Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Movements and Scientific Forestry: Examining the Community Forestry Movement in Indonesia

科学知识是由具有特定地理位置和局部视角的人和机构创造的，并受到国内和国际政治、经济和文化力量的批判性塑造。在各种情况下，通过林业学者与非政府组织、公众压力团体、社区组织和当地人民的合作，丰富了社区林业等环境科学的发展。然而，他们工作的社会可能性在很大程度上还没有得到充分的研究。对学者和民间社会之间关系的基本缺乏理解，与一种更普遍的环境与发展分析模式有关，这种模式将学术林业学者和专业林业工作者仅仅定位为国家权力的工具。这一博士论文研究项目将调查印度尼西亚社会运动和林业科学之间合作的文化方面和空间动态。这位博士生计划研究印度尼西亚学术林学家的复杂和矛盾的立场，以了解他们对森林的社会、政治和学术框架，他们如何将自己的政治立场和知识与国家、资本和社会运动协调起来，以及这种立场如何影响社区管理的森林作为知识对象的构成。学生将学习如何将由社会运动推动和在社会运动中传播的按性别划分的地方知识纳入学术林业科学，以及替代林业科学在塑造社会运动中可能发挥的作用。博士生将使用多地点的人种学方法来跟踪不同规模的关键人物和机构，这些机构具有地方、国家和跨国性质。具体的研究方法包括参与者观察法、结构化开放式访谈法和包括历史研究在内的档案研究。本论文的研究将考察学者和社会运动成员之间的合作中文化、权力和物质现实之间的复杂互动。该项目将超越对传统生态知识的地方性研究，探索自然科学知识如何适应复杂的社会和政治进程。这项研究将通过描述自然科学知识和政治行动的重要交集来调查对发展中世界正在进行的社会关系具有实际意义的问题。通过考察学术林业学者的知识、行动和文化，结合他们与面向社会正义的环境运动成员的联盟，该项目将为基本理解如何有效地将自然科学知识与公民社会和政治相结合作出重大贡献。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立研究事业。

Scientific knowledge is created by people and institutions with particular situated and partial perspectives and has been critically shaped by domestic and international political, economic, and cultural forces. In various contexts, the development of environmental science, such as community forestry, has been enriched with the collaborations of forestry scholars with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), public pressure groups, community-based organizations, and local people. Nevertheless, the social possibilities of their work have been largely understudied. Basic lack of understanding about the relationship between scholars and civil society relates to a more general pattern of analysis of environment and development that positions academic forestry scholars and professional foresters merely as an apparatus of state power. This doctoral dissertation research project will investigate the cultural aspects and spatial dynamics of collaboration between social movements and forestry science in Indonesia. The doctoral candidate plans to study the complex and contradictory position of Indonesian academic foresters in order to understand their social, political, and scholarly framing of forests, how they mediate their political position and knowledge with the state, capital, and social movements, and how this position has affected the constitution of community-managed forests as an object of knowledge. The student will study the adoption of gendered local knowledge promoted by and circulated within social movements into academic forestry science as well as the possible role of alternative forestry science in shaping social movements. The doctoral candidate will use a multi-sited ethnographic approach to follow key figures and institutions across scales that are local, national, and transnational in nature. Specific methods that will be used include participant-observation, structured and open-ended interviews, and archival research including historical study.This dissertation research will examine the complex interaction between culture, power, and material realities within collaborations between academic scholars and members of social movements. The project will move beyond place-based studies of traditional ecological knowledge to explore how natural scientific knowledge fits in to complex social and political processes. The research will investigate issues of practical importance for ongoing societal relations in the developing world by describing important intersections of natural scientific knowledge and political action. By examining the knowledge, actions, and cultures of academic forestry scholars in line with their alliance with members of social-justice-oriented environmental movements, this project will provide significant contributions to basic understanding of how to effectively integrate natural scientific knowledge with civil society and politics. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.