Ethical collaboration and the need for training: Partnerships between Native American Tribes and climate science organisations

Kirby, Caitlin K.; Haruo, Citralina; Whyte, Kyle Powys; Libarkin, Julie C.; Caldwell, Chris; Edler, Rebecca

doi:10.5130/ijcre.v12i1.5894

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“…Research on climate collaborations directly between Native Nations and federal agencies has demonstrated the need for climate scientists to receive ethics training before engaging tribal collectives (Kirby et al, 2019). It aims to keep scientists from undermining tribal sovereignties (Kalafatis et al, 2019).…”

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Indigenous-Settler Climate Change Boundary Organizations Contending With U.S. Colonialism

Dhillon

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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Indigenous peoples who are taking actions on climate change issues have formed networks that are at the intersect between Indigenous knowledges and various environmental science fields. These climate organizations work across many boundaries in science, politics, and culture. This article asks how large-scale U.S. climate boundary organizations that convene Indigenous and non-Indigenous climate practitioners contend with ongoing colonialism. Analysis indicates that Indigenous-settler networks offer avenues for Indigenous values to be practiced in collaborative climate science. Such organizations also provide limited opportunities to utilize climate science in tribal climate adaptation. While these boundary organizations aim to build meaningful cross-cultural and mentoring relationships, uneven power dynamics and resources also permeate the partnerships. These structural inequalities cause tensions to arise. Tensions further arise from uses of new terminology to navigate longstanding struggles over places, political sovereignties, and human relationships to natural worlds. I argue that a decolonial environmental framework discerns roles for Indigenous governance in attending to anthropogenic climate change. The approach broadens sociological understandings of climate change by examining the attempts of Indigenous and non-Indigenous actors to build climate networks.

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Indigenous-Settler Climate Change Boundary Organizations Contending With U.S. Colonialism

Dhillon

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Further, important power dynamics have been uncovered in partnerships between Native American communities and climate science organizations (Kirby et al, ). Native American communities more often identified challenges in their partnerships with climate science organizations, while climate science organizations more often identified the benefits of these partnerships (Kirby et al, ). This observation represents a striking parallel to the power‐laden geographical mismatch that we have seen in climate change adaptation literature focusing on equity, and it suggests ongoing colonization in knowledge production by the Global North (Todd, ).…”

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“…More broadly, it has even been suggested that the Anthropocene as a whole, and its associated knowledge production, is a continuation of colonial dispossession and disempowerment (Davis & Todd, 2017). Further, important power dynamics have been uncovered in partnerships between Native American communities and climate science organizations (Kirby et al, 2019). Native American communities more often identified challenges in their partnerships with climate science organizations, while climate science organizations more often identified the benefits of these partnerships (Kirby et al, 2019).…”

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The framing of power in climate change adaptation research

Woroniecki

Krüger

Rau

et al. 2019

WIREs Climate Change

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Power mechanisms and structures shape climate change adaptation outcomes, the measures adopted, and who is identified as requiring adaptation support. But to what extent does research recognize such power‐adaptation linkages? Based on a systematic literature review, we enquire if and how the framing of power matters for adaptation research and what the implications may be for practice. Our enquiry is predicated on the relationship between the researcher and the research focus being itself a relationship of power. Since power is complex and a single definition is not desirable, different actor‐orientated frames of power were used for the data analysis. The results show that authors are more likely to work with issues of power to (i.e., agency), power over, and empowerment, rather than resistance or disempowerment. Demonstrating the effect of such frames, these proportions change according to whether the research focuses on equity, effectiveness, or participation. For instance, power to is strongly associated with effectiveness, while disempowerment is associated more with equity. Together with other identified patterns, our review shows that researchers frame power in adaptation in ways that constitute biases and blind spots. Attention to particular frames of power can limit attention to important dynamics within adaptation processes. Both the content and context to which the identified frames are applied suggest structural trends in adaptation research that require increased attention. Since researchers' frames of power influence both research outcomes and broader adaptation‐power relations, the results indicate that reflexivity is needed to improve both adaptation research and practice. This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Institutions for Adaptation

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“…Rather than engage in another effort to interview community residents, we elected to engage community-identified experts in a co-analysis of the existing information. This approach is part of a shift in the role of community participants from providers of information to interpreters of information, and part of a wider movement towards meaningful collaborations, Indigenous leadership in research, and the co-production of knowledge, a paradigm emphasizing the need to work together from start to finish in research projects (Lemos and Morehouse, 2005;Bartlett et al, 2012;Meadow et al, 2015;Whyte, 2017;David-Chavez and Gavin, 2018;Peltier, 2018;Kirby et al, 2019). The aim of the study and of this paper therefore is not to generate or report new observations and basic information, but to take a new look at what is already on record, to better understand the meanings and implications of that existing information from the perspective of Indigenous communities.…”

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“We Never Get Stuck:” A Collaborative Analysis of Change and Coastal Community Subsistence Practices in the Northern Bering and Chukchi Seas, Alaska

Huntington¹,

Raymond-Yakoubian²,

Noongwook³

et al. 2021

ARCTIC

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The Indigenous communities of the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea are experiencing extensive social, economic, and technological change. The region’s marine ecosystem is also characterized by a high degree of variability and by rapid change. Residents of eight coastal communities from Savoonga to Utqiaġvik were involved in the Chukchi Coastal Communities Project, which used the results of a literature review together with the experiences of the community participants to co-analyze what is known about societal and environmental change in the region and what the communities’ experiences have been in responding to those changes. Some of the observed changes are transient in duration and effect, such as the passage of an individual ship, whereas others, such as the creation of the Red Dog Mine Port Site, persist and may force coastal residents to make lasting changes in their activities. Some responses can use existing knowledge (e.g., hunting bowhead whales in fall as well as spring), whereas others may require learning and experimentation (e.g., harvesting new species such as the Hanasaki crab). Our findings show that the results of a change are more important than the source of the change. They also emphasize the continuing importance of traditional values and practices as well as attitudes conducive to persistence and innovation. Indigenous leadership is an essential component of continued resilience as the ecosystem continues to change. The resilient characteristics of coastal communities and their ability to determine their own responses to change need greater attention to match the research effort directed at understanding the ecosystem.

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Ethical collaboration and the need for training: Partnerships between Native American Tribes and climate science organisations

Cited by 7 publications

References 33 publications

Indigenous-Settler Climate Change Boundary Organizations Contending With U.S. Colonialism

Indigenous-Settler Climate Change Boundary Organizations Contending With U.S. Colonialism

The framing of power in climate change adaptation research

“We Never Get Stuck:” A Collaborative Analysis of Change and Coastal Community Subsistence Practices in the Northern Bering and Chukchi Seas, Alaska

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