进入野外:不确定的边界和可持续的人与自然的互动
1School of Education & Institute for Lifecourse Development, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom.
Frontiers in sociology
|April 10, 2024
概括
西方文化在语言上将人类与自然分开,以获得政治和经济利益,创造了一个不健康的范式. 需要一种新的方法来实现平衡的人与自然的互动和重生.
科学领域:
- 哲学 哲学 是一个哲学.
- 环境人文学科 环境人文学科
- 社会科学 社会科学 社会科学
背景情况:
- 西方文化在历史上将人类与动物和自然区分开来,将文明与城市联系在一起,并驱逐了野生动物.
- 这种语言和哲学上的分离,植根于像拉丁语"civitas"中的"文明"这样的术语,在人类社会和自然世界之间创造了一个虚假的二分法.
- 感知到的野生往往是一个哲学构造,在自然界中几乎没有真正的未被触及.
研究的目的:
- 追踪人类与其动物起源和自然环境的语言和哲学分离.
- 探索人类与自然之间的复杂关系,强调当前范式的有害影响.
- 为理解和促进健康的人与自然的互动提出一个新的框架.
主要方法:
- 对将人类与自然分开的语言和哲学构造的分析.
- 人文和社会科学关于人与自然相互作用的信息的并置.
- 应用工艺制造的方法,结合各种知识的方式来破坏传统的确定性.
主要成果:
- 当前由政治和经济利益驱动的人与自然的分离模式,对人类和环境都有害.
- 关于自然和人类在自然中的地位的传统确定性受到气候不稳定等当代问题的复杂性挑战.
- 这项研究揭示了对人与自然关系的更完整理解的必要性,包括重生和生命力等概念.
结论:
- 为了实现健康的人与自然的互动,向新范式的根本转变至关重要.
- 这种新范式必须拥抱跨学科的方法和灵活的概念界限,以应对复杂的环境和社会挑战.
- 整合多样化的知识系统,包括与重新野生化和土著智慧相关的知识系统,对于设想可持续未来至关重要.
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