Reversing the Gaze: Knowledge Stories and the Struggles for Community Land Rights in Scotland

扭转目光：知识故事和苏格兰社区土地权利的斗争

• 批准号: ES/X010872/1
• 负责人: Atenchong Talleh Nkobou
• 金额: $ 28.24万
• 依托单位: Royal Agricultural University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX010872%2F1
• 关键词: Reversing; Gaze; Knowledge; Stories; Struggles

This research uniquely employs knowledge and experiences from the global South as a fresh lens through which we review the progressive nature of community land rights as a means for achieving sustainable development in Scotland and beyond. Our research views community land rights not only as a geographically-bounded concept but as a form of land ownership and practice that has often been perceived as 'backward' within a predominantly market-driven global political economy. The project aims to generate new and critical insights into the future of agriculture and sustainable land management in Scotland and the wider UK. The research will examine contested concepts such as 'sustainable development', the land-use outcomes of the 'just transition' and questions of inclusivity within Scottish land legislation and debates. To answer these questions, the project will involve participatory action research, in-depth interviews, photo-elicitation techniques, workshops, exhibitions, and dialogues to explore alternative ideas and knowledge within the struggles for community land rights. We aim to reveal the types of knowledge embedded in community land practices. For example, photographs will uncover knowledge about land use and ownership, including human functions, quality of life, and the nature of well-being within the struggles for community land rights in Scotland. Additionally, as a novel approach to research on land reform in Scotland, we will rely on the methodological guidelines from the Popular University of Social Movements, which will involve the critical evaluation and valorisation of the wide range of knowledge and practices on community land. This process is empowering because it recognises the existence of many possible forms of knowledge that need to be made legible so that they can contribute to constructing a viable alternative to sustainable land use. Furthermore, our research approach considers community members as co-investigators and custodians of knowledge as they visualise and create self-reflective artefacts and records of their everyday realities and attachments to land. The study creates contexts and opportunities for mutual learning on questions about equitable access to and control over natural resources, including sustainable land use. The research will involve nine purposively-selected community land activists from Scotland, Tanzania, and South Africa to engage with and provide new insights into the knowledge generated from Scotland's land reform journey. We believe synergies between Scotland's community land struggles and those in the global South can be established through a shared understanding of the potential importance of equitable and sustainable land-use practices. Arguably, Scotland's struggle for community land rights is analogous to struggles for land rights waged over many decades in countries like Tanzania and South Africa. In many cases, these contestations over land rights are informed by increased awareness of a rights-based push for land reforms, sustainability, climate change and environmental protection. Through these knowledge co-production processes, our project will aim to achieve the following: (i) To progress a critical understanding of the role of community land rights as a route to sustainable development and contribute to theoretical perspectives on progressive property rights; (ii) To support a community of practice working towards sustainable land rights and strengthen North-South research cooperation; (iii) To contribute to policy development on sustainable and inclusive land policies in Scotland, the UK, and broader international contexts, and finally, (iv) To raise public awareness of land reform and community land ownership as an alternative to private property ownership models through curated physical and online exhibitions.

这项研究独特地采用了全球南部的知识和经验，作为新鲜的镜头，我们通过该视角回顾了社区土地权的进步性质，作为实现苏格兰及其他地区可持续发展的手段。我们的研究认为，社区土地权不仅是一个地理结合的概念，而且是一种土地所有权和实践的一种形式，在全球政治经济学中通常被认为是“向后”的。该项目旨在为苏格兰和更广泛的英国的农业和可持续土地管理的未来产生新的和重要的见解。该研究将研究有争议的概念，例如“可持续发展”，“正义过渡”的土地利用成果以及苏格兰土地立法和辩论中的包容性问题。为了回答这些问题，该项目将涉及参与式行动研究，深入的访谈，照片吸引力技术，研讨会，展览和对话，以探索为社区土地权利而奋斗的替代思想和知识。我们旨在揭示社区土地实践中嵌入的知识类型。例如，照片将发现有关土地使用和所有权的知识，包括人类的职能，生活质量以及苏格兰社区土地权利斗争中幸福感的本质。此外，作为苏格兰土地改革研究的新方法，我们将依靠流行的社会运动大学的方法论指南，这将涉及对社区土地上广泛的知识和实践的批判性评估和价值化。这一过程之所以能够赋予能力，是因为它认识到需要使知识易懂的许多可能的知识形式的存在，以便它们可以为可持续土地使用的可行替代方案做出贡献。此外，我们的研究方法将社区成员视为知识的共同投资者和托管人，因为他们可视化并创建了自我反射的人工制品以及其日常现实和对土地的依恋的记录。该研究为有关公平获取和控制自然资源（包括可持续土地使用）的问题创造了背景和机会。这项研究将涉及来自苏格兰，坦桑尼亚和南非的九名有意选择的社区土地活动家，以与苏格兰土地改革旅程中产生的知识相互动并提供新的见解。我们认为，苏格兰社区土地斗争与全球南方的协同作用可以通过共同了解公平和可持续的土地利用实践的潜在重要性来建立。可以说，苏格兰争取社区土地权的斗争类似于坦桑尼亚和南非等数十年来为土地权而奋斗的斗争。在许多情况下，这些关于土地权利的竞争是通过对基于权利的土地改革，可持续性，气候变化和环境保护的意识提高的意识来告知的。通过这些知识共同生产过程，我们的项目将旨在实现以下方面：（i）对社区土地权利作为可持续发展的途径的作用进行批判理解，并为渐进财产权的理论观点做出贡献； （ii）支持一个实践社区，致力于可持续土地权利并加强南北研究合作； （iii）为苏格兰，英国以及更广泛的国际背景的可持续和包容性土地政策的政策制定做出贡献，最后（iv）通过精心策划的物理和在线展览提高公众对土地改革和社区土地所有权的认识，以替代私有财产所有权模型。