Curated Theme: Making academic practices in linguistics more sustainable: reducing negative impact on the environment and society: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 00:25, 24 January 2023

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?

Do we want to reduce negative impacts, or to increase positive impacts?

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.

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

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