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Taking Post SDGs seriously: report from Earthbound practice in Japan's satoyama and beyond - Prof Yukio Maeda,Soka University Japan
Monday 10th March 2025, 12-1pm, University of Warwick
Professor Yukio MaedaLink opens in a new window, Soka University Japan
The International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) was established in 2010 in order to explore ways and means for using and managing natural resources sustainably that benefit current and future generations as diverse stakeholders. The word satoyama originally comes from a Japanese word. It means a middle place between sato (where people live) and yama (mountain). It also has represented in-betweenness as places where humans take care of nature in nature, including themselves, through four seasons. However, as urbanization has caused environmental degradation and loss of cultures and traditions, everyone has forgot a certain manner in which humans interact with nature. Through fieldwork in a satoyama, we can remember how to interact with the soil, water and microorganisms. Here, by introducing the content of fieldwork, I would like to show how humans can become "Earthbound" (Latour 2015) by taking a practical course at university.
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