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摘要
我们的叙述在多大程度上支持了生态保护工作?虽然反灭绝保护工作需要仔细关注不稳定性和模糊性的现实,但这并不一定反映在我们对此类工作的公开叙述中。相反,正如让·吉奥诺(Jean Giono) 1953年的短篇小说《种树的人》(The man who种树)所代表的那样,许多保护叙事都是以英雄的方式进行的,将保护劳动定义为确保一个明显的“善”的永久存在。在这篇文章中,我认为与实践佛教和志愿植树,埃罗尔·格里夫斯和他的工作组织,并与奉献的人一起帮助重建惠灵顿市边缘的阿胡马兰吉山上的原生森林。Errol的工作旨在为濒临灭绝的kākā (Nestor meridionalis)创造一个繁荣的原生栖息地,这在很大程度上符合新西兰Aoteaora/新西兰的主流反灭绝保护目标。然而,他的作品是由明显的非英雄叙事构成的,强调合作、模棱两可和不稳定——强调与喜剧更密切相关,约瑟夫·米克尔认为这种叙事模式更好地考虑了生态适应和回应。在本文中,我考虑了各种关系本体论和非英雄叙事所提供的资源,这些资源既能很好地应对生态现实,又能维持繁荣世界的工作,特别是在我们当前明显不稳定的时代。
A Multispecies Collective Planting Trees: Tending to Life and Making Meaning Outside of the Conservation Heroic
To what extent do our narratives support the work of ecological care? While working in anti-extinction conservation requires paying careful attention to the realities of precarity and ambiguity, this is not necessarily reflected in our public narratives of such work. Instead, as is typified in Jean Giono’s 1953 short story ‘The man who planted trees’, many conservation narratives are pitched in heroic modes, framing conservation labour as working to secure an obvious ‘good’ in perpetuity. In this paper, I think with practicing Buddhist and volunteer tree planter, Errol Greaves, and his work organising and working with dedicated humans helping to regenerate native forest on Te Ahumairangi Hill at the edge of Wellington City. Aiming to create a flourishing native habitat to support the endangered kākā (Nestor meridionalis), Errol’s work is largely in line with mainstream anti-extinction conservation goals in Aoteaora/New Zealand. However, his labour is framed by distinctly non-heroic narratives emphasising cooperation, ambiguity and precarity—emphases more closely related to the comedic, a mode of narration which Joseph Meeker identifies as better allowing for both ecological accommodation and responsiveness. In this paper, I consider the resources offered by various relational ontologies and non-heroic narratives for both responding well to ecological realities and sustaining work for a flourishing world, particularly in our current times of radically apparent precarity.
期刊介绍:
Cultural Studies Review is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the publication and circulation of quality thinking in cultural studies—in particular work that draws out new kinds of politics, as they emerge in diverse sites. We are interested in writing that shapes new relationships between social groups, cultural practices and forms of knowledge and which provides some account of the questions motivating its production. We welcome work from any discipline that meets these aims. Aware that new thinking in cultural studies may produce a new poetics we have a dedicated new writing section to encourage the publication of works of critical innovation, political intervention and creative textuality.