Doctoral Dissertation Research Domesticating the Ocean: The Work of Conservation in Southwestern Okinawa

博士论文研究：驯化海洋：冲绳西南部的保护工作为了确保生物多样性和人类福祉，海洋环境的管理非常重要。确保这些目标的新技术和政策在不同的环境中得到了追求，但人们对它们如何转化为社会响应和生态稳健的保护实践知之甚少。为了解决这一问题，本研究调查生物多样性增强技术，海洋保护，并在冲绳西南部的海洋的看法之间的关系。在那里，国际环保主义者使用国家工业开发的海洋技术来管理海洋，对海景的物理外观及其对沿海居民的社会意义产生了重大影响。本研究将使用民族志、访谈和档案研究方法，调查保护主义者、研究人员和海洋工人如何想象和构建海洋环境。 PI将研究新的管理方法如何改变对海洋的长期看法，以及如何整合和协调有关海洋的科学和非科学思想。这项研究将提供新的理论知识的做法和国际保护的后果，不同种类的知识是如何调和，以及如何保护的做法是喜欢国家身份。研究结果将以英文和日文向广大受众传播。这些发现将有助于学者和政策制定者更好地了解如何改变对环境的态度和管理发生，以及如何改善管理。

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Domesticating the Ocean: The Work of Conservation in Southwestern OkinawaMarine environments are important to manage in order to ensure biodiversity and human well-being. New technologies and policies to ensure these goals have pursued in varied settings, yet little is known about how they translate into to socially responsive and ecologically robust conservation practices. To address this issue, this research investigates the relationship between biodiversity-enhancing technologies, marine conservation, and perceptions of the ocean in southwestern Okinawa. There, international conservationists use marine technologies developed by national industries to manage the ocean, with significant impacts on the physical appearance of the seascape and its social meanings for coastal residents. The research will use ethnographic, interview, and archival research methods to investigate how conservationists, researchers, and marine laborers imagine and construct the ocean environment. The PIs will examine how new methods of management change long-standing perceptions of the ocean, and how scientific and nonscientific ideas about the ocean are integrated and reconciled. This research will provide new theoretical knowledge about the practices and consequences of international conservation, how different kinds of knowledges are reconciled, and how conservation practices are liked to national identities. Research findings will be disseminated to a wide range of audiences, in both English and Japanese. These findings will help scholars and policymakers to better understand how changes in attitudes toward and the management of environments take place, and how management can be improved.