Amended animation: negotiating with the 'more-than-human' topographies of belief systems as a platform to approach climate change in the Himalayas

在整个喜马拉雅地区（主要是，尽管不是唯一的，在佛教文化地区），有一个共同的观点，即景观是由有知觉的超自然生物的万神殿所激活的。通过“道德气候”的概念，这一生动的景观与人类的行为有机地联系在一起——人类对景观神的挑衅会以作物歉收、冰雹和/或不利天气的形式进行报复。这些信念决定性地构成了土著环境知识的框架，甚至当进口的“科学/唯物主义”知识系统在一般人群中得到承认时，这些信念往往仍然存在（并共存）。喜马拉雅地区极易受到迫在眉睫和持续的气候变化的影响；在这种背景下，作为环境行动框架基础的观念和信仰体系可能会变得更加重要。该项目旨在更清楚地了解土著对自然环境感知的世界观，以及其与人类行为的关联，并质疑这些观点如何影响对气候变化的感知和采取的行动。该研究首先提出了一个问题，即人们对“有知觉的”或“超越人类的”景观的共同信念如何影响人们对气候变化（可能包括历史上的气候变化）的威胁、机遇或行动的看法。其次，我将考虑这种世界观是否鼓励对气候变化采取实际行动、宿命论或被动（包括唯一诉诸仪式和祈祷）。这可能提供有关土著为减缓气候变化所作努力的有用信息，这些信息可用于其他地方。最后，将考虑整个区域的地缘政治结构和敏感性的作用：即，它们可能如何抑制或加强人类与“超越人类”的景观之间的关系的表达，从而在此基础上可能采取哪些行动来减缓气候变化。气候变化的未来路径与当地人民的偏好和决策有着内在的联系，而这些偏好和决策往往位于传统和土著知识体系中；因此，这些发现可能对制定未来的气候政策和干预措施具有重要意义。该项目的具体实地地点尚未最终确定，但可能落在印度北部、尼泊尔或不丹境内。

Across the Himalayan region (predominantly, although not exclusively, within culturally Buddhist areas), there exists a shared outlook that the landscape is animated by a pantheon of sentient supernatural beings. This animated landscape is integrally linked to human actions through the notion of a 'moral climate' - the idea that the provocation of landscape deities by humans engenders retaliation in the form of crop failure, hail and/or unfavourable weather. These convictions have decisively framed indigenous environmental knowledges, and often persist (and coexist) even when imported "scientific/materialistic" knowledge systems are acknowledged within the general population. The Himalayan region is extremely vulnerable to imminent and ongoing climatic changes; under this backdrop, perceptions and belief systems which undergird frameworks for environmental action may attain heightened significance. This project seeks to gain a clearer understanding of the indigenous worldview concerning the perceived sentience of the physical environment, and its imputed connection with human behaviour, and questions how these views might inflect perceptions of - and actions taken towards - a changing climate.The research asks, firstly, how a shared belief in a 'sentient' or 'more-than-human' landscape can inform perceptions of threats, opportunities, or actions taken towards climate change (which may include historical climate change). Secondly, I will consider if this worldview encourages practical action, fatalism or passivity [which includes a sole recourse to ritual and prayer] towards climate change. This may impart useful information on indigenous efforts towards climate change mitigation, which could be applied elsewhere. Finally, the role geopolitical structures and sensitivities across this region will be considered: namely, how they might inhibit or enhance how the relationship between humans and a 'more-than-human' landscape is expressed, and thus what actions might be taken towards climate change mitigation on this basis. Future pathways for climate change are inherently connected with local people's preferences and decision-making, which are often situated in traditional and indigenous knowledge systems; as such, these findings may prove significant to pitching future climate policies and interventions. A specific field site for this project has yet to be finalised, but is likely to fall within Northern India, Nepal, or Bhutan.