全球化課堂:社會、自我與轉變中的自然

環境問題深遠的影響了臺灣這片土地上的經濟、科技、自然生態以及國族認同。從我們每天吃的食物,用的電力,呼吸的空氣等等,這些議題不只與個人健康、在地民生息息相關,並且與地方政治及全球化緊密扣連。然而。我們對於周遭的環境議題,及其與當下急遽變動中的全球秩序理解多少?我們對環境與自然的想象、介入、關懷、消費或是漠視根植於什麼樣的文化、歷史、政治條件?反映了什麼樣的自我意識與世界觀? 這個世界觀與世界上其他地方生活的人們有什麼不同?探索這些議題構成本次全球化課堂的核心。我們將與臺灣東華大學、美國阿帕拉契大學、加州大學爾灣分校的研究夥伴,以及全球部落環境運動者合作,透過閱讀經典。課堂討論、行走、研究協作,以及創意寫作等模式,與自我、自然及生活於不同區域的人們展開跨學科、跨國界、與跨文化對話,共同探索自我、社會、自然與全球化之間的關係。Environmental issues have profoundly affected the economy, technology development, natural ecology, the personal and the national identity in Taiwan. From the food we eat, the electricity we use, the air we breathe, etc., the human-environment interaction not only impacts personal health and local livelihoods, but also shape/ are shaped by the domestic and global politics in a much broader scale. However, how much do we understand, and what “care” are we offering to the environmental issues and their close connection to the rapidly changing global order? What cultural, historical, and political conditions are embedded in our imagination, intervention, care, consumption, or disregard for the environment and nature? What kind of self-awareness and worldview is reflected? How does this worldview differ from people from other cultures and geographical regions? Exploring these topics forms the core of this Taiwan-US Global Classroom, a co-learning platform which allows us to work closely with research partners at Dong Hwa University in Taiwan, Appalachian University, the University of California, Irvine in the US , as well as tribal environmental activists around the world. Through classic reading, classroom discussions, walking, research collaboration, and creative writing, this class is designed to offer interdisciplinary, cross-border, and cross-cultural dialogues to explore the multifaceted relationship among self, society, nature, and globalization. This course addresses the changing meanings and entangled relationship among self, society and nature in different cultures and historical contexts. We will develop active dialogues with our global partners from the US to explore the multifaceted epistemic, social and political cultures of representing, manufacturing and designing the self and society in responding to the changing global dynamics. The course covers a range of related topics including the perceptions of the self, the collective and the natural worlds through sciences, literature and arts, the changing relationship between human-nature in various cultures, and how our perceptions of the self, community and nature impact environmental policymaking and actions on sustainability. Departing from traditional lecturing, this course is design as an NYCU-UVA Global Classroom which values ACTIVE LEARNING & GLOBAL OUTREACH. Class will be operated using interactive seminar format and requires direct participation in both in-class and out-class activities to stimulate student-instructor and student-student dialogues rather than just listening to a professor and taking note. During the course period, you are expected to actively engage in the dialogues with local communities, as well as global partners from the US, to explore different historical, philosophical, social and political factors that shape our perceptions of nature, community, environmental justice and human-nature relationship across cultures. Three teaching formats will be used to facilitate the course progress: 1.Global seminar and research exchange with the US partners to investigate cross-cultural perceptions of nature, community, human-nature relationship and environmental justice. 2.“Walkshop” at two natural sites (軍艦岩,農禪寺) to experience walking as a way of knowing, reading and engaging with Nature, Community and Self; 3.Creative Writing Workshop with American poet Scott Ezell to explore alternative writing that connect self, society and nature.

本課程是以全球化課堂的方式進行,?重培養學生以下能力: 1.跨領域的主動學習 Interdisciplinary and active learning 2.跨國界與跨文化的思維 Transnational and cross-cultural perspectives 3.批判性的思考全球與地方的關係 Reflection and critical thinking 4.跨文化語境下偏見的自覺與反思。Awareness and Reflexivity 5.跨文化的溝通能力。Cross-cultural communication

30% Class Attendance 60% Term Project (broken into four homework assignments, each is 15% of the total grade) 選擇一個你關心的人與環境互動的議題作?你的學期計劃。你將在收集資料與分析的過程中與你的全球夥伴們交換研究心得。研究計劃的繳交分?4個作業。每個作業你準備一支5~10分鐘的短片回應以下問題。並與你的全球夥伴交換短片與評論。 For every assignment, you will prepare a short video clip and share it with your global partner, who will serve as your peer reviewer to explore the following issues: HW1. 介紹你自己,你與你所挑選研究題目的關係以及研究動機。Introduce yourself, and the research topic of the term project--why do you care? What is the relationship between you and your research subject? HW2:誰是行動者?他們如何描述並界定自然環境自我及社會?他們採取了什麼行動捍衛這些主張與立場?Who are the (human and nonhuman) actors in your project? How do they perceive and define nature, self and society? What procedures and mechanisms they mobilize to defend their position? Who are excluded/invisible? HW3: 這個案例對你有什麼?示?對臺灣以及對全球環境運動有什麼意義?我們從中看到什麼樣的臺灣社會?什麼樣的自我與地方認同?什麼樣的環境倫理觀? HW4 Creative Writing Piece: A hand-writing artefact--A Letter to .... HW5 最後成果以及口頭報告。Integrate HW 1-4 and mobilize everything you learned from the class (theories, cases, walking, global exchanges, creative writing, etc) to create a 15 min film as your final term project. You will deliver an oral presentation in English to introduce your short film on WK 17 and 18. 10% Class leadership: active participation to lead class discussion.

本課程無特定指定閱讀及參考書籍,閱讀教材請參見每周授課說明。 About our global partners: 1.UC-Irvine Prof. Kim Fortune and her disaster STS digital database https://disaster-sts-network.org/content/anthro-25a-environmental-injustice/essay 2.AppState: Profs. Dana Powell (now visiting professor in Dong Hwa University) Rebeca Witter and the Research Institute for Environment, Energy and Economics https://anthro.appstate.edu/directory/dr-dana-e-powell https://sd.appstate.edu/directory/rebecca-witter-phd https://rieee.appstate.edu/ 3.American poet/multi-media independent scholar Scott Ezell http://www.scottezell.org/ 4.Creative Writing https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/apr/07/subconscious-mind-creative-writing-mark-haddon-michelle-paver 5.The concept and practice of “walkshop” adopted by this course 林益仁,走動式的學術交流 https://guavanthropology.tw/article/6764 Tim Ingold on embodied skills of perception. https://vimeo.com/166834185 人類學家 Tim Ingold:重新理解人與自然的關係/陳怡君 https://blog.geogsoc.org.tw/rethinking-human-and-nature-tim-ingold-introduction/