Universities, Climate Resilience, and Future-Worlding: An Ethnographic Exploration of Knowledge Networks in the Pacific and Caribbean Region

在应对气候变化问题所需的国际合作努力中，大学可以走在前列。在这项研究中，我的目标是探索太平洋大学及其更广泛的信息社区内的气候知识网络。我将调查城市沿海社区内气候风险和食物复原力的现状知识，以及大学和社区组织之间的知识流动。探索大学创造和传播的知识中创造性紧张和脱节的地方，以及这些社区中活的、当地的气候知识，将提供一个更微妙的观点，了解气候知识是如何形成和赋予权威的。通过强调知识网络如何在预先建立的机构和社会环境中纠缠在一起，我将跟踪太平洋和加勒比地区大学试图建立公平的虚拟知识网络的途径。这项研究将支持公共大学协会气候复原力网络，促进小岛屿发展中国家(SID)可持续发展的内生模式。

Universities can be at the forefront of the internationalcollaborative effort necessary to address climate changeissues. In this study, I aim to explore climate knowledgenetworks within Pacific universities and their wider informationcommunities. I will investigate situated knowledges on climaterisk and food resilience within urban coastal communities andthe flows of knowledge between universities and community basedorganisations. Probing sites of creative tension anddisjuncture in the knowledges produced and disseminated byuniversities and the lived, vernacular knowledge of climate inthese communities will provide a more nuanced view of howclimate knowledges are formed and given authority. Throughhighlighting the ways in which knowledge networks areentangled in the pre-established institutional and social milieu,I will track pathways attempting an equitable virtual knowledgenetwork across Pacific and Caribbean universities. Thisresearch will support the Association of CommonwealthUniversities Climate Resilience Network promotingendogenous modes of sustainable development in small islanddeveloping states (SIDS).