Chang, Shenglin Elijah, Ze-jyun Yang, Ming-yang Kuo, Ting-hsiun Hsiao (2016). Participatory Agricultural Humanities for The New Ruralism Tea-coummunity Revitalization in Taiwan. Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal, 1(3), 251-256.
This paper examines the most effective ways of engaging urban citizens to appreciate rural villages and agriculture traditions. Pondering on experiences of rural revitalization experiments in Asian societies, this paper proposes the concept of “participatory agricultural humanities.” Participatory agricultural humanities are tools and processes engaging citizens into eco-friendly farming and land related works or events. Based on action research and qualitative research methods, we have been working with peri-urban and rural communities in Taiwan since 2009. Only embracing agricultural humanities as our values, we could re-establish eco-friendly rural developments with biodiversity and cultural diversity as a whole.