CULTIVATING WELLBEING IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: TOUCH-BASED AGROECOLOGY AS A POLITICAL ACT IN SOUTHERN ECUADOR

该项目建立在一种方法论的基础上，该方法论引起了人们对感官体验和具体知识的关注，该项目补充了新兴的研究，研究非西方本体论如何为有效扭转人类世的社会生态危机提供见解。我的重点是触觉：这种感觉创造的特殊互惠性--我们不能在不同时被触摸的情况下触摸他人--如何使人类与超越人类和其他人类建立更亲密、互惠的关系。我将建立在我以前的研究与RAA，农民农业生态网络在厄瓜多尔的生物多样性安第斯地区。我将探讨如何RAA的“触摸为基础的农业生态学”（农业生态学集中在人与自然之间的直接身体接触和互惠）和独特的本体论集中在“福祉”的整体概念可以：1）产生关怀男性，拥抱相互依赖和关系的价值观。2)挑战厄瓜多尔普遍存在的权力关系，其特点是性别不平等和对自然的掠夺关系，包括工业化农业。3)超越“感官的殖民性”：我提出这个术语是为了帮助探索感官如何调解互惠关系。除了刺激人类学关于人类世性别差异和采掘社会生态关系的辩论外，一个公开的感官展览将向更广泛的观众传播我的发现。

Founded on a methodology that draws attention to sensory experiences and embodied knowledge, this project complements burgeoning research examining how non-Western ontologies offer insights into effectively reversing socioecological crises in the Anthropocene. My focus is the sense of touch: how the particular reciprocity this sense creates - we cannot touch others without simultaneously being touched - brings humans into a more intimate, reciprocal relationship with more-than-humans and other humans. I will build on my previous research with RAA, a peasant agroecological network in Ecuador's biodiverse Andean region. I will explore how RAA's 'touch-based agroecology' (agroecology centred on direct physical contact and reciprocity between humans and nature) and distinctive ontology centred on holistic notions of 'well-being' can: 1) Produce caring masculinities that embrace values of interdependency and relationality. 2) Challenge prevailing power relations in Ecuador characterised by gender inequities and extractive relations towards nature, including industrial agriculture. 3) Transcend the 'coloniality of senses': a term I propose to help explore how the senses might mediate reciprocal relationships. In addition to stimulating anthropological debate around gender disparities and extractive socioecological relationships in the Anthropocene, a public, sensory exhibition will disseminate my findings to a wider audience.