Indigenous Knowledges of forest and biodiversity management: how the <i>watchfulness</i> of Māori complements and contributes to disaster risk reduction

Lambert, Simon J.; Mark-Shadbolt, Melanie

doi:10.1177/11771801211038760

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“…We approached this analysis with suspicion as well as faith (Josselson, 2004 ), and remain wary that Indigenous cosmologies may be co‐opted and used to legitimise humanitarian intervention in ways that depoliticise, especially as those communications that do engage some of these cosmologies do not come close to communicating the rich cosmologies of many Indigenous Peoples. Echoing previous research about Indigenous knowledge (Lambert and Mark‐Shadbolt, 2021 ), this is a complex entwining of worldviews and motivations, where the line between silencing, co‐opting, misappropriating, and respecting Indigenous knowledge is blurred.…”

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confidence: 99%

International humanitarian narratives of disasters, crises, and Indigeneity

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Narratives are a means of making sense of disasters and crises. The humanitarian sector communicates stories widely, encompassing representations of peoples and events. Such communications have been critiqued for misrepresenting and/or silencing the root causes of disasters and crises, depoliticising them. What has not been researched is how such communications represent disasters and crises in Indigenous settings. This is important because processes such as colonisation are often at the origin but are typically masked in communications. A narrative analysis of humanitarian communications is employed here to identify and characterise narratives in humanitarian communications involving Indigenous Peoples. Narratives differ based upon how the humanitarians who produce them think that disasters and crises should be governed. The paper concludes that humanitarian communications reflect more about the relationship between the international humanitarian community and its audience than reality, and underlines that narratives mask global processes that link audiences of humanitarian communications with Indigenous Peoples.

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“…This means that genomic material and data can remain in the hands of the involved communities, who can subsequently be in control of their own diagnostics and maintain self-determination. M aori, like many other indigenous communities globally, are a recognized force in the front lines of biosecurity surveillance and conservation management (Lambert & Mark-Shadbolt, 2021). In Te Ao M aori (the world of the Mori), the entire Earth is known as Papat u anuku, the Earth mother, and all life depends upon Papat u anuku for their wellbeing.…”

Section: Communitymentioning

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Real‐time genomics for One Health

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Perlas,

Francino

et al. 2023

Molecular Systems Biology

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The ongoing degradation of natural systems and other environmental changes has put our society at a crossroad with respect to our future relationship with our planet. While the concept of One Health describes how human health is inextricably linked with environmental health, many of these complex interdependencies are still not well‐understood. Here, we describe how the advent of real‐time genomic analyses can benefit One Health and how it can enable timely, in‐depth ecosystem health assessments. We introduce nanopore sequencing as the only disruptive technology that currently allows for real‐time genomic analyses and that is already being used worldwide to improve the accessibility and versatility of genomic sequencing. We showcase real‐time genomic studies on zoonotic disease, food security, environmental microbiome, emerging pathogens, and their antimicrobial resistances, and on environmental health itself – from genomic resource creation for wildlife conservation to the monitoring of biodiversity, invasive species, and wildlife trafficking. We stress why equitable access to real‐time genomics in the context of One Health will be paramount and discuss related practical, legal, and ethical limitations.

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“…Hillier, Chaccour, Al‐Shammaa, & Vorstermans, 2020). Reducing the risk of future disease outbreaks requires empirical observations attuned to community‐led solutions that can be seen as locally‐led ‘watchfulness’ (Lambert & Mark‐Shadbolt, 2021). Indigenous guardianship does not exclude Western science and data gathered by remote sensing, but in many regions around the world, it will be Indigenous knowledge holders and their communities who are eyewitnesses and first responders to pests and diseases that threaten ecosystems and keystone species that are remote from other eyes (Artelle et al, 2019).…”

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Understanding and strengthening wildlife and zoonotic disease policy processes: A research imperative

Clark

Antwi-Boasiako

Brook

et al. 2022

Zoonoses and Public Health

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The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the urgency and importance of monitoring, managing and addressing zoonotic diseases, and the acute challenges of doing so with sufficient inter-jurisdictional coordination in a dynamic global context. Although wildlife pathogens are well-studied clinically and ecologically, there is very little systematic scholarship on their management or on policy implications. The current global pandemic therefore presents a unique social science research imperative: to understand how decisions are made about preventing and responding to wildlife diseases, especially zoonoses, and how those policy processes can be improved as part of early warning systems, preparedness and rapid response. To meet these challenges, we recommend intensified research efforts towards: (i) generating functional insights about wildlife and zoonotic disease policy processes, (ii) enabling social and organizational learning to mobilize those insights, (iii) understanding epistemic instability to address populist anti-science and (iv) anticipating evolving and new zoonotic emergences, especially their human dimensions. Since policy processes for zoonoses can be acutely challenged during the early stages of an epidemic or pandemic, such insights can provide a pragmatic, empirically-based roadmap for enhancing their robustness and efficacy, and benefiting long-term decision-making efforts.

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Indigenous Knowledges of forest and biodiversity management: how the watchfulness of Māori complements and contributes to disaster risk reduction

Cited by 17 publications

References 32 publications

International humanitarian narratives of disasters, crises, and Indigeneity

International humanitarian narratives of disasters, crises, and Indigeneity

Real‐time genomics for One Health

Understanding and strengthening wildlife and zoonotic disease policy processes: A research imperative

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