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

该合作项目涉及来自几所大学的国际研究人员团队，他们将在2010年10月在日本名古屋举行的生物多样性公约缔约方第十届会议上开展为期10天的合作活动人种学。这些会议是正在进行的更广泛的政策制定过程中的谈判和决策的场所或时刻，它们为研究人员提供了机会，以研究有关保护的想法如何出现，获得牵引力，以及相互竞争，辩论和权衡。智力优势本研究探讨了确定保护是什么的过程，谁参与了这样的过程，以及有什么后果。研究人员将从事人种学研究的做法修改，以反映非传统性质的会议作为外地网站。一个协作的团队比单个研究人员更能捕捉会议的动态并处理跨领域的主题。该提案借鉴了2008年国际自然保护联盟第四届世界自然保护大会上开展的第一次认知事件人种学的经验和教训。核心研究人员将招募一个多元化的团队，包括来自不同学科、国家、性别和种族的研究人员。多样性将有助于扩大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。

Introduction This 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 Merit This 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 Impacts The 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.