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A case study in citizen environmental humanities: creating a participatory plant story website. 公民环境人文案例研究：创建参与式植物故事网站。

IF 1.9 0 PHILOSOPHY

Midwest Studies in Philosophy

Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-02-10 DOI: 10.1007/s13412-021-00744-8

Tina Gianquitto, Lauren LaFauci

Public engagement in crowd-sourced science projects such as iNaturalist or the Audubon Christmas Bird Count is a long-established practice within environmental studies and sciences. As a corollary to these "citizen science" efforts, "citizen humanities" engages public participation in humanities research and/or with humanities tools such as creative writing, photography, art-making, or conducting and recording interviews. In this essay, we outline our work creating a citizen environmental humanities website, Herbaria 3.0, including our motivations, process, and theoretical underpinnings. This project draws upon the critical understanding within environmental studies of the importance of narrative and storytelling for fostering a connection and commitment to environments and nonhuman beings. Situated within the field of environmental humanities, our website solicits, collects, and archives stories about the manifold relationships between plants and people, inviting visitors to read, share, or write their own story for digital publication. The kind of environmental storytelling that results, we argue, can (1) enrich our conceptualization of attachment to places, (2) expand our notion of what "counts" as an encounter with nature, and (3) help us recognize the agency of individual plants. We conclude that similar citizen humanities projects are crucial to the ongoing work of environmental humanities and environmental studies at large, for it is through such public engagement that we can meet the cultural challenges that seeded, and the societal problems occasioned by, ongoing climate change.

公众参与诸如 iNaturalist 或奥杜邦圣诞鸟类计数之类的众包科学项目，是环境研究和科学领域由来已久的做法。作为这些 "公民科学 "工作的必然结果，"公民人文 "让公众参与人文研究和/或使用人文工具，如创意写作、摄影、艺术创作或进行和记录访谈。在这篇文章中，我们将概述我们创建公民环境人文网站 Herbaria 3.0 的工作，包括我们的动机、过程和理论基础。该项目借鉴了环境研究中对叙事和讲故事对于促进与环境和非人类的联系和承诺的重要性的重要认识。我们的网站立足于环境人文领域，征集、收集和存档有关植物与人类之间多方面关系的故事，邀请访问者阅读、分享或撰写自己的故事，并以数字形式出版。我们认为，由此产生的环境故事可以：(1) 丰富我们对地方依恋的概念；(2) 拓展我们与自然 "相遇 "的概念；(3) 帮助我们认识到单个植物的作用。我们的结论是，类似的公民人文学科项目对于环境人文学科和环境研究的持续工作至关重要，因为只有通过这样的公众参与，我们才能应对气候变化带来的文化挑战和社会问题。

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