{"id":8287,"date":"2022-09-06T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/?p=8287"},"modified":"2025-07-04T13:51:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:51:56","slug":"sources-materials-fieldwork-in-african-studies-n4-knowing-nature-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/uncategorized\/sources-materials-fieldwork-in-african-studies-n4-knowing-nature-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources. Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies, N\u00b04 “Knowing Nature” (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sources. Mat\u00e9riaux<\/em>\u00a0&\u00a0terrains en \u00e9tudes africaines, “<\/em>Savoirs environnementaux”<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Dossier th\u00e9matique, “Savoirs environnementaux<\/strong>“<\/a>, sous la direction de Luisa Arango<\/strong> (CEDEJ-Khartoum ; UMR-SAGE, Universit\u00e9 de Strasbourg), \u00c9milie Guitard<\/strong> (UMR-PRODIG, CNRS) et \u00c9milie Lavie<\/strong> (UMR-PRODIG, Universit\u00e9 Paris Cit\u00e9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En Afrique, les savoirs sur l\u2019environnement et la nature ont pris une importance cruciale dans un contexte d\u2019aggravation des crises \u00e9cologiques. Ils soul\u00e8vent des questions majeures portant sur leur production et leur diffusion. Qu\u2019est ce qui est consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme relevant du savoir ou de l\u2019ignorance sur l\u2019environnement ? Comment, par qui et pour qui ces savoirs sont-ils produits ? \u00c0 quoi servent-ils ? De quelle fa\u00e7on et par quels moyens circulent-ils ? Qui est consid\u00e9r\u00e9\u00b7e savant\u00b7e ? Et comment se construisent et se contestent les hi\u00e9rarchies \u00e9pist\u00e9mologiques sur la nature ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les articles et les entretiens de ce num\u00e9ro sp\u00e9cial abordent ces questions depuis Madagascar, le Mozambique, l\u2019\u00c9thiopie, le Kenya, le Soudan, la Guin\u00e9e, la Sierra Leone, le Nig\u00e9ria et le Cameroun. Ils questionnent les savoirs environnementaux de mani\u00e8re originale en partant des supports et des mat\u00e9riaux dans lesquels ces savoirs s\u2019incarnent : carottes de sol, comptes rendus de r\u00e9unions d\u2019associations environnementalistes, textes l\u00e9gislatifs, protocoles internationaux, prospectus touristiques ou brochures de communication pour des campagnes sanitaires. Une fois collect\u00e9s, classifi\u00e9s et remis en contexte, ces objets sont \u00e0 la fois des lieux de savoir et des sources d\u2019analyse au fondement des recherches en sciences sociales sur l\u2019environnement en Afrique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Special issue, “Knowing Nature<\/strong>“<\/a>, edited by Luisa\u00a0Arango<\/span><\/strong> (CEDEJ-Khartoum ; UMR-SAGE, University of Strasbourg), \u00c9milie\u00a0Guitard<\/span><\/strong> (UMR-PRODIG, CNRS) <\/span>and \u00c9milie\u00a0Lavie<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(UMR-PRODIG, University Paris Cit\u00e9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowing nature and the environment has become crucial in Africa in a context of increasing ecological crises. Major questions about the production and dissemination of such knowledge arise: What is considered to be knowledge or to be ignorance about the environment? How, by whom and for whom is knowledge produced? What is it used for? How and by what means is it disseminated? Who is considered knowledgeable? And how are epistemological hierarchies about nature built and contested?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This special issue addresses these questions in relation to Madagascar, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Cameroon. The articles and two interviews explore environmental knowledge in an original way by focusing on the media and materials in which this knowledge is embodied: soil cores, minutes of meetings of environmental associations, legal acts, international protocols, tourist leaflets, and communication brochures for health campaigns, among others. Once collected, classified and put back into context, these objects are both places of knowledge and sources of analysis situated at the core of social science research on the environment in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sources. Mat\u00e9riaux\u00a0&\u00a0terrains en \u00e9tudes africaines, “Savoirs environnementaux” \u00a0 [English version below] Dossier th\u00e9matique, “Savoirs environnementaux“, sous la direction de Luisa Arango (CEDEJ-Khartoum ; UMR-SAGE, Universit\u00e9 de Strasbourg), \u00c9milie Guitard (UMR-PRODIG, CNRS) et \u00c9milie Lavie (UMR-PRODIG, Universit\u00e9 Paris Cit\u00e9). En Afrique, les savoirs sur l\u2019environnement et la nature ont pris une importance cruciale dans un contexte […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,16,36,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-publications","category-sources-materials-fieldwork-in-african-studies","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8291,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions\/8291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}