The role of the citizen humanities in the biocultural diversity discourse

Beschreibung

The Sustainable Development Goals aim at a more sustainable and better future. However, they are also being criticized for excluding certain perspectives and topics, such as biocultural diversity, which encompasses biodiversity, cultural diversity and linguistic diversity and their interrelations. Biological, linguistic and cultural diversity do not only constitute biocultural diversity but are, to a large extent, also key aspects studied by the humanities. The humanities also especially address human-nature relations as well as linguistic and cultural diversity. So do the citizen humanities, which are defined as citizen ‘science’ done in the humanities and which engage participants in academic humanities research. Although humans and nature are being studied by different branches of knowledge, namely the sciences and the humanities, they strongly influence each other. Therefore, to study, understand and preserve biocultural diversity the (citizen) sciences and the (citizen) humanities should work together. The responsibility of the (citizen) humanities in the discourse on the Sustainable Development Goals is, among others, to address topics related to the Anthropocene. These include the role of humans who change the planet, languages as a means to experience the world (differently) as well as the relation between human history and natural history. Language and culture offer numerous ways of referring to and interpreting reality. These different ways of seeing the world also offer different approaches to preserving biocultural diversity. Exemplified by three citizen humanities projects in the field of biocultural diversity, this article emphasizes the role of the citizen humanities in the discourse on the Sustainable Development Goals and the Anthropocene. This role includes to reveal dissonances, to address behavioral change or expose different perspectives to scrutiny.

Zeitraum	14 Okt. 2020
Ereignistitel	Citizen Science SDG Conference 2020: Knowledge for Change: A decade of Citizen Science (2020-2030) in support of the SDGs
Veranstaltungstyp	Konferenz
Ort	Berlin, DeutschlandAuf Karte anzeigen
Bekanntheitsgrad	International