Collaborative Research: IPY: Negotiating Pathways to Adulthood: Social Change and Indigenous Culture in Four Circumpolar Communities

当代社会快速变化的动力极大地影响了环极地土著人民的政治、文化和经济制度。根据国际极地年(IPY)的三个优先领域，该项目打算(1)加强环极地机构之间的国际合作，(2)留下基础设施和数据遗产，(3)提高土著研究和行动能力。路径研究是一个比较、合作和参与性的绕极研究项目。其目的是通过环极青年的生活经历来探索对快速社会转型的反应。这项拟议的研究将审查80个年轻人的生活史叙事。这些故事将来自阿拉斯加因努皮特人、阿拉斯加尤皮克人、加拿大因纽特人和西伯利亚晚间社区。此外，研究小组正在利用额外的资金来源开展合作，以检查来自挪威萨姆和格陵兰社区的另外40名青年的叙述。在这项研究中，研究小组打算在这些不同的环极环境中确定共同和不同的压力源和成年过渡中的弹性模式。青年复原力被定义为在成年过程中克服急性和持续困难的能力。研究人员试图确定反映两个年龄段(11-14岁和15-18岁)以及跨性别复原力的文化战略和资源。北极土著社区共同的殖民历史和当代社会苦难的影响已通过数十年的北极社会科学研究得到广泛记录。土著青年的健康适应和复原力问题尚未得到充分考虑，健康适应和复原力的发展轨迹相对未予探索。这项研究旨在以土著类别为基础，描述年轻人应对不同于其父母和祖父母的挑战的社会经验和资源，形成具有文化模式的复原力战略。这将提供对支持青年健康发展的家庭、社区和文化背景的洞察，并确定成功预防和干预土著青年健康战略的关键因素。对六个环极地社区的研究还将对不同的社会、政治、文化和经济制度对青年发展的影响提供前所未有的见解，并为环极青年提供有效的社会政策。该项目建立并维持当地社区机构、社区合作研究人员和国际大学研究人员多学科团队之间的长期参与性研究关系。在该项目的所有阶段都强调土著社区合作研究人员的参与和指导，其目的是回应当地对青年复原力和福祉的强烈兴趣。将与地方指导委员会(LSC)合作，制定面谈时间表、数据收集程序和分析，以确保其文化根基。每个LSC的一名代表将通过成为国际环极地指导委员会的成员积极参与跨地点工作。与社区和区域土著组织的传播将有助于建立一个发展中的环极社区网络，这些社区从事预防自杀、促进集体福祉和发展环极土著身份。这项研究还将建立追踪程序、参与性研究基础设施和绕极国际合作，为未来安全进入成年期的纵向、前瞻性研究奠定基础。

Contemporary dynamics of rapid social change have dramatically affected the political, cultural, and economic systems of circumpolar Indigenous people. In line with three of the International Polar Year (IPY) priority areas, this project intends to (1) increase international collaboration between circumpolar institutions, (2) leave a legacy of infrastructure and data, and (3) increase Indigenous capacity for research and action. The Pathways study is a comparative, collaborative, and participatory circumpolar research project. Its aims are to explore responses to rapid social transition through the life experiences of circumpolar youth. The proposed study will examine 80 youth life history narratives. These narratives will come from an Alaska Inupiat, Alaska Yupik, Canadian Inuit, and Siberian Eveny community. In addition, the research team is developing collaborations using additional funding sources to examine the narratives of an additional 40 youth from a Norwegian Samì and Greenlandic community. In this study, the team intends to identify shared and divergent stressors and patterns of resilience in the transition to adulthood across these different circumpolar settings. Youth resilience is defined as the ability to overcome acute and on-going difficulties in the pathway to adulthood. The investigators seek to identify cultural strategies and resources that characterize resiliency across two age groups, ages 11-14 and 15-18, and across gender.The impact of a shared colonial history and contemporary social suffering among indigenous communities in the Arctic has been extensively documented through decades of Arctic social science research. The issue of healthy adaptation and resilience among Indigenous youth has not been adequately considered, leaving developmental trajectories of healthy adaptation and resilience relatively unexplored. This research aims to build on Indigenous categories to describe the social experiences and resources shaping culturally patterned resilience strategies of young people responding to challenges distinct from those of their parents and grandparents. This will provide insights into the family, community, and cultural contexts that support healthy youth development, and identify key ingredients to successful prevention and intervention health strategies for Indigenous young people. Study across six circumpolar communities will also provide unprecedented insights into the effect of diverse social, political, cultural, and economic systems on youth development, and inform effective social policy for circumpolar youth.This project builds on and sustains long-term participatory research relationships between local community institutions, community co-researchers, and a multidisciplinary team of international university researchers. Indigenous community co-researcher involvement and direction is emphasized throughout all phases of this project, whose aims respond to strong local interest in youth resilience and wellbeing. Development of interview schedules, data collection procedures, and the analysis will be in collaboration with Local Steering Committees (LSC) to ensure their cultural grounding. A representative from each LSC will be actively involved in the cross-site work through membership in an international Circumpolar Steering Committee. Dissemination with communities and regional Indigenous organizations will contribute to a developing network of circumpolar communities engaged in suicide prevention, promotion of collective wellbeing, and development of a circumpolar Indigenous identity. The study will also establish tracking procedures, participatory research infrastructure, and international circumpolar collaboration for future longitudinal, prospective study of safe passage into adulthood.