People and nature: The emerging signature of a relational journal

[摘要] It is now 3 years since People and Nature was launched as the BritishEcological Society's journal of relational thinking. Since that formativeand auspicious moment, the Journal has published over 160 papersexploring critical linkages between, and assemblages of, these highlyinterdependent, if not co-constructed, worlds of ‘people’ and ‘nature’.We wrote in the opening editorial of the motivation and opportunityfor conducting broadly defined interdisciplinary research, and emphatically of the need to sustain and foster creative dialogues between ecology and other disciplines to elaborate understandings of people andnature both critical by design and applied in scope. Given the many anddiverse submissions that have arisen from this invitation, it seems warranted to now ask, what is the emerging signature of our relational journal? Thus, what kinds of topics and themes have come to preoccupy itswork? What models of interdisciplinarity are shaping its approaches toinquiry? And, what kinds of relational thinking are duly emerging? Inoffering some initial answers to these questions, our concern is lessto say what People and Nature is or is not as a Journal—still less to prescribe and narrow the types of articles we now welcome—but rather, tocharacterise our current trajectory while renewing and insisting on ourcommitment to innovations that draw from varied arenas of knowledgeproduction. We have only just started.

[学科分类] 护理学