Collaborative Research: Using Visual Methods to Engage Indigenous Youth and Community Members in Cross-Site, International Analysis: A Methodological Study

拟议的五站点数据分析会议将积极吸引社区成员参与通过国家科学基金会环极地土著成年途径（CIPA）研究产生的数据的国际和跨站点分析。来自西伯利亚、挪威、加拿大和阿拉斯加的大约150名土著居民一直在积极指导这项国际极地年研究。目前的项目将进一步让这些年轻人和老年人参与跨站点分析和知识生产。更具体地说，尤皮克人、因纽特人、因纽特人、萨米人和每个参与社区的年轻人将制作数字蒙太奇，代表关键的跨站点发现。在跨站点会议上分享这些作品将邀请跨社区讨论日常生活的关键方面，这些方面在图像中是明显的（或明显缺席的）。成人和老年社区的共同研究人员将能够从其他社区的青年蒙太奇（以及老年社区成员的历史观点）中吸取和反思他们自己的生活经历。由于参与社区的社会变革步伐不同，这个项目有一个前所未有的机会来深入了解影响青少年日常适应能力的机制。他们克服困难的过程——通过萨米人、因纽特人、尤皮克人、因努皮克人以及所有老年人、成年人和年轻人的反思。我们相信这种方法提供了一个独特的机会，让当地人参与到跨文化、跨国的意义创造中来。这个跨学科的研究团队汇集了来自社会和医学人类学、心理学、公共卫生和教育领域的研究人员。这些不同的观点，包括土著社区成员的观点？应该深入了解不同的教育、社会和政治政策对土著青年成年后经历的影响，特别是人类系统对北极社会转型的反应方式。据我们所知，这项研究是第一次利用视觉启发技术来促进国际、跨学科和社区参与的数据分析。

The proposed five-site data analysis meeting will actively engage community members in international and cross-site analysis of data generated through the National Science Foundation Circumpolar Indigenous Pathways to Adulthood (CIPA) study. Approximately 150 Indigenous people from Siberia, Norway, Canada and Alaska have been actively guiding this International Polar Year study. The current project will further involve some of these youth and elders in cross-site analysis and knowledge production. More specifically, Yupik, Inupiaq, Inuit, Sami and Eveny young people from each participating community will produce digital montages that represent key cross-site findings. Sharing these productions at the cross-site meeting will invite dialogue across communities about key aspects of daily life that are evident (or noticeably absent from) the images. The adult and elder community co-researchers will be able to draw on and reflect upon their own life experiences in relation to the youth montages (and in relation to historic perspectives from older community members) from other communities. Because of the variant pace of social change across the participating communities, this project has an unprecedented opportunity for insight into mechanisms impacting everyday youth resilience?the processes by which they get through difficulties--through the reflections of Sami, Inuit, Yupik, Inupiaq and Eveny elders, adults and youth. We believe this method provides a unique opportunity to engage local people in cross-cultural, cross-national meaning-making. The interdisciplinary research team assembled here brings together investigators from social and medical anthropology, psychology, public health, and education. These diverse perspectives, including those of the indigenous community members?should provide insights into the effect of diverse educational, social, and political policies on the experiences of Indigenous youth as they become adults, and, specifically, into the ways human systems are responding to social transformation in the Arctic. To our knowledge, this study is the first of its kind to utilize visual elicitation techniques to facilitate international, interdisciplinary and community-engaged data analysis.