More Meanings In The Flow Of Life: Sustainability Metaphors

Brownlee, Edme Corina

More Meanings In The Flow Of Life: Sustainability Metaphors

dc.contributor.advisor	Keough, Noel
dc.contributor.author	Brownlee, Edme Corina
dc.contributor.committeemember	Gerlach, S. Craig
dc.contributor.committeemember	Sinclair, Brian R.
dc.contributor.committeemember	Apentiik, Caesar Roland
dc.contributor.committeemember	Huambachano, Mariaelena A.
dc.date	2021-02
dc.date.accessioned	2020-10-26T17:43:26Z
dc.date.available	2020-10-26T17:43:26Z
dc.date.issued	2020-10-21
dc.description.abstract	To face the need for improved communication towards sustaining life on planet Earth, a search to identify Andean sustainability metaphors was designed. A constructionist epistemological inquiry including interpretivism, Andean worldview, and phenomenology was proposed. It allowed methodologies and methods of ethnographic, phenomenological and cognitive fields, to effectively interact. Purposes included identifying sustainability expressions in representative utterances and textile images, their underlying sustainability-related metaphors and metonymies, and their image-schemata. Eventually, based on the above and on the collaborating community’s physical, social and cultural context, the research yielded the identification of sustainability metaphors. Ten months of experiential learning through interaction were supported by a traditional Andean community at 4000 m of altitude in Peru. Participant observation, interaction in Chanka Qichwa and Spanish, interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), face-to-face interviews, community-based collaboration, and metaphor analysis allowed identification of nine sustainability metaphors from the Andes. Meaning, interpretation, applicability, influence, and source domain features of the identified metaphors were determined. Outcomes of the study include: an interdisciplinary method to identify sustainability-related metaphors underlying their instances in oral and visual expressions, “sustainability of life” conceptual metaphors applicable to any context, application of IPA to the ethnographic field, validation of image-schemata as indicators of the nature and the effects of sustainability metaphors, and the realization that traditional agricultural communities are interested in sharing empirical knowledge to sustain life on Earth, and that, for them, sustainability involves sustaining or nurturing life. Future research on sustainability metaphors should include grassroots representatives, academic and other kinds of knowledge.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Brownlee, E. C. (2020). More Meanings In The Flow Of Life: Sustainability Metaphors (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38350
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/112711
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Environmental Design	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.	en_US
dc.subject	Sustainability of Life; Phenomenology; Conceptual metaphors; Andean worldview, Andean metaphors of sustainability; oral metaphors; visual metaphors.	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Education--Philosophy of	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Anthropology	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Engineering--Environmental	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Psychology--Cognitive	en_US
dc.title	More Meanings In The Flow Of Life: Sustainability Metaphors	en_US
dc.type	doctoral thesis	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Environmental Design	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)	en_US
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