Community Adaptations and Knowledge Sharing in Alaska and Siberia: Utilizing Indigenous Research Methods

阿拉斯加和西伯利亚的社区适应和知识共享：利用本土研究方法

• 批准号: 1424042
• 负责人: Stacy Rasmus
• 金额: $ 94.46万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-15 至 2023-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1424042&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Community; Adaptations; Knowledge; Sharing; Alaska

Colonialism and environmental change threaten the overall survival of Indigenous Arctic people. They must continually innovate and adopt new strategies for social persistence, adaptation and transformation. The goal of the Community Adaptation project is to discover indigenous patterns of adaptive and resilient responses to critical situations through an exchange of knowledge between members of two arctic communities in Alaska and Siberia. The project aims to: 1) develop and implement a fieldwork course and knowledge exchange with indigenous youth, community members and leaders from Alaska and Siberia; 2) conduct two fieldwork exchanges in Alaska and Siberia with indigenous community collaborators; 3) develop a comparative model of social resilience and community sustainability that describes how diverse communities in the Arctic are coping, adapting, and transforming as a result of changing social and environmental conditions; and 4) establish an innovative methodology for engaging arctic indigenous community members in collaborative research. The study will be the first to engage indigenous community members from Alaska and Siberia in a collaborative exchange and discovery process as part of a research design utilizing innovative indigenous research methodologies. The study adds a critical new perspective to resilience theory that takes into account the transformative capacity of indigenous peoples and communities. The proposed study aims to impact the international indigenous and scientific communities by broadening the inclusion of underrepresented minorities in research, and more effectively engaging indigenous communities and peoples as part of research collaborations.

殖民主义和环境变化威胁着北极土著人民的整体生存。 他们必须不断创新，并采取新的战略，以实现社会持久性、适应性和变革。 社区适应项目的目标是通过阿拉斯加和西伯利亚两个北极社区成员之间的知识交流，发现土著人对紧急情况作出适应性和复原力反应的模式。该项目旨在：（1）与阿拉斯加和西伯利亚的土著青年、社区成员和领导人制定和实施实地工作课程和知识交流;（2）在阿拉斯加和西伯利亚与土著社区合作者进行两次实地工作交流; 3）建立社会复原力和社区可持续性的比较模型，描述北极不同社区如何应对，适应，以及随着社会和环境条件的变化而改变;以及4）建立一种创新方法，让北极土著社区成员参与合作研究。这项研究将是第一次让阿拉斯加和西伯利亚的土著社区成员参与合作交流和发现进程，作为利用创新土著研究方法的研究设计的一部分。该研究为复原力理论增添了一个重要的新视角，考虑到土著人民和社区的变革能力。拟议的研究旨在通过扩大将代表性不足的少数群体纳入研究，并更有效地让土著社区和人民参与研究合作，从而对国际土著和科学界产生影响。