Curated Theme: Making academic practices in linguistics more sustainable: reducing negative impact on the environment and society
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General questions to ask oneself about practices in academia[edit | edit source]
- What academic practices could/should have a reduction of impact?
- What matters to people? What matters to linguists? What are the interests of all parties? (How) is it possible to combine all of these?
- Who has expertise? on what? How can we combine the expertise of different people to have a positive impact together?
- Who decides on the topics that are researched on? Who should take these decisions?
On the impact of linguistics on the environment and society[edit | edit source]
Do we want to reduce negative impacts, or to increase positive impacts?
Reduce negative impacts[edit | edit source]
- Human ethics proposal
- Reasons why conferences nowadays are often not sustainable
- Sustainability in linguistics
Increase positive impacts[edit | edit source]
Probably the most important way to increase the positive impacts of linguistic work - and academic work in general - is to use interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary methods. Another very important point is the representativity and inclusivity of people and opinions.
See also the Curated theme: Making academic practices in linguistics more sustainable: collaborating within and beyond disciplines
Impact on society[edit | edit source]
- Fieldwork ethics
- Find the relevance of linguistics for people // What does society gain from our linguistic research?
- Language Revitalization can also have a positive impact on the prestige of minority languages and attitudes towards them.
- others relevant issues relate to:
- the choice of research topics,
- the points of view that we include in the research and publications,
- the funding opportunities
- power & hierarchies
- pressure to publish
