Literacy, translation, practices

Literacy, translation, practices

This article presents a case study about groundwater detection in a mountainous area of South Kordofan in Sudan. The inhabitants of these areas regularly experience water scarcity during dry seasons. Several factors have intensified this scarcity recently, among them protracted civil wars (1987‑2002...

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Главный автор: Ille, Enrico
Формат: Article ou chapitre numérique
Язык:Anglais
Опубликовано: Journal des anthropologues 2015
Предметы:
post-war scarcity of resources
access to water
environmental literacy
translation
Sudan
pénurie d’après-guerre
accès à l’eau
traduction
Soudan
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:jda_4963 https://doi.org/10.4000/jda.4963 urn:doi:10.4000/jda.4963 en https://journals.openedition.org/jda/4963 2015-03-23T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/h88t All rights reserved Literacy, translation, practices Journal des anthropologues Association française des anthropologues info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2114-2203 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1156-0428 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jda Ille, Enrico post-war scarcity of resources access to water environmental literacy translation Sudan pénurie d’après-guerre accès à l’eau environmental literacy traduction Soudan This article presents a case study about groundwater detection in a mountainous area of South Kordofan in Sudan. The inhabitants of these areas regularly experience water scarcity during dry seasons. Several factors have intensified this scarcity recently, among them protracted civil wars (1987‑2002, 2011-?) and a steady decrease of rainfall. The study follows an attempt to establish a new source of water in the village of Abol. While the task seems merely to relate governmental hydrogeologists’ technical knowledge to specific environmental sites, their work is actually part of on-going negotiations of appropriate social action.In order to conceptualize the observed processes, the article reflects on the concept of environmental literacy and its ability to point to multiple individual perspectives on physical and social environments. The argument also employs the terms « translation » as an analytical concept to grasp attempts to create compatibility of social action and « practices » as individual social behaviour, which integrates both habitus and situational translation. The article concludes that careful scrutiny of these ways of accessing water allows for the identification of the ambiguities necessarily occurring during translation. In a situation favourable to open‑ended negotiations, this may provide new perspectives on how to address these ambiguities. Cet article présente une étude de cas sur la découverte d’eau souterraine dans une région montagneuse au Sud Kordofan (Soudan). Les habitants de ces zones subissent régulièrement des pénuries d’eau pendant la saison sèche. Plusieurs facteurs, dont les guerres civiles prolongées (1987‑2002, 2011-?) et la diminution des pluies, ont récemment aggravé cette pénurie. L’étude suit une tentative visant à exploiter une nouvelle source d’eau dans le village d’Abol. Si cette tâche ne semble impliquer qu’une connaissance technique des sites par les hydrogéologues officiels, leur travail s’inscrit en réalité dans une négociation constante pour définir de l’action sociale adéquate.Pour conceptualiser les processus observés, l’article part d’une réflexion sur la notion d’environmental literacy et sa capacité de focaliser sur des perspectives individuelles multiples concernant les environnements physiques et sociaux. Le terme de « traduction » est également utilisé comme concept analytique pour saisir les tentatives de créer une compatibilité de l’action sociale et celui de « pratiques » en tant que comportement social individuel qui intègre à la fois l’habitus et la traduction en situation. En conclusion, un examen soucieux de ces modes d’accès à l’eau permet d’identifier les ambiguïtés inévitables dans la traduction. Dans une situation où des négociations s’engagent pour atteindre un objectif donné, cette démarche peut fournir de nouveaux moyens d’interpréter ces ambigüités.
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topic post-war scarcity of resources
access to water
environmental literacy
translation
Sudan
pénurie d’après-guerre
accès à l’eau
environmental literacy
traduction
Soudan
spellingShingle post-war scarcity of resources
access to water
environmental literacy
translation
Sudan
pénurie d’après-guerre
accès à l’eau
environmental literacy
traduction
Soudan
Ille, Enrico
Literacy, translation, practices
description This article presents a case study about groundwater detection in a mountainous area of South Kordofan in Sudan. The inhabitants of these areas regularly experience water scarcity during dry seasons. Several factors have intensified this scarcity recently, among them protracted civil wars (1987‑2002, 2011-?) and a steady decrease of rainfall. The study follows an attempt to establish a new source of water in the village of Abol. While the task seems merely to relate governmental hydrogeologists’ technical knowledge to specific environmental sites, their work is actually part of on-going negotiations of appropriate social action.In order to conceptualize the observed processes, the article reflects on the concept of environmental literacy and its ability to point to multiple individual perspectives on physical and social environments. The argument also employs the terms « translation » as an analytical concept to grasp attempts to create compatibility of social action and « practices » as individual social behaviour, which integrates both habitus and situational translation. The article concludes that careful scrutiny of these ways of accessing water allows for the identification of the ambiguities necessarily occurring during translation. In a situation favourable to open‑ended negotiations, this may provide new perspectives on how to address these ambiguities.
author Ille, Enrico
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title Literacy, translation, practices
title_short Literacy, translation, practices
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