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
- 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
Do we want to reduce negative impacts, or to increase positive impacts?
Reduce negative impacts
- Human ethics proposal
- 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 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
Other
- impact on prestige of minority languages and attitudes towards them
Four arguments for language maintenance
social justice, political reasons to stop speaking a language.epistemic sustainability: "A dying language is a burning library of knowledge"indigenous wellbeing / wellbeing of minorities (not only language minorities but minorities in general)spiritual, land-based, cultural identity, emotional health, physical health, educational, economic, restorative[1]
linguistic diversity
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:
Sustainable academia (quotes from Wk4 slide 27)
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.Sustainable academic infrastructures: Having institutional and long-term support to maintain sustainable practices.
- ↑ 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
