Multispecies storytelling: more-than-human narratives about landscape

该网络将研究多物种的故事可以有助于社区环境中的参与性决策和景观评估。多物种方法已成为自然科学与艺术和人文科学之间重要的跨学科桥梁。这一领域的研究涉及环境人文学科领域，包括丰富多样的方法论以及政治和伦理重点。将这些方法联系起来并将其描述为“多物种”的是一种对自然的非中心思维方式的承诺。多物种视角正被用来批判性地应对气候变化和人类世的紧迫挑战，它们与景观和土地利用问题直接相关，传统的景观利用和估值框架侧重于自然对人类的惠益。景观的叙事介导知识，告知公众的理解，并有助于赋予地点和空间的意义和价值。使用叙事来捕捉个人与地方的互动和参与是行之有效的，讲故事的做法已被证明是一种有效的方法来引出和探索人们对自然的非货币价值。叙事可以帮助建立共识，其中有争议的价值观，想法和信仰被归因于特定的地方。与其将抽象的价值赋予作为单一实体的自然，对一个特定地方的叙述与人类与自然的实际关系相结合。在土地利用和气候变化战略决策考虑到局部影响和风险的情况下，务实的叙事方法强调人与自然之间有意义的互动，可以帮助我们关注重要的事情，并在此过程中为政策提供信息。多物种叙事借鉴叙事作为一种方法，但重新定位了通过超越人类的透镜看待自然的方法。重新思考我们与其他物种的关系会通过讲故事的实践产生新的叙事，从而重塑对景观价值、遗产和美学的理解和知识。该项目将使用多物种方法来思考谁代表自然说话，扩大利益相关者群体，包括人类以外的物种，并使用讲故事的形式来促进当地参与性评估和土地使用决策过程。边山大学和东安格利亚大学是英国当代写作档案馆自然写作档案的所在地。该网络将汇集学者在创造性和关键的多物种方法，以解决景观估值和地方赋权的双重问题。该项目将与一个社区农场合作，该农场位于一个因气候变化影响、适应和风险规划以及不同社区的需求而产生利益冲突的地区。

This network will examine what multispecies storytelling can contribute to participatory decision-making and landscape valuation in community settings. Multispecies approaches have emerged as significant interdisciplinary bridges between the natural sciences and arts and humanities. Research in this area takes place across environmental humanities subject areas and encompasses a rich and diverse set of methodologies and political and ethical emphases. What connects these approaches and characterises them as 'multispecies' is a commitment to non-anthropocentric ways of thinking about nature. Multispecies perspectives are being used to critically address the urgent challenges of climate change and the Anthropocene and they have direct relevance to questions of landscape and land use.Traditional landscape use and valuation frameworks have focused on the benefits of nature for people. Narratives of landscape mediate knowledge, inform public understanding, and contribute to the meanings and values assigned to place and space. The use of narrative to capture individual interactions and engagements with place is well established and storytelling practices have proved to be an effective method to elicit and explore the non-monetary values people attach to nature. Narratives can help to build consensus where contested values, ideas, and beliefs are attributed to specific places. Rather than assigning abstract values to nature as a monolithic entity, narratives of a specific place engage with the actual relations humans have with nature. Where decisions about land use and climate change strategies take account of localised effects and risks, a pragmatic narrative approach emphasises meaningful interactions between humans and nature, can help us to focus on what is significant, and, in doing so, inform policy.Multispecies storytelling draws on narrative as a method but reorients the approach to look at nature through a more-than-human lens. Rethinking our relations with other species invites the production of new narratives through storytelling practices that can reshape understanding and knowledge of landscape value, heritage, and aesthetics. This project will use multispecies approaches to think about who speaks on behalf of nature, enlarge a group of stakeholders to include species other than humans, and use forms of storytelling to contribute to local participatory valuation and decision-making processes about land use.The project is a collaboration between the Centre for Human Animal Studies, Edge Hill University and University of East Anglia which is home to the Nature Writing Archive at the British Archive for Contemporary Writing. The network will bring together scholars working across creative and critical multispecies approaches to address the twin issues of landscape valuation and local empowerment. The project will partner with a community farm located in an area that is subject to competing interests arising from climate change effects, adaptation and risk planning, and the needs of diverse communities.