Universities, Climate Resilience, and Future-Worlding: An Ethnographic Exploration of Knowledge Networks in the Pacific and Caribbean Region

大学可以站在应对气候变化问题所需的国际合作努力的最前沿。在这项研究中，我的目标是探索太平洋大学及其更广泛的信息社区内的气候知识工作。我将调查在城市沿海社区内的气候物质和粮食弹性的知识，以及大学和社区组织之间的知识流动。探索大学产生和传播的知识与这些社区中生活的、本土的气候知识之间的创造性张力和脱节点，将为气候知识的形成和权威性提供一个更细致入微的视角。在强调知识网络如何与预先建立的机构和社会环境纠缠在一起的同时，我将跟踪试图在太平洋和加勒比地区的大学建立公平的虚拟知识网络的途径。这项研究将支持英联邦大学气候弹性网络协会，促进小岛屿发展中国家（SIDS）的可持续发展内生模式。

Universities can be at the forefront of the internationalcollaborative effort necessary to address climate changeissues. In this study, I aim to explore climate knowledgenetworks within Pacific universities and their wider informationcommunities. I will investigate situated knowledges on climaterisk and food resilience within urban coastal communities andthe flows of knowledge between universities and community basedorganisations. Probing sites of creative tension anddisjuncture in the knowledges produced and disseminated byuniversities and the lived, vernacular knowledge of climate inthese communities will provide a more nuanced view of howclimate knowledges are formed and given authority. Throughhighlighting the ways in which knowledge networks areentangled in the pre-established institutional and social milieu,I will track pathways attempting an equitable virtual knowledgenetwork across Pacific and Caribbean universities. Thisresearch will support the Association of CommonwealthUniversities Climate Resilience Network promotingendogenous modes of sustainable development in small islanddeveloping states (SIDS).