化”(Re)追溯了19世纪中期选定的殖民欧洲行为者的思想和做法，将他们的书面叙述与居住在相同地方和空间的土著对话者进行对话(见WP2)；WP5关于“收集、管理和归还Etoasha-Kurene自然”，调查了由我们在WP4研究的欧洲演员(主要是男性)收集的标本文物的自然历史集合如何表现和塑造Etoasha-Kurene的性质；WP6专注于公共活动，通过流动展览、网站和一系列研讨会分享和进一步探索WPS 1-5中出现的问题。总之，我们提供了对Etoasha-Kurene的多层面和激进的历史化分析，有助于对殖民性、土著遗传和‘自然历史’进行新的思考。我们的目标是支持保护法律和实践，以更充分地认识到构成这个具有国际价值的地区的过去、文化和自然的多样性。