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

拟议的五个地点数据分析会议将积极吸引社区成员参与对国家科学基金会北极圈土著成年之路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大约150名土著人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其中一些青年和老年人参与跨地点分析和知识生产。更具体地说，来自每个参与社区的Yupik、Inupiaq、Inuit、Sami和Eveny青年将制作数字剪辑，代表关键的跨地点调查结果。在跨站点会议上分享这些作品将邀请各社区就图像中明显（或明显缺失）的日常生活的关键方面进行对话。成年人和老年社区共同研究人员将能够借鉴和反思自己的生活经验，与其他社区的青年蒙太奇（以及与老年社区成员的历史观点）有关。由于参与社区的社会变革步伐各不相同，该项目有一个前所未有的机会，可以深入了解影响日常青年复原力的机制。通过萨米人、因努伊特人、尤皮克人、因努皮亚克人和Eveny老人、成年人和青年的反思，了解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，让当地人参与跨文化，跨国家的意义。跨学科的研究团队聚集在这里汇集了来自社会和医学人类学，心理学，公共卫生和教育的调查人员。这些不同的观点，包括土著社区成员的观点？应该提供深入了解不同的教育，社会和政治政策对土著青年成年后的经历的影响，特别是人类系统如何应对北极的社会转型。据我们所知，这项研究是第一次利用视觉诱导技术来促进国际，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.