Mapping and Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic

Raymond-Yakoubian, Julie; Pulsifer, Peter; Taylor, D. R. Fraser; Brattland, Camilla; Mustonen, Tero

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-25674-6_13

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“…When constructive relationships exist between Indigenous Peoples and local governments, mapping traditional hunting grounds, for instance, can enable collaborative management and monitoring of natural resources threatened by development or climate change (e.g. Johnson et al, 2015;Raymond-Yakoubian et al, 2020).…”

Section: Indigenous Landsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How data governance principles influence participation in biodiversity science

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Elliott

2023

Science as Culture

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Biodiversity science is in a pivotal period when diverse groups of actorsincluding researchers, businesses, national governments, and Indigenous Peoplesare negotiating wide-ranging norms for governing and managing biodiversity data in digital repositories. The management of these repositories, often called biodiversity data portals, can serve either to redress or to perpetuate the colonial history of biodiversity science and current inequities. Both researchers and Indigenous Peoples are implementing new strategies to influence whom biodiversity data portals recognise as salient participants in data management and use. Two notable efforts are the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and CARE (Collective benefit, Authority, Responsibility, Ethics) Data Principles. Actors use these principles to influence the governance of biodiversity data portals. 'Fit-for-use' data is a social status provided by groups of actors who approve whether the data meets specific purposes. Advocates for the FAIR and CARE Principles use them in a similar way to institutionalise the authority of different groups of actors. However, the FAIR Principles prioritise the ability of machine agents to understand the meanings of data, while the CARE Principles prioritise Indigenous Peoples and their data sovereignty. Together, FAIR and CARE illustrate a broader emerging strategy for institutionalising international norms for digital repositories about who they should recognise as having a formal role in determinations of the fitness-for-use of data.

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Section: Indigenous Landsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How data governance principles influence participation in biodiversity science

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Elliott

2023

Science as Culture

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“…(Alessa et al 2011, 245). Some efforts, such as Pearce and Louis's (2008) depth of place in Hawai'i, Pearce's (2008) seasonal maps of the North West Company routes, Yorta Yorta management of secret and sacred indigenous knowledge in Australia (Veland et al 2014;Lynch et al 2016), the Waipunikahaluu mapping on Hawaii (Bremer et al 2015), Yates et al 's (2017) mapping of river ontologies in Canada, Cogos et al (2017) on Sámi place names and maps in Sweden and the work on mapping indigenous knowledge in the Arctic by Raymond-Yakoubian et al (2020), show examples of the challenges and possibilities of drawing maps of indigenous territory.…”

Section: Making Mapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The herders' portrayal of bottlenecks in the landscape shows not only the difficult places for the reindeer to pass through. Equally important is the space in between different knowledge systems-in which the more linear and additive map layers in themselves cannot illustrate, without the translation by the herders that actually hold this contextual knowledge of human-animal interactions in the landscape (Raymond-Yakoubian et al 2020;Löfmarck and Lidskog 2019;Joly et al 2018). Heggmoen illustrates this in that numerous factors combined effect herding in often unpredictable ways.…”

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“…The increasing cumulative pressures that arise from interactions between different stressors through space and time on reindeer herds are not visible in these maps, leading to planning decisions that erode reindeer pasture access and Sámi livelihoods. A need for richer maps that capture more of the complexity in the landscape has been recognized by both reindeer herders and government authorities (Risvoll et al 2019), as well as by researchers in other contexts (Raymond-Yakoubian et al 2020;Chapin et al 2005;Pearce and Louis 2008).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Maps and stories in the creation of richer accounts of change in pastoral landscapes in Nordland, northern Norway

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The categories and concepts in the existing official land-use maps have been under improvements over recent years; however, this study from Nordland, northern Norway, shows that they continue to pose several dilemmas when aiming to better capture the impacts of multiple land uses on reindeer herding. While these developments have done much to better communicate the presence of reindeer herding to developers and planners, there remain significant challenges to achieve best practices. In particular, the confluence of multiple landscape features, for instance, roads, farmland, ecoregions, tenure, pastures, tourism paths and cabins, may have interactions that create cumulative impacts that do not “add up” neatly across map layers. Migration routes, herding routes, and resting areas have been introduced in these maps. In collaboration with reindeer herders, this article analyses how to enrich mapping practices by for example including bottlenecks, parallel to increased attention to influence zones and avoidance zones, as important emergent impacts of multiple interacting features of the landscape. Our research reveals how local knowledge developed by herders through their “presence in the landscape” is better capable of accounting for interactions and cumulative dimensions of landscape features. Through our participatory mapping approach with Sámi reindeer herders, we focus on ways of combining reindeer herders’ knowledge and GIS maps and demonstrate the potential in collaborative work between herders and policymakers in generating a richer understanding of land-use change. We conclude that the practical knowledge of people inhabiting and living with the landscape and its changing character generates a rich understanding of cumulative impacts and can be harnessed for improved land-use mapping and multi-level governance.

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