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

合作研究：知识共同生产：社区和科学家共同努力探索不断变化的阿拉斯加的自然、文化和阿拉斯加原住民的福祉。

• 批准号: 1737691
• 负责人: David Bond
• 金额: $ 15.03万
• 依托单位: Bennington College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1737691&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Knowledge; Co; production

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.

该项目汇集了阿拉斯加原住民社区合作伙伴和大学研究人员，以制定共同的研究重点，指导协作数据收集，并解释有关广泛公众和理论关注问题的调查结果。具体而言，该项目促进了与北方阿拉斯加化石燃料开发日益增加的挑战的合作，包括：侵蚀海岸线，依赖石油的生计活动，新的海上钻井计划，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围绕这些问题的研究和政策的更广泛对话，其灵感来自于创新的社区努力，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，该项目还旨在修改对我们这个时代一些最紧迫的话题的共同理解，包括健康和保健，不平等，不断变化的生态系统，以及阿拉斯加石油社会契约的前景。该项目为关注北极未来的公共相关社会科学研究做出了三个主要贡献。首先，它开发了一种合作方法，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，非殖民化方法努力重新思考北极社会科学研究的分析词汇，从而修改目前一些最大问题的学术方法，包括谈判和共同产生关于北极未来的知识的方式。最后，该项目通过为更广泛的研究网络奠定基础，最大限度地发挥这一知识的更广泛影响，使土著和科学见解能够影响当今北方阿拉斯加最关键的公共问题。该研究的结果还将推动几个学术机构关于非殖民化方法，北极生态和经济变化以及土著福祉的对话。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。