Description du projet
Associer les connaissances scientifiques et indigènes sur le changement climatique pour éclairer les politiques futures
L’objectif du projet COSMOVIS, financé par l’UE, consiste à examiner la nature des futures initiatives environnementales mondiales. Il pose deux questions principales: comment les scientifiques, chamans, prêtres et autres détenteurs de connaissances animistes indigènes peuvent collaborer dans des régions vulnérables au changement climatique, et quelle est la nature de la géopolitique du changement climatique et des politiques qui l’entourent. Le projet rassemble des anthropologues, des ethnologues, des historiens et des philosophes de la science et de l’éthique, des experts en études sur les religions, des chercheurs dans les domaines spatial et satellitaire, des dirigeants indigènes et des scientifiques de l’environnement pour examiner la manière dont est géré le changement climatique aux frontières ethniques de la Chine et de la Russie. Un des paramètres importants sur lequel le projet se concentrera est la relation de collaboration entre les chercheurs et les populations autochtones, qui contribuera à traduire des résultats collectifs en perspectives partagées.
Objectif
Cosmological Visionaries explores what global environmental initiatives of the future will look like, by asking: (1) How can scientists, shamans, priests, and other indigenous holders of animistic knowledge collaborate in regions of climatic vulnerability and (2) What are the geopolitics of climate change and the policies that surround it? Starting from the position that cosmology often evokes religious ways of knowing or being, the project brings together anthropologists, ethnologists, historians and philosophers of science and ethics, religious studies experts, space and satellite researchers, indigenous leaders and environmental scientists to examine how climate change is managed at the ethnic borderlands of China and Russia. The widespread deforestation undertaken in Siberia to meet Chinese market demands for wood is melting Russia’s vast permafrost, accelerating the release of ancient greenhouse gases, which carbon capture and storage technologies of the future will not manage. Our project is an academic and a practical intervention driven by two research teams – the China Team and the Russia Team – with a fourfold methodology. Firstly, we will uncover the scientific and indigenous views on climate change in Southwest China and Siberia. Secondly, we will mobilise dialogues between scientists and animistic peoples to mutually inform their approaches to climate change. Thirdly, we will explore how collaboration can benefit both parties. Fourthly, we will map the policies and geopolitics of climate change in China and Russia. Scientists who collaborate with indigenous peoples can get more subtle data than when working alone. Indigenous persons who supply scientists with advice and logistical help can source scientific initiatives for managing local climate change. This feedback loop between scientists and indigenous peoples, advocating for each other, can enable religious leaders and scientists to translate shared findings into visions that everyone can commit to.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringcarbon capture engineering
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyphysical cosmology
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesforestry
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ERC-SyG - Synergy grantInstitution d’accueil
WC2R 2LS London
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