SENS, IRD, CIRAD, Univ Paul Valery Montpellier 3, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Sciences (SAGEONS), The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Bay Road, Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji.
Ambio. 2022 Dec;51(12):2445-2458. doi: 10.1007/s13280-022-01777-1. Epub 2022 Sep 23.
In the South Pacific region, marine territories and resources play a crucial role for local communities. Children engage with these territories and resources from an early age onwards. As the next ocean stewards, they are a stakeholder group whose understandings of ocean connectivity and fisheries should be given serious consideration in decision-making processes towards the sustainable use and management of coastal seas. This paper analyses 290 children's drawings from Fiji and New Caledonia, created in 2019 in spontaneous response to the instruction: "Draw the sea and what you and others do in the sea". Exploring the webs of connections with and within the sea revealed by these children's drawings and their own interpretations leads us to discuss children's representations of the sea: (1) beyond a land-sea compartmentation, (2) as a locus of both exploitation and conservation of marine life, and (3) as a 'place-full' space connecting human and more-than-human realms.
在南太平洋地区，海洋领土和资源对当地社区起着至关重要的作用。儿童从很小的时候就开始接触这些领土和资源。作为未来的海洋管理者，他们是利益相关群体之一，他们对海洋连通性和渔业的理解应该在关于沿海海域可持续利用和管理的决策过程中得到认真考虑。本文分析了来自斐济和新喀里多尼亚的 290 名儿童的画作，这些画作是 2019 年在即兴创作时根据指令“画大海以及你和其他人在海里做什么”创作的。通过探索这些儿童画作及其自身解释所揭示的与海洋的连接网络，我们讨论了儿童对海洋的表现：(1) 超越了陆海分隔，(2) 既是海洋生物开发和保护的场所，也是(3) 一个连接人类和超人类领域的“充满空间”的场所。
