Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Schottengasse 10, 1010, Vienna, Austria.
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Universitaetsstrasse 7, 1010, Vienna, Austria.
Ambio. 2023 Jul;52(7):1211-1220. doi: 10.1007/s13280-023-01874-9. Epub 2023 May 24.
The Indigenous village of Bykovskiy is located 40 km from Tiksi, the administrative center of Bulunskiy District (Ulus), in the northern part of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia. Founded as a Soviet fishing cooperative, it became home to Indigenous Sakha, Evenkis, Evens, as well as to Russian settlers and political prisoners from the Baltic states. Post-Soviet transformations, coupled with escalating environmental change processes, has been altering the local economy and subsistence activities since the 1990s. Although our interlocutors directly observed and experienced such changes, they seemed to ignore the visible problem of severe coastal erosion that was destroying a local cemetery. This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the study region in 2019, and combines approaches from the anthropology of climate change with reception and communication studies. It examines "ignorance" as a strategy of adaptation to multiple stressors under historically reproduced colonial structures of governance.
比科夫斯基村位于俄罗斯萨哈共和国（雅库特）北部的布鲁恩斯基区（乌卢斯）行政中心提克西 40 公里处。该村始建于苏联时期的渔业合作社，是萨哈原住民、埃文基人、埃文斯人、俄罗斯移民以及来自波罗的海国家的政治犯的家园。20 世纪 90 年代以来，后苏联时代的变革以及日益加剧的环境变化进程一直在改变当地的经济和生计活动。尽管我们的受访者直接观察和经历了这些变化，但他们似乎忽视了严重的海岸侵蚀问题，而这种侵蚀正在破坏当地的一个墓地。本文基于 2019 年在研究区域进行的民族志实地考察，结合了气候变化人类学与接受和传播研究的方法，探讨了在历史上再现的殖民治理结构下，将“忽视”作为一种适应多种压力源的策略。
