Collaborative Research: Knowledge Co-production: communities and scientists working together to explore nature, culture, and Alaska Native well-being in a changing Alaska.

该项目将阿拉斯加原住民社区合作伙伴和大学研究人员聚集在一起，共同开发研究重点，指导协作数据收集，并解释有关广泛公众和理论关注的问题的发现。具体来说，该项目促进了合作，以应对阿拉斯加北部化石燃料开发面临的日益严峻的挑战，包括海岸线侵蚀、依赖石油的生存活动、新的海上钻探计划、红利减少以及前所未有的环境变化。该项目旨在让土著社区参与到围绕这些问题的更广泛的研究和政策对话中，该项目的灵感来自于创新社区的努力，以确保生存，确保福祉，并在快速变化的背景下创造可行的文化未来。通过围绕这些见解建立一个独特的区域研究联盟，该项目还旨在修订对我们这个时代一些最紧迫主题的共同理解，包括健康和健康、不平等、不断变化的生态系统以及阿拉斯加以石油为基础的社会契约的前景。该项目将直接惠及合作社区、科学界和科学界、决策者以及加强美国民主的努力。该项目为关注北极未来的公开相关社会科学研究做出了三个主要贡献。首先，它开发了一种协作方法，使阿拉斯加土著社区研究伙伴能够在自己的社区内设计、协调和实施研究问题和活动。其次，非殖民化方法论努力重新思考北极社会科学研究的分析词汇，从而修改当前一些最大问题的学术方法，包括关于北极未来的知识是谈判和共同生产的方式。最后，这个项目通过为一个更广泛的研究网络奠定基础，将这些知识的广泛影响最大化，这个研究网络将土著和科学的见解带到今天阿拉斯加北部最关键的公共问题上。这项研究的结果还将推动几个学术机构的对话，这些机构涉及非殖民化方法、北极生态和经济的变化以及土著居民的福祉。通过这种方式，该项目将通过对北极及其开放式未来进行更具包容性的探索来参与当前的辩论。

This project brings together Alaska Native community partners and university researchers to develop shared research priorities, guide collaborative data collection, and interpret findings about issues of broad public and theoretical concern. Specifically, this project prompts collaborative engagements with the increasing challenges to fossil fuel development in northern Alaska, including: eroding coastlines, petroleum-dependent subsistence activities, plans for new offshore drilling, dwindling dividends,and unprecedented environmental shifts. Seeking to involve Native communities within wider conversations across research and policy around these concerns, this project is inspired by innovative community efforts to secure subsistence, insure wellbeing, and create viable cultural futures in a context of rapid change. By building a unique regional research alliance around these insights, the project also aims to revise common understandings about some of the most pressing topics of our times, including health and wellness, inequality, changing ecosystems, and the prospects of a petroleum-based social contract in Alaska. This project will directly benefit partner communities, science and scientific communities, policy-makers and efforts to strengthen American democracy. The project makes three primary contributions to publicly relevant social science research focused on Arctic futures. First, it develops a collaborative method that empowers Alaska Native community research partners to design, coordinate, and implement research questions and activities within their own communities.  Second, a decolonizing methodology endeavors to rethink the analytic lexicons of Arctic social science research, and thus to revise scholarly approaches to some of the biggest issues of the present, including the ways that knowledge about Arctic futures is negotiated and co-produced. Finally, this project maximizes the broader impacts of this knowledge by laying the foundation for a wider research network that brings Indigenous and scientific insights to bear on the most critical public problems in northern Alaska today. Findings from the study will also advance conversations in several bodies of scholarship concerned with decolonizing methodologies, shifting Arctic ecologies and economies, and Indigenous wellbeing.  In such ways, the project will engage current debates by creating a more inclusive exploration of the Arctic and its open-ended futures.