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态极大地影响了极地土著人民的政治、文化和经济制度。与国际极地年（IPY）的三个优先领域一致，该项目旨在(1)增加极地机构之间的国际合作，(2)留下基础设施和数据的遗产，以及(3)提高土著研究和行动的能力。路径研究是一个比较、合作和参与的极地研究项目。其目的是通过极地青年的生活经历来探索对快速社会转型的反应。本研究将检视80个年轻人的生活史叙述。这些故事将来自阿拉斯加因纽特人、阿拉斯加尤皮克人、加拿大因纽特人和西伯利亚埃文人社区。此外，研究小组正在利用额外的资金来源开展合作，以研究来自挪威Samì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极地环境中确定共同的和不同的压力源以及向成年过渡的弹性模式。青年适应力被定义为在通往成年的道路上克服严重和持续困难的能力。研究人员试图确定跨两个年龄组（11-14岁和15-18岁）和跨性别的文化策略和资源。几十年来，北极社会科学研究广泛记录了北极土著社区共同的殖民历史和当代社会苦难的影响。土著青年的健康适应和复原力问题没有得到充分考虑，健康适应和复原力的发展轨迹相对来说没有得到探索。本研究旨在以土著类别为基础，描述塑造年轻人应对不同于其父母和祖父母的挑战的文化模式弹性策略的社会经验和资源。这将有助于深入了解支持青年健康发展的家庭、社区和文化背景，并确定土著青年成功预防和干预健康战略的关键因素。对六个环极地社区的研究也将为不同的社会、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，并为环极地青年提供有效的社会政策。该项目建立并维持了当地社区机构、社区共同研究人员和国际大学研究人员组成的多学科团队之间的长期参与性研究关系。项目的各个阶段都强调土著社区共同研究人员的参与和指导，其目的是响应当地对青年适应力和福祉的强烈兴趣。访谈日程、数据收集程序和分析的制定将与地方指导委员会（LSC）合作，以确保其文化基础。每一个海洋服务委员会的一名代表将通过成为国际环极指导委员会的成员积极参与跨站点的工作。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，参与自杀预防、促进集体福祉和发展环极土著身份。该研究还将建立跟踪程序、参与性研究基础设施和国际环极地合作，为未来安全进入成年期的纵向、前瞻性研究做准备。

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.