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== General questions to ask oneself about practices in academia ==

* 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 <u>should</u> take these decisions?

== On the impact of linguistics on the environment and society ==
Do we want to reduce negative impacts, or to increase positive impacts?

=== Reduce negative impacts ===

* [[Working proposal on sustainable linguistics]]

*[[Human ethics proposal]]
*[[Conferencing#Reasons%20why%20conferences%20nowadays%20are%20often%20not%20sustainable|Reasons why conferences nowadays are often not sustainable]]
*[[Sustainability in linguistics]]
=== Increase positive impacts ===
Probably the most important way to increase the positive impacts of linguistic work - and academic work in general - is to use [[Sustainability in linguistics#Interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and linguistics|interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary methods]]. Another very important point is the [[representativity]] of people and opinions.

See also the [[Curated theme: Making academic practices in linguistics more sustainable: collaborating within and beyond disciplines.|Curated theme: Making academic practices in linguistics more sustainable: collaborating within and beyond disciplines]] 

See also the [[Curated Theme: Making academic practices in linguistics more sustainable: practical examples of sustainable practices in linguistics]]

==== Other ====
* impact on prestige of minority languages and attitudes towards them

<code>Four arguments for language maintenance</code>

* <code>social justice, political reasons to stop speaking a language.</code>
* <code>epistemic sustainability: "A dying language is a burning library of knowledge"</code>
* <code>indigenous wellbeing / wellbeing of minorities (not only language minorities but minorities in general)</code>
** <code>spiritual, land-based, cultural identity, emotional health, physical health, educational, economic, restorative<ref>Angelo et al. 2019: 12. Dimensions of the WILE framework. // Angelo, D., C. O’Shannessy, J. Simpson, I. Kral, H. Smith, and E. Browne (2019). Well-being and indigenous language ecologies (wile): a strengths-based approach: Literature review, national indigenous languages report, pillar 2</ref></code>
* <code>linguistic diversity</code>

=== Impact on society ===
* Fieldwork ethics
* Find the relevance of linguistics for people // What does society gain from our linguistic research?
* 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

=== Impact on environment: ===
* [[conferencing]] 
* [[publishing]]
* [[archiving and data access]]
* [[research tools]]

<code>Sustainable academia (quotes from Wk4 slide 27)</code>

* <code>Sustainable academic practices: Having a shared set of values around ‘how to do things’ that promote inclusivity, understanding and maximising long-term continuation without causing harm.</code>
* <code>Sustainable academic infrastructures: Having institutional and long-term support to maintain sustainable practices.</code>

[[Sustainability in linguistics]]