Collaborative Research: Event Ethnography of the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

这个合作项目涉及来自几所大学的一个国际研究小组，他们将在2010年10月在日本名古屋举行的第十届生物多样性公约缔约方会议上开展为期10天的民族志合作活动。这样的会议是正在进行的、更广泛的政策制定过程中谈判和决策的场所或时刻，它们为研究人员提供了机会，检查关于保护的想法是如何产生的，获得吸引力，以及彼此之间是如何竞争、辩论和权衡的。智力价值这项研究探索了确定保护是什么、谁参与了这些过程以及产生了什么后果的过程。研究人员将进行人种学研究，以反映会议作为实地地点的非传统性质。协作团队比单独的研究人员更有能力捕捉会议的动态并处理交叉主题。该建议建立在2008年国际自然保护联盟第四届世界保护大会上举办的第一次认知事件民族志的经验和教训的基础上。潜在的更广泛的影响核心研究人员将招募一个多样化的团队，包括来自不同学科、国家、性别和种族的研究人员。这种多样性将有助于扩大对STEM领域的参与。作为多所大学和跨学科的合作努力，该项目还将有助于建立和加强伙伴关系。

IntroductionThis collaborative project involves an international team of researchers from several universities that will undertake a Collaborative Event Ethnography at the 10th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan, over 10 days in October 2010. Such meetings are sites or moments of negotiation and decision-making in on-going, broader policy-making processes, and they provide opportunities for researchers to examine how ideas about conservation emerge, gain traction, and are contested, debated and traded-off against one another.Intellectual MeritThis research probes the processes involved in determining what conservation is, who participates in such processes, and with what consequences. Researchers will engage in ethnographic research practices modified to reflect the untraditional nature of meetings as field sites. A collaborative team is better able than individual researchers to capture the dynamics of meetings and to address crosscutting themes. The proposal builds on experiences with and lessons learned from the first Cognitive Event Ethnography, undertaken at the 4th World Conservation Congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in 2008.Potential Broader ImpactsThe core researchers will recruit a diverse team, including researchers from different disciplines, countries, genders and ethnicities. The diversity will serve to broaden participation in STEM areas. As a collaborative effort among multiple universities and across disciplines, the project will also serve to build and strengthen partnerships.