Enriching indigenous knowledge scholarship via collaborative methodologies: beyond the high tide's few hours

Runk, Julie Velásquez

doi:10.5751/es-06773-190437

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“…What is driving this change toward more engagement and collaboration is different for each country, but many agencies and researchers are recognizing the importance and value of local and diverse perspectives and knowledge in both research and decision making (Houde 2007, Adams et al 2014, Carothers et al 2014, McGregor 2014, Velasquez Runk 2014 and the judicial and ethical frameworks that give effect to collaboration (Ruru 2009a, d, Nikolakis andGrafton 2014). Harmsworth et al 2015.…”

Section: Current Freshwater Legislationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous Māori values and perspectives to inform freshwater management in Aotearoa-New Zealand

Harmsworth¹,

Awatere²,

Robb³

2016

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ABSTRACT. In response to widespread water quality and quantity issues, the New Zealand Government has recently embarked on a number of comprehensive freshwater management reforms, developing a raft of national discussion and policy documents such as "Freshwater Reform 2013 and Beyond" and a National Policy Statement for freshwater management (NPS-FM 2014). Recent resource management reforms and amendments (RMA 2014), based on previous overarching resource management legislation (RMA 1991), set out a new approach and pathway to manage freshwater nationwide. Internationally, there is an increasing trend to engage with indigenous communities for research and collaboration, including indigenous groups as active participants in resource management decision making. What is driving this change toward more engagement and collaboration with indigenous communities is different for each country, and we document the progress and innovation made in this area in New Zealand. The indigenous rights of Māori in New Zealand are stated in the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi and in many forms of New Zealand's legislation. Local and central governments are eager to include local indigenous Māori groups (iwi/hapū) in freshwater management planning processes through meaningful engagement and collaboration. Key to the success of collaborative planning processes for Māori are enduring relationships between local government and Māori, along with adequate resourcing for all partners contributing to the collaborative process. A large number of shared governance and management models for natural resource management have emerged in New Zealand over the past 20 years, and some recent examples are reviewed. We provide some discussion to improve understanding and use of the terms used in these management models such as cogovernance, comanagement, and coplanning, and describe some of the more important frameworks and tools being developed with Māori groups (e.g., iwi/hapū), to strengthen Māori capacity in freshwater management and to support good collaborative process and planning.

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Section: Current Freshwater Legislationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous Māori values and perspectives to inform freshwater management in Aotearoa-New Zealand

Harmsworth¹,

Awatere²,

Robb³

2016

E&S

147

110

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“…The effects of such tensions point to the importance of understanding histories and inequities between communities and outsiders. They also highlight the need for programs such as REDD+ and activities like PMRV to interrogate models of participation that can otherwise ignore such histories, reify existing power structures, and contribute to conflict between communities and conservation actors [ 70 – 72 ]. The cases above show how legitimacy arises from more than formal legal agreements.…”

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Considering land tenure in REDD+ participatory measurement, reporting, and verification: A case study from Indonesia

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Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) systems are thought to be essential for effective carbon accounting and joint REDD+ carbon, conservation, and social development goals. Community participation in MRV (PMRV) has been shown to be both cost effective and accurate, as well as a method to potentially advance stakeholder empowerment and perceptions of legitimacy. Recognizing land tenure as a long-standing point of tension in REDD+ planning, we argue that its engagement also has a key role to play in developing a legitimate PMRV. Using household surveys, key informant interviews, and participatory mapping exercises, we present three ‘lived’ land tenure contexts in Indonesia to highlight their socially and ecologically situated natures and to consider the role of tenure pluralism in shaping PMRV. We then raise and interrogate three questions for incorporating lived land tenure contexts into a legitimate PMRV system: 1) Who holds the right to conduct PMRV activities?; 2) How are the impacts of PMRV differentially distributed within local communities?; and 3) What is the relationship between tenure security and motivation to participate in PMRV? We conclude with implementation lessons for REDD+ practitioners, including the benefits of collaborative practices, and point to critical areas for further research.

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“…Research designs in environmental social science have shifted over the past several decades to include an increased commitment to multi-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary team-based work that prioritizes knowledge integration (Ens et al 2015;Housty et al 2014;Jamsranjav et al 2019;Petrov et al 2016;Velasquez Runk 2014). These changes have led to an attentiveness to power and equity in the substantive aspects of research programs directed toward complex more-than-human political ecologies, and the adoption of more engaged forms of practice, including decolonial approaches (Cote and Nightingale 2012;Schulz 2017;Svarstad, Benjaminsen and Overå 2018).…”

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Political ecology and decolonial research: co-production with the Iñupiat in Utqiaġvik

Zanotti

Carothers

Apok

et al. 2020

Journal of Political Ecology

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Environmental social science research designs have shifted over the past several decades to include an increased commitment to multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary team-based work that have had dual but complementary foci. These address power and equity in the substantive aspects of research, and also to adopt more engaged forms of practice, including decolonial approaches. The fields of political ecology, human geography, and environmental anthropology have been especially open to converge with indigenous scholarship, particularly decolonial and settler colonial theories and research designs, within dominant human-environmental social science paradigms. Scholars at the forefront of this dialogue highlight the ontological (ways of knowing), epistemological (how we know), and institutional (institutions of higher education) transformations that need to occur in order for this to take place. In this article we contribute to this literature in two ways. First, we highlight the synergies between political ecology and decolonial scholarship, particularly focusing on the power dynamics in research programs and historical legacies of human-environmental relationships, including those of researchers. Second, we explore how decolonial research pushes political ecologists and other environmental social scientists to not only consider adopting international and local standards of working with, by and for Indigenous Peoples within research programs but how this work ultimately extends to research and education within their home institutions and organizations. Through integrating decolonized research practices in the environmental social sciences, we argue that synthesizing multiple knowledge practices and transforming institutional structures will enhance team-based environmental social science work to improve collaboration with Indigenous scientists, subsistence practitioners, agency representatives, and sovereign members of Indigenous communities.Keywords: Alaska; collaboration; co-production; decolonial; Indigenous Knowledges; Iñupiaq Peoples

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Enriching indigenous knowledge scholarship via collaborative methodologies: beyond the high tide's few hours

Cited by 16 publications

References 17 publications

Indigenous Māori values and perspectives to inform freshwater management in Aotearoa-New Zealand

Indigenous Māori values and perspectives to inform freshwater management in Aotearoa-New Zealand

Considering land tenure in REDD+ participatory measurement, reporting, and verification: A case study from Indonesia

Political ecology and decolonial research: co-production with the Iñupiat in Utqiaġvik

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Enriching indigenous knowledge scholarship via collaborative methodologies: beyond the high tide's few hours

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Indigenous M&#257;ori values and perspectives to inform freshwater management in Aotearoa-New Zealand

Indigenous M&#257;ori values and perspectives to inform freshwater management in Aotearoa-New Zealand

Considering land tenure in REDD+ participatory measurement, reporting, and verification: A case study from Indonesia

Political ecology and decolonial research: co-production with the Iñupiat in Utqiaġvik

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Indigenous Māori values and perspectives to inform freshwater management in Aotearoa-New Zealand

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