Narratives of Environmental Risk: Fate, Luck and Fortune

环境风险的叙述：命运、运气和财富

• 批准号: AH/N006062/1
• 负责人: Esther Eidinow
• 金额: $ 3.54万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FN006062%2F1
• 关键词: Narratives; Environmental; Risk; Fate; Luck

The proposed network brings together scholars from across different disciplines (arts, humanities, social and physical sciences; see Academic Beneficiaries), creative writers, business strategists and policy makers to investigate the presence and role of concepts of fate, luck and fortune (hereafter FLF) in discussions of environmental risks, to develop a nuanced understanding of the variety of ways in which, in different historical and geographical contexts, concepts of FLF have played a role or roles in perceptions and expressions of risk, and responses to it, and continue to do so. In modern post-enlightenment western culture, risk tends to be described in terms of quantification. Setting FLF side-by-side with risk may seem incongruous: it has been argued that the idea of risk is what differentiates the modern era; risk management has become an arena of expertise, and specialised education and training. However, it is now widely accepted that people respond less to objective information about risks and take more notice of their own perceptions of danger, shaped by the implicit assumptions of their particular culture, including the role of FLF; nevertheless, these conceptions and the role that they play in shaping decision-making are rarely if ever made explicit and addressed. This network aims to provide a systematic overview of the ways in which concepts of FLF have been, and continue to be expressed in historical, contemporary and futuristic narratives concerned with environmental risk, for example, from ancient Greek dedications to the goddess tuche ('Chance'), to contemporary climate change fiction. Such an exploration will not only bring insights from other cultures, but also provide new perspectives on contemporary narratives of environmental risk-with the potential to reconsider current approaches to responses to environmental risk. There are three planned workshops addressing the following themes: - Historicising the role of FLF, providing scholars who study environmental risks with clarification of the development of these ideas and their use in this context;- Developing new policy approaches, exploring how a more thorough understanding of the role of FLF in narratives of environmental risk may be used to develop new responses in current policy; - The popularisation of FLF, exploring the ways in which conceptions of FLF (or personifications of abstract powers) remain powerful in historical and current discourses (visual, written and oral) concerned with environmental risks, and how they shape perceptions of agency.The project aims to provide insights that that will develop beyond the usual assumptions about environmental risks, gaining new perspectives, developing new questions and approaches to data, working with new evidence and methodologies. This will be achieved by bringing together the heuristic tools of different disciplines across the arts and humanities, sciences and social sciences. The network will also include participants from a broad range of publics and key stakeholders, including those working at the science - policy interface, in business, but also in the creative arts. As well as helping to develop a shared arena of research, the network aims to contribute to relevant public and policy conversations concerning the nature and role of fate luck and fortune in contemporary society, and in attitudes to environmental risks.

拟议的网络汇集了来自不同学科（艺术、人文、社会和物理科学；参见学术受益人）的学者、创意作家、商业战略家和政策制定者，以研究命运、运气和财富概念的存在和作用（以下简称 FLF） ）在讨论环境风险时，对在不同的历史和地理背景下FLF概念在风险认知和表达以及应对风险中发挥作用的各种方式有一个细致的了解，并继续这样做。 在现代后启蒙运动的西方文化中，风险往往用量化来描述。将 FLF 与风险放在一起似乎不太协调：有人认为风险的概念是现代时代的区别所在。风险管理已成为专业知识、专门教育和培训的领域。然而，现在人们普遍认为，人们对有关风险的客观信息反应较少，而更多地关注自己对危险的看法，这种看法是由其特定文化的隐含假设（包括 FLF 的作用）所形成的；然而，这些概念及其在制定决策过程中所发挥的作用很少得到明确和解决。 该网络旨在系统地概述 FLF 概念在与环境风险有关的历史、当代和未来主义叙事中已经并将继续表达的方式，例如古希腊对女神 tuche 的奉献（“机会”） '），到当代气候变化小说。这样的探索不仅会带来来自其他文化的见解，还会为当代环境风险叙事提供新的视角，并有可能重新考虑当前应对环境风险的方法。 计划举办三个研讨会，讨论以下主题： - 历史化 FLF 的作用，为研究环境风险的学者澄清这些想法的发展及其在这一背景下的使用； - 制定新的政策方法，探索如何更彻底地理解环境风险FLF 在环境风险叙述中的作用可用于制定当前政策的新应对措施； - FLF的普及，探索FLF（或抽象权力的拟人化）概念在与环境风险有关的历史和当前话语（视觉、书面和口头）中保持强大力量的方式，以及它们如何塑造对机构的看法。该项目旨在提供超越对环境风险的通常假设的见解，获得新的视角，提出新的问题和数据方法，使用新的证据和方法。这将通过汇集艺术和人文、科学和社会科学不同学科的启发式工具来实现。该网络还将包括来自广泛公众和主要利益相关者的参与者，包括那些在科学-政策界面、商业以及创意艺术领域工作的人。除了帮助开发共享研究领域外，该网络还旨在促进有关命运运气和财富在当代社会中的性质和作用以及对环境风险的态度的相关公共和政策对话。

项目成果

The Ancient Greek Pharmakos Rituals A Study in Mistrust

古希腊法尔科斯仪式对不信任的研究

• DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341662
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Numen
• 作者: Eidinow E

Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience

古代宗教经验的认知方法

• DOI: 10.1017/9781009019927.006
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Eidinow E

I-Thou-Nymph: a relational approach to ancient Greek religious devotion

我-你-宁芙：古希腊宗教信仰的关系方法

• DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2022.2150401
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Religion
• 影响因子: 1
• 作者: Eidinow E

The aesthetics of story-telling as a technology of the plausible

讲故事的美学作为一种看似合理的技术

• DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2016.09.005
• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: Futures
• 影响因子: 3
• 作者: Eidinow E

Environmental risk narratives in historical perspective: from early warnings to 'risk society' blame

历史视角下的环境风险叙事：从早期预警到“风险社会”指责

• DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2018.1517383
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Journal of Risk Research
• 影响因子: 5.1
• 作者: Burgess A