DDIRG: Boundary-walkers: Insights into expertise and practices of translation between Indigenous knowledge and Western natural science

DDIRG：边界行走者：深入了解土著知识与西方自然科学之间的专业知识和实践转化

• 批准号: 1946732
• 负责人: Barbara Allen
• 金额: $ 1.22万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1946732&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DDIRG; Boundary; walkers; Insights; into

Coping with environmental challenges requires recognizing and harnessing multiple forms of expertise to effectively manage environmental change. This dissertation project investigates the potential contributions of combining indigenous environmental knowledge with western science to better understanding and manage rapid environmental change. It combines archival data and data from in-depth interviews with Indigenous scientists who have strong cultural ties to their natal communities to explore the ways that these different perspectives can be hybridized and aligned to enable their combined use in environmental policy making. This project supports graduate student training, the inclusion of Native Americans in STEM fields, and find ways to use Indigenous knowledge to help ameliorate pressing environmental problems.This project advances research within science and technology studies on hybrid forms of knowledge, scientific collaboration, and the science of policy making. It also advances efforts to promote environmental sustainability. The term “Boundary Walkers’ is used to describe natural scientists who are Indigenous and who have access to indigenous forms of environmental knowledge. Investigators seek to understand how Western and Indigenous knowledge systems can work together to confront problems arising from rapid environmental change, how boundary-walkers navigate across this divide, and how this knowledge can be put to practical use in environmental policy making. Data come from archives at universities, museums, and tribal libraries and associations, and from in-depth interviews with 30 boundary walkers. Overall, this original research provides pathways forward for integrating diverse forms of knowledge for practical good.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

应对环境挑战需要认识和利用多种形式的专门知识，以有效地管理环境变化。本学位论文研究了本土环境知识与西方科学相结合的潜在贡献，以更好地理解和管理快速的环境变化。它结合了档案数据和与土著科学家深入访谈的数据，这些科学家与他们的纳塔尔社区有很强的文化联系，以探索这些不同观点可以混合和调整的方式，使其在环境政策制定中的综合利用。该项目支持研究生培训，将美国原住民纳入STEM领域，并找到利用原住民知识帮助改善紧迫环境问题的方法。该项目推进了科学技术研究中关于知识混合形式、科学合作和政策制定科学的研究。它还推动促进环境可持续性的努力。“边界行走者”一词用于描述土著自然科学家，他们可以获得土著形式的环境知识。研究人员试图了解西方和土著知识体系如何共同应对快速环境变化带来的问题，边界步行者如何跨越这一鸿沟，以及这些知识如何在环境政策制定中得到实际应用。数据来自大学、博物馆、部落图书馆和协会的档案，以及对30名边界步行者的深入采访。总的来说，这项原创性研究为整合各种形式的知识以实现实际利益提供了途径。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。