Island political ecology: ecologically unequal exchange

講者：Eric Clark, 瑞典隆德大學（Lund University）社會及經濟地理學系教授
時間：2010年12月9日下午 3:00─5：00
地點：原住民學院 A313
主辦單位：東華大學臺灣文化學系、民族發展與社會工作學系
主持人：紀駿傑教授

講者與演講內容介紹：
瑞典隆德大學(Lund University)社會及經濟地理學系教授艾里克(Eric Clark)於2010年9月1日至2010年1月20日至台大地理資訊系擔任客座教授。E. Clark教授專長於島嶼人文地理學、都市地理學及社會經濟地理學等；目前亦為著名地理學期刊《Geografiska Annaler B》（Blackwell 出版，列名SSCI）的資深主編；人文地理學辭典(Dictionary of Human Geography, 6th Edition)編撰委員；島嶼研究期刊《Journal of Island Studies》及北歐《Nordisk Samhällsgeografisk Tidskrift》等期刊編輯委員。近年研究主題包括：移民與縉紳化、島嶼人文地理學及新都市自由主義(neoliberal urbanism)。
本次演講主要為介紹及討論Dr. Clark長期進行的島嶼人文地理學研究，尤其是從「生態不平等交換」的觀點進行分析。Dr.Clark除了有許多國際島嶼研究之經驗外，也長期關注台灣島嶼研究（金門、澎湖、蘭嶼），尤其也曾出版金門島嶼之相關研究成果。

演講摘要：
Islands around the world have played important roles in the weave of existence, in the constitution of global power relations and in the operational nuts and bolts of world systems. In the long view, islands have been key scenes in the slow generation of global biocultural diversity. More recently, as hubs of slave trade, laboratories of colonial enterprises, way stations for provisioning, sources of resource extraction, military outposts, effective spaces for incarceration, convenient sites for dumping waste, and more, islands have become arenas of strategic struggles over land and natural resources and sites of biocultural extinctions. This lecture provides a brief analysis of islands in global historical-political ecology focusing on ecologically unequal exchange. Ecologically unequal exchange refers to material flows of trade, especially in terms of embodied labor and embodied land (net flows from periphery to core) and environmental degradation (net flows from core to periphery). It entails moving the ecological burden of politically and economically strong regions to politically and economically weak regions. Ecologically unequal exchange suggests that the environmental conditions of a place do not necessarily reflect the environmental burdens generated by its material consumption and standard of living. Empirical examples draw largely, though not exclusively, on research into the historical-political ecology of Taiwanese islands: Kinmen Island, the Penghu Archipelago, and Pongso no Tau.


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