Description du projet
Le patrimoine au temps de la pénurie d’eau
Les fleuves font partie de notre patrimoine mondial et jouent un rôle clé dans les efforts mondiaux pour un développement durable lié à la disponibilité de l’eau. Les trois sources d’eau les plus importantes sont le fleuve Jaune, le Yangtsé et le Mékong qui prennent leur source dans la province du Qinghai de la région du Tibet, en Chine. Les populations locales jouent un rôle clé dans la préservation du patrimoine, y compris des fleuves. Cependant, le Tibet est une question sensible en Chine. Le projet HYSOTIB, financé par l’UE, vise à étudier la relation entre le patrimoine et les études sur l’eau, en tenant compte des frontières ethniques, écologiques et régionales existantes. Le projet offrira de nouvelles connaissances sur les défis environnementaux et humains dans le respect du programme de coopération stratégique UE-Chine 2020.
Objectif
Global water challenges call urgently today for additional and deeper research by social scientists in order to achieve sustainability.
By combining methods of geo-morphology and anthropology, HYSOTIB will provide an in-depth ethnographic study of one of the globe’s key river heritage landscapes – the China’s Qinghai Headwaters including the sources of the Yellow, Yangtze and Mekong rivers. The on-going transformation of the the Qinghai headwaters into a national park hinges on a profound socio-ecological paradox, where the locals (97% ethnic Tibetan) are considered by Chinese authorities as both drivers of environmental impact as well as central to local natural and cultural heritage preservation practices. HYSOTIB will disentagle the underlying dynamics of this phenomenon by investigating socio-cultural and environmental issues, thus bridging the still huge scientific gap between heritage- and water/river studies. The primary fieldwork will take place at the upper reaches of the Yangtze river in the Yushu Tibetan Prefecture (Qinghai Province). Selected case-study areas from the Three-River Source National Nature Reserve will be examined as hydro-social contexts of global encounters arising within defined ecological, ethnic and territorial boundaries.
Thanks to the researcher’s knowledge in Tibetan and Chinese language, and her previous fieldwork experience in Tibetan areas of China, HYSOTIB will provide a timely and improved understanding of the global context. Urgent environmental and anthropic risks, currently at the core of the EU-China 2020 Strategic Cooperation Agenda, will be addressed. The training in river science and heritage studies at the universities of Auckland (NZ) and Ca’ Foscari in Venice (IT) will significantly cement the candidate’s status as a leading geo-social scientist.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
30123 Venezia
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