• 영어영문학
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.597-618
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• 2009

Leslie Marmon Silko, in her novel Gardens in the Dunes, primarily focuses on revealing the white colonialists' plan to exterminate and destroy American Indians and their culture. In this regard, this novel is clearly an Indian counter narrative to interrogate and abrogate the authority of the oppressive and destructive discourse of the whites who are full of colonialist impulses to sterilize Indians and their culture. However, it should be noted that Silko is very careful not to insist on cultural exclusivism and reverse ethnocentrism, since these only mean a return to the violent colonialists' discourse based on dualism and cultural authenticity which, she believes, has led to the marginalization and eventual deterioration of Indians and their culture. White values and culture are something to recognize and tolerate as long as they are not the products of witchery, also known as the destroyer or evil for Silko, which promotes disruption and antagonism between races and classes. As she reveals in her interview, her major concern in the novel is to dismantle political and/or racial distinctions like Native Americans versus EuroAmericans and thus to enhance the idea of the reconciliation and coexistence of whites and Indians. Silko's Gardens in the Dunes can be regarded as an experiment in the possibility of the universal and homogeneous (at least in its roots) global culture which tolerates all forms of culture. Global culture does not mean a uniform totalitarian culture but a vision of a harmonious world characterized by hybridity and heterogeneity, in which different cultures associate freely without the notion of inferiority or superiority of any one culture. Silko's belief in syncretism emphasizes the spirit of tolerance and exchange between different cultures, dismantling the authority of exclusive ethnocentrism. The ultimate message implied in Gardens in the Dunes is that the syncretic spirit is not only an effective means to correct the white colonialists' hegemonic desire aimed at the extermination of Indians and their culture but also a source of energy for the life and prosperity of modern Indians and their societies.

• 한국기후변화학회지
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.191-201
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• 2011

본 연구는 전 지구적 문제인 기후변화에 대응하기 위해 하천, 산림 등의 자연 지역과 공원, 녹지 등의 오픈스페이스 등을 녹색기반시설이라는 개념으로 통합하고, 이를 완화와 적응의 관점에서 녹색기반시설이 기후변화에 어떻게 효과적으로 대응할 수 있는지에 대한 연구를 실시하였다. 연구의 결과, 산림, 공원, 녹지, 텃밭, 옥상농장, 자전거로, 보행로 등의 녹색기반시설은 1) 탄소의 저감과 격리, 2) 화석연료 대체, 3) 원자재 대체, 4) 식량 생산, 5) 차량 이동의 감소 등을 통해서 기후변화를 완화시킬 수 있다. 둘째, 하천, 가로수, 저류지, 습지, 사구, 바람길 등의 녹색기반시설은 1) 폭염완화, 2) 물 공급 조절, 3) 강 범람 조절, 4) 해안 범람 조절, 5) 지표수 조절, 6) 토양 침식 감소, 7) 생물종 적응에 도움 등을 통해서 기후변화 적응의 역할을 할 수 있다.