Natural and Indigenous sciences: reflections on an attempt to collaborate
Natural and Indigenous sciences: reflections on an attempt to collaborate
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DOI：
10.1007/s10113-022-01967-3
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发表时间：
2022-12-01
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4.2
通讯作者：
Kater，Ilona
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作者：
Kater，Ilona
自然科学家在开展研究时越来越多地被鼓励与当地和土著社区接触。然而，这些合作的尝试会反复带来挑战，这些挑战的根源在于不同的利益相关者在整个研究过程中如何相互联系。本文探讨了作者的经验，一个早期的职业研究人员在自然科学的培训，在她试图进行跨学科的合作工作与萨米驯鹿牧民在北方。虽然这项工作的目的是创造非殖民化、合作和对当地有益的研究，但缺乏对如何有效地进行研究的认识，导致项目面临多重挑战。这主要是由于作者对关键的相关话语的理解不足，包括研究疲劳，合著的道德，不匹配的时间表，不匹配的学术和相关社区之间的期望和人际关系中的权力动态。这些都是人文地理学、社会科学和人类学等领域深入探讨的主题，但在整个自然科学中却没有得到充分考虑。这篇文章的目的是双重的。第一个是为希望参与合作研究的自然科学家提供路标，以研究有助于他们工作的关键文本和概念。这不是一个广泛的审查，而是什么是希望是一个访问的介绍。很简单，这是一篇作者在从事她的工作之前会很感激能接触到的文章。第二个目标是促进更广泛的讨论，探讨在自然科学领域开展更加多样化和非殖民化的培训的必要性，以便我们都能利用从知情、有意义和有效的合作中产生的知识，应对我们星球上目前发生的许多变化。
Natural scientists are increasingly being encouraged to engage with local and Indigenous communities when carrying out research. However, these attempts at collaboration can repeatedly bring up challenges that have their root in how the different stakeholders relate to one another throughout the research process. This essay explores the experiences of the author, an early career researcher trained in the natural sciences, in her attempts to undertake interdisciplinary collaborative work with Sámi reindeer herders in Northern Europe. Whilst underpinned with good intent of creating decolonial, collaborative and locally useful research, the practice of this work lacked awareness of how to do so effectively, leading to multiple challenges in the project. This was largely due to the author having an inadequate understanding of key relevant discourses, including research fatigue, ethics of co-authorship, mismatching timelines, mismatching expectations between academics and relevant communities and power dynamics in interpersonal relationships. These are topics that have been explored in-depth in fields such as human geography, social sciences and anthropology, yet they are insufficiently considered in the natural sciences as a whole. The purpose of this essay is two-fold. The first is to signpost natural scientists wishing to engage in collaborative research towards key texts and concepts that could aid their work. It is not an extensive review, but rather what is hopefully an accessible introduction. It is, quite simply, an essay that the author would have appreciated having access to before undertaking her work. The second is to contribute to a wider discussion around the need for a more diverse and decolonial training in the natural sciences, so we all can respond to the many changes currently occurring on our planet using knowledge generated from well-informed, meaningful and effective collaborations.