Reconciliation and Relationality in Water Research and Management in Canada: Implementing Indigenous Ontologies, Epistemologies, and Methodologies

Castleden, Heather; Hart, Catherine; Cunsolo, Ashlee; Harper, Sherilee L.; Martin, Debbie

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42806-2_5

Cited by 53 publications

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“…Ultimately, Two-Eyed Seeing encourages a useful re-articulation of water security frameworks, which engage Indigenous water relationships, and so also involve forms of cooperation that recognize multiple types of social, political and ecological limits while simultaneously prioritizing the authority of Indigenous peoples [77,[103][104][105]. Such an approach is required to overcome the trend towards "integration" of these knowledge systems in ways that reproduce colonial injustices.…”

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“…This does not mean we should discard Western science. Indeed, Castleden and others (2017) find that there are "instances where such approaches are working, where integrative Indigenous and Western knowledges have come together in respectful and responsible ways to challenge colonial policies and practices in the context of water research and management" [103] (p. 74). That said, moving beyond problematic approaches to "integration" are key to more completely and holistically redefining water security, wherein the conjunctures and disjunctures between systems are revealed [37].…”

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Water is Medicine: Reimagining Water Security through Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Relationships to Treated and Traditional Water Sources in Yukon, Canada

Wilson

Harris

Joseph-Rear³

et al. 2019

Water

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There is growing acknowledgement that the material dimensions of water security alone are inadequate; we also need to engage with a broader set of hydrosocial relationships. Indeed, more holistic approaches are needed to explain Indigenous peoples’ relationships to water including the use of traditional water sources such as mountain creeks and springs. In this paper, we seek to reimagine water security through a case study of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in’s relationships to both treated and traditional water sources throughout the First Nation’s traditional territory in Yukon, Canada. Through community-based research including interviews with Elders and other community members, we examine the importance of traditional water sources for meeting important health requirements including physical, spiritual and cultural wellbeing. This intervention contributes to ongoing debates about what it means to secure safe and affordable water in three key ways: First, we argue that Indigenous water relations invite a shift towards more a holistic understanding of water security; second, we contend that settler colonial politics should be understood as a root cause of water insecurity; finally, we explore how Two-Eyed Seeing can be applied as an alternative to the ‘integration’ of Western scientific and Indigenous approaches to drinking water.

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Water is Medicine: Reimagining Water Security through Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Relationships to Treated and Traditional Water Sources in Yukon, Canada

Wilson

Harris

Joseph-Rear³

et al. 2019

Water

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“…Yet despite this mandate, actionable examples of meeting this mission statement are understandably challenging. In this region, as in other areas of the world, nonscientific ways of knowing about nature from Indigenous communities are either hidden (Rodriguez 2017), ignored (Castleden et al 2017), or challenging to incorporate into Western environmental management (Tyrrell 2010).…”

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“…All of us come from a natural resource management background with experience doing community-based work, although we had varying experience with Indigenous communities. We saw an opportunity to use CVM as a way to bridge knowledge systems in a meaningful, reciprocal, and respectful way (Castleden et al 2017;Steelman et al 2019). We applied CVM through a multistep, collaborative process that included academic researchers and community members at every stage.…”

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Iñupiaq Values in Subsistence Harvesting: Applying the Community Voice Method in Northwest Alaska

Green

Fletcher

Beaudreau

et al. 2019

Society & Natural Resources

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Our study applied the Community Voice Method, a film-based community engagement approach, in a primarily Indigenous Arctic community to amplify voices of hunters regarding management of subsistence resources. Over a 30-month period we applied transdisciplinary methods to collaborate with the community of Kotzebue in northwestern Alaska on an original film. The goals of the film were to illustrate how Iñupiaq values and knowledge guide subsistence hunting practices through stories, educate youth and foster intergenerational dialog, and initiate discussions about inclusion of Indigenous values and knowledge in resource management. Here, we describe our application of this method and reflect on our successes and challenges, in hope that other practitioners can use this methodology to proactively identify community issues around natural resource management and, through an audiovisual medium, facilitate stakeholder empowerment in Indigenous communities.

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A cultural framework for Indigenous, Local, and Science knowledge systems in ecology and natural resource management

Varghese

Crawford

2020

Ecological Monographs

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The relationship between Indigenous, Local, and Science knowledge systems has been the subject of much debate over the past few decades, especially in ecology and natural resource management. In this monograph, we review available scholarship to develop a pragmatic framework for representation of knowledge systems in general, with specific emphasis on productive engagement between individuals from different communities and cultures. We distill operational definitions/explanations of fundamental concepts associated with data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. With these concepts clarified, we reconsider previous applications of sociocultural knowledge system thinking, focusing on system structure and function. Our analysis leads to convergence on a set of fundamental knowledge system processes and actor roles that have emerged repeatedly across many of the scholarly disciplines. We embed these key concepts within a general framework for operational characterization of sociocultural knowledge systems. In order to demonstrate existing and potential applications of the knowledge system framework, we present and discuss major trends in recent ecology and natural resource management literature. Finally, we propose that continued and collaborative development of this general framework can serve as a pragmatic tool for individuals from Indigenous, Local, and Science knowledge systems who wish to engage in reciprocal and meaningful dialogue with members of other knowledge systems, especially regarding the highly uncertain global future of ecology and natural resource management.

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Reconciliation and Relationality in Water Research and Management in Canada: Implementing Indigenous Ontologies, Epistemologies, and Methodologies

Cited by 53 publications

References 35 publications

Water is Medicine: Reimagining Water Security through Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Relationships to Treated and Traditional Water Sources in Yukon, Canada

Water is Medicine: Reimagining Water Security through Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Relationships to Treated and Traditional Water Sources in Yukon, Canada

Iñupiaq Values in Subsistence Harvesting: Applying the Community Voice Method in Northwest Alaska

A cultural framework for Indigenous, Local, and Science knowledge systems in ecology and natural resource management

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