Uniting citizen science and natural history in China

Siyu Fu

doi:10.22323/1.418.0078

Uniting citizen science and natural history in China

Siyu Fu^*

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Department of Mathematics - Science Studies

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Citizen science (CS) is an emerging field in 21^st century China. Chinese CS mainly focuses on environmental and species monitoring. According to Danielle Brombal, Asian studies scholar, Chinese CS is highly instrumental and data-focused, i.e., used primarily to promote scientific research, but places little value on citizen scientists' social and emotional context. Brombal suggests a transformative change for Chinese CS, which aims for a radical change of individual cognitive and emotional attitudes, as well as collective norms. The end goal is the transition to sustainability or ecological civilisation for the entire of China. This paper discusses the potential of facilitating such transformative changes through the Natural History Revival Movement, an environmental movement in contemporary China, which proves to be consistent with Brombal's proposed transformation of Chinese CS as regards goals and approaches.

Original language	English
Article number	078
Journal	Proceedings of Science
Volume	418
Number of pages	6
ISSN	1824-8039
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22323/1.418.0078
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022
Event	2022 Engaging Citizen Science Conference, CitSci 2022 - Aarhus, Denmark Duration: 25 Apr 2022 → 26 Apr 2022

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Conference	2022 Engaging Citizen Science Conference, CitSci 2022
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Aarhus
Period	25/04/2022 → 26/04/2022

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