CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Fabók, Veronika |
|---|---|
| Title | The politics of local ecological knowledge in Kiskunsag, rural Hungary |
| Summary | Local ecological knowledge is a concept that is mainly used by environmental scientists, but it is relevant to anthropologists as well because it poses interesting questions about the relationship between scientific and non-scientific knowledge and the political-economic processes that are producing the knowledge. It also draws attention to the relationship between locality and global processes. Globalization challenged anthropological research with its tendencies to destabilize the places, social relations became disembedded from the locality. Despite these tendencies, I stand by the statement, that places still matter, globalization is grounded in the local. In my thesis, I use global ethnography to understand place-making projects in a rural agricultural area in Hungary. I'm analyzing the global forces and social imaginations that are producing the place in interaction with ecological processes. I propose a conceptualization of local ecological knowledge that is based on these place-making projects. I argue that this conceptualization makes it possible to better understand the farmers’ material and cultural realities and contribute to addressing environmental justice issues that are affecting people in a more significant way. |
| Supervisor | Fabiani, Jean-Louis |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/fabok_veronika.pdf |
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