A multi-species, multi-sited ethnography of Scottish marine livelihood

苏格兰海洋生计的多物种、多地点民族志

• 批准号: 2097253
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2097253
• 关键词: multi; species; sited; ethnography; Scottish

I will carry out participant observation at conferences and meetings with policy-makers and industry actors in order to gain ethnographic insights into the politics and economics behind the lived experience of my sea-going informants. This will be supplemented with interviews with fisheries biologists, fishers, members of the local community, as well activists who have been working on aquaculture, in order to gain a sense of the different natural worlds inhabited by different actors involved with whom intensive ethnographic fieldwork will not be possible. In order to examine attempts to redefine human-animal relations in aquaculture, I will pay special attention to seal management practices. The traditional practice of shooting seals to protect fish stock was been outlawed for a period and then reintroduced in a highly regulated manner that requires its practitioners to be proficient in the relevant mainstream ecological science. I intend to undertake the PDA in Seal Management myself in order to undergo the same processes required of designated seal management operatives. This will provide me with invaluable insights into the kinds of interspecies relationships and environmental consciousness that are officially sanctioned by the state, thus allowing me to assess the extent to which traditional environmental understandings are different from, resilient or susceptible to policy and education.This research addresses an issue which has serious implications for the future of marine livelihoods in Scotland as the level and nature of environmental awareness of resource users will determine to a large extent the ongoing viability of those resources and the communities dependent on them. The focus on aquaculture is also important given the lack of social science studies of the industry in Scotland. By studying aquaculture in the context of Scotland's marine industries as a whole, this project provides long-overdue understandings of where aquaculture fits in with the past, present and future of Scottish marine livelihoods. This will be crucial for policy-makers as the UK negotiates its transition out of the EU and explores the possibilities of independent marine and environmental regulation, as a thorough understanding of stakeholders' circumstances will lead to more robust, equitable and sustainable policy. Theoretically, the project makes a number of important contributions to the field. Drawing on the idea of multiple natures, I offer a test of whether cosmologies research can be useful in understanding Western modernity, to which it is rarely applied. I add a Scottish perspective to the growing field of multispecies ethnography and a test to post-human critiques of modernity in an applied setting. In drawing from theories which critique the land-locked certainties of the nature-culture divide, the project provides an opportunity to interrogate the separation of resource users from living resources. It examines the political claims that aquaculture represents a severance of relationships between man and nature through a neoliberal commons enclosure, thus putting these theoretical claims under empirical scrutiny. It asks whether neoliberal aquaculture can really be conceptualised as a one-way process of humans modifying animals or if the agency of nature complicates the conceptual nature-culture hierarchy at the heart of this critique.

我将在与政策制定者和行业参与者的会议和会议上进行参与式观察，以获得对我的航海线人的生活经历背后的政治和经济的民族志见解。这将通过与渔业生物学家，渔民，当地社区成员以及从事水产养殖的活动家的访谈来补充，以便了解不同参与者居住的不同自然世界，这些参与者无法进行密集的民族志实地考察。为了研究重新定义水产养殖中人与动物关系的尝试，我将特别关注海豹管理实践。射杀海豹以保护鱼类资源的传统做法曾被禁止一段时间，然后以高度管制的方式重新引入，要求从业者精通相关的主流生态科学。我打算自己进行印章管理的PDA，以便经历指定印章管理操作员所需的相同过程。这将为我提供宝贵的见解物种间的关系和环境意识，是由国家正式批准的种类，从而使我能够评估传统的环境理解是不同的程度，这项研究解决了一个问题，这对苏格兰海洋生计的未来有着严重的影响，资源使用者的环境意识将在很大程度上决定这些资源和依赖这些资源的社区的持续生存能力。鉴于苏格兰缺乏对水产养殖业的社会科学研究，对水产养殖的关注也很重要。通过在苏格兰海洋产业的整体背景下研究水产养殖，该项目提供了早就应该了解的水产养殖与苏格兰海洋生计的过去、现在和未来的关系。这对政策制定者至关重要，因为英国正在谈判脱离欧盟的过渡，并探索独立的海洋和环境监管的可能性，因为对利益相关者情况的全面了解将导致更强大，公平和可持续的政策。从理论上讲，该项目对该领域做出了一些重要贡献。借鉴多性质的想法，我提供了一个测试宇宙学研究是否可以在理解西方现代性，它是很少适用于有用的。我增加了苏格兰的角度来看，多物种人种学的不断增长的领域和测试后人类的现代性的批评，在应用设置。该项目借鉴了批评自然-文化鸿沟的内陆地区的理论，提供了一个机会，以质疑资源使用者与生物资源的分离。它考察了水产养殖代表着通过新自由主义公地圈围来断绝人与自然之间关系的政治主张，从而将这些理论主张置于实证审查之下。它提出了新自由主义水产养殖是否真的可以被概念化为人类改变动物的单向过程，或者自然的作用是否使这一批评的核心概念自然文化层次复杂化。