Dissertation Research: Knowledge and Ethics in the Debate Over Inuit Suicide

这是一项学位论文改进补助金，仅需12,000美元，用于支付交通费、青年视频纪录片子项目的视频用品、告密者酬金和一名兼职研究助理。因纽特人自杀辩论中的知识和伦理(知识和伦理)是一个长期(12个月)、多地点(伊卡卢伊特、庞尼尔东、多伦多)的人种学研究项目，旨在了解关于自杀的知识是如何在多元文化和后殖民环境中产生的。《知识与伦理》通过半结构化访谈、对话、档案研究和一个青年视频项目，建议研究西方医学、科学和新闻知识对因纽特人自杀主题的社会和政治影响。此外，《知识与伦理》确定并分析因纽特人的认知方式和西方生物医学知识之间的对话。精神病学家、家庭成员和自杀个人对有关人类生命、生命保护(伦理)和自我的研究问题的不同反应，应该提供关于现实的不同概念和意义如何被创造的数据。通过仔细的话语分析，研究人员希望找出在加拿大北极出现的对人类生活进行概念化的新方法。通过这些分析，本研究建议加强和挑战关于知识的文化建构、土著身份和自杀的意义的理论讨论，并有助于正在进行的关于在剧变和文化对抗中创造知识的辩论。

This is a dissertation improvement grant for a modest $12,000 to cover transportation, video supplies for a Youth Video Documentary sub-project, informant honoraria, and a part-time research assistant. Knowledge and Ethics in the Debate Over Inuit Suicide (Knowledge and Ethics) is a long-term (12 month), multi-sited (Iqaluit, Pangnirtung, Toronto) ethnographic research project that seeks to understand how knowledge about suicide is produced in a multi-cultural and post-colonial milieu. Through semi-structured interviews, conversation, archival research, and a youth video project, Knowledge and Ethics proposes to study the social and political implications of western medical, scientific and journalistic knowledge on the subject of Inuit suicide.In addition, Knowledge and Ethics identifies and analyzes the dialog between Inuit ways of knowing and western biomedical knowledge. The divergent responses of psychiatrists, family members and suicidal individuals to research questions concerning human life, the preservation of life (ethics), and the self should provide data about different conceptions of reality and how meaning is created. Through careful discourse analysis the investigators hope to identify new ways of conceptualizing human life that are emerging in the Canadian arctic. Through such analyses, this research proposes to enhance and challenge theoretical discussions on the cultural construction of knowledge, indigenous identity, and the meanings of suicide, as well as, contribute to the ongoing debate about the creation of knowledge amidst upheaval and cultural confrontation.