Social-ecological memory in an autobiographical novel: ecoliteracy, place attachment, and identity related to the Korean traditional village landscape

Kim, GoWoon; Vaswani, Rahul Teku; Lee, Dowon

doi:10.5751/es-09284-220227

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“…This implies that the Korean TEK reflected in the resource-related proverbs shows the comprehensive characteristics of TEK, in that it is a complex of knowledge, practices, and beliefs [14]. In this regard, studies on ecoliteracy also state that the ultimate purpose of ecoliteracy is to influence persons to have integrated abilities of head, heart, hands, and spirit within their social-ecological environments [5,36]. Our study shows that traditional proverbs may be used as a means to deliver and develop such integrated aspects of ecoliteracy.…”

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“…This kind of proverb not only expresses ecological connectivity, but also provides culturally embedded ecological wisdom on desirable village landscape configuration. In addition, effective rainwater harvesting was important for social-ecological resilience, given the dry Korean spring season when seeding and transplanting are done, and the sometimes excessive monsoon rainfall [26,36,38].…”

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Enhancing Ecoliteracy through Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Proverbs

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Proverbs can be regarded as pithy axioms of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), which can be useful for sustainability education. By using an exploratory sequential mixed method, we analyzed TEK and ecoliteracy components embedded in rain-and tree-related Korean traditional proverbs, and further conducted a survey of university students to gauge their knowledge of the proverbs and draw correlations with their ecoliteracy. We classified 173 rain-and 117 tree-related traditional Korean proverbs and found that most of these were related to factual observations, such as ecological characteristics of tree species and the prediction of rainfall, which indicated people's understanding of ecological processes and patterns. We also found that students tended to provide correct answers for questions related to TEK-based worldviews, ethics and values, which are important components of ecoliteracy, thereby indicating the usefulness of proverbs in delivering TEK-based worldviews, ethics, and values. Overall, our study reasons that the learning of TEK-related traditional proverbs can be meaningful for enhancing ecoliteracy among urban youth, particularly when this learning is complemented with field-based observational learning within integrated approaches for sustainability education.

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“…We consider social-ecological legacies as resources that contain social and ecological elements that co-evolved in time and space, resulting in integrated entities. These can be places like alpine pastures (Quétier et al 2010;Egarter Vigl et al 2016), cultural landscapes (Tengberg et al 2012Plieninger et al 2015) or resources for management, such as local livestock breeds (Vilá and Arzamendia 2020 Oct 26) or agricultural knowledge (Berkes et al 2000;Kim et al 2017). Legacy effects of past society-ecosystem interactions such as modified ecosystems, altered ecosystem functions or social path dependencies have shaped and will continue to shape the type and modes of NCP co-production (Renard et al 2015;Wu et al 2020;Bruley et al 2021b).…”

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Memory over matter?—a conceptual framework to integrate social–ecological l legacies in agricultural NCP co-production

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To better account for how social–ecological legacies of social and ecological systems jointly shape the current composition, the quality and quantity of nature’s contribution to people (NCPs), we integrate the concept of NCP co-production into social–ecological system thinking. Our expanded framework highlights how NCP co-production is frequently entangled within its social–ecological context, such as legacies, current resources and social activities. Additionally, we underline the relevance of non-material and material dimensions of resources in NCP co-production. To illustrate the potential of this expanded framework, we explore its application to an agricultural system of the French Northern Alps. We conclude that this framework (1) facilitates the understanding of society–ecosystem interactions in a specific regional social–ecological context; (2) helps to better conceptualise the interdependencies between resources and social activities; (3) demonstrates how current rule sets to organise social–ecological legacies affect the entire NCP co-production chain. The framework’s further implementation requires more research to better understand the complex interlinkages between the social and the ecological subsystems that underpin socioeconomic activities.

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“…There are two previous studies that have raised issues about the environment in literary works by involving concepts such as ecological cannibalism, elegiac protomourning, and ecosystem-like to provide illustrations of how nature has an important role in human life, namely the research by Huebert (2017) and the research by Kim et al (2017). The main argument of these two studies is how literary works about the environment can be a medium that contributes in providing narratives about social change and the interaction between humans and nature.…”

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“…Huebert (2017) questions the moral dichotomy between "good people" and "bad people" presented in the novel The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy, and shows how the novel presents what is called elegiac protomourning, namely a concept that tends to recognize the existence of real losses due to natural damage compared to voicing the preservation of damaged nature. Meanwhile, in his research, Kim et al (2017) describes how the autobiographical novel Who Ate Up All the Shinga? by Park Wan-suh's manifests ecoliteracy, place attachment, and identity in relation to the traditional Korean village landscape.…”

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The Voice of Human Ecology in the Novel The Bear (2020) by Andrew Krivak

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2021

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As a movement that has held an important position in the humanities for the past few decades, eco-criticism or environmental-oriented literature needs to promote a better understanding of nature more broadly. That is, ecocriticism must distinguish itself from writings on the environment in general, namely by presenting a narrative showing that humans need to have a sense of attachment to nature, as well as by presenting a narrative showing that the world of humans and the world of non-humans needs to be positioned equally. In the novel The Bear (2020) by Andrew Krivak, the voice of equality between humans and nature is the dominant issue. Using the human ecology concept from Philip J. Stewart as a key concept, this study aims to describe how human fragility and natural domination presented in the novel The Bear (2020) support the idea of human ecology, as well as how human ecologyvoiced in the novel The Bear (2020) criticizes the view of anthropocentrism which believes that humans are the center of life. This study shows that the voice of human ecology in the novel The Bear (2020) which is presented through human fragility, natural domination, to criticism of the anthropocentrism view offers the idea of a balance between humans and nature. The balance in question is a condition in which humans and nature return to an equal position, where neither one of them is harmed.

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Social-ecological memory in an autobiographical novel: ecoliteracy, place attachment, and identity related to the Korean traditional village landscape

Cited by 14 publications

References 49 publications

Enhancing Ecoliteracy through Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Proverbs

Enhancing Ecoliteracy through Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Proverbs

Memory over matter?—a conceptual framework to integrate social–ecological l legacies in agricultural NCP co-production

The Voice of Human Ecology in the Novel The Bear (2020) by Andrew Krivak

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