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

拟议的五个地点的数据分析会议将积极促使社区成员对通过国家科学基金会环极土著成人之路(CIPA)研究产生的数据进行国际和跨地点分析。来自西伯利亚、挪威、加拿大和阿拉斯加的约150名土著人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青年和老年人中的一些人参与跨站点分析和知识生产。更具体地说，来自每个参与社区的Yupik、Inupiaq、Inuit、Sami和Eveny年轻人将制作数字蒙太奇，代表关键的跨站点发现。在跨网站会议上分享这些作品将邀请社区就日常生活中明显(或明显没有)图像的关键方面进行对话。成人和老年社区的共同研究人员将能够借鉴和反思他们自己与来自其他社区的青年蒙太奇(以及老年社区成员的历史观点)有关的生活经历。由于参与社区的社会变革速度各不相同，该项目有一个前所未有的机会，可以通过萨米人、因努伊特人、尤皮克人、因努皮克人和Eveny长老、成年人和青年的思考，深入了解影响日常青年复原力的机制--他们克服困难的过程。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、跨国家的意义创造中来。聚集在这里的跨学科研究团队汇集了来自社会和医学人类学、心理学、公共卫生和教育学的研究人员。这些不同的观点，包括土著社区成员的观点，应该有助于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变革的反应方式。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.