Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.
Br J Sociol. 2022 Mar;73(2):352-369. doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12931. Epub 2022 Feb 26.
In his research with Indigenous Evenki people living in Arctic Siberia, Anderson introduces the concept of "sentient ecology", defined as "the mutual interrelation of person and place". This interdisciplinary article starts from the basic premise that sentient ecology is relevant for research on resilience, and it aims to demonstrate this in two key ways. First, it uses sentient ecology as a novel framework for thinking about resilience, with a particular focus on conflict-related sexual violence (CSRV)-an area of scholarship that to date has given very little attention to the concept of resilience. The article locates resilience in the fluid and dynamic interactions between individuals and their social ecologies. What sentient ecology contributes in this regard is a different way of thinking about these interactions. In particular, it highlights some of the ways that female and male victims-/survivors of CRSV actively utilize and engage with the more-than-human living world around them in the process of rebuilding and moving on with their lives. Second, the article uses sentient ecology as a framework for thinking in new "sentient" ways about social-ecological systems (SES)-and how the social and ecological parts of these systems communicate with each other. Taking this a step further, it argues that sentient ecology offers a potential basis for developing more posthumanist accounts of resilience as an extension of SES.
在对生活在北极西伯利亚的因纽特埃文基人的研究中，安德森引入了“有感知力的生态学”这一概念，将其定义为“人与地方的相互关系”。这篇跨学科文章从有感知力的生态学与韧性研究相关这一基本前提出发，旨在通过两种关键方式证明这一点。首先，它将有感知力的生态学作为一种思考韧性的新框架，特别关注与冲突相关的性暴力（CSRV）——这一学术领域迄今为止对韧性概念关注甚少。文章将韧性定位在个人与其社会生态之间的流动和动态互动中。有感知力的生态学在这方面的贡献是，提供了一种思考这些互动的不同方式。特别是，它强调了女性和男性 CSRV 受害者/幸存者在重建和继续生活的过程中，如何积极利用和参与周围的超人类生活世界的一些方式。其次，该文章将有感知力的生态学作为一种新的“有感知力”的思考社会生态系统（SES）的框架，以及这些系统的社会和生态部分如何相互沟通。更进一步，它认为有感知力的生态学为发展更具后人类主义观点的韧性提供了潜在基础，作为 SES 的延伸。
