Conference: Collaborative Research on Risk, Energy Development, and Environmental Sustainability in the Navajo Nation

这是一项会议提案，将召集研究纳瓦霍民族环境、气候和经济问题的学者，举行为期两天的会议，研究民族志、历史、空间、水文地质和土著研究方法如何提高我们对可持续能源开采背景下产生的脆弱性和风险的理解。通过与部落学院的学者进行专业合作，该研讨会为在科学领域历史上代表性不足的群体提供了一个科学合作和能力建设的平台。通过这次讲习班将产生的研究合作有可能成为其他土著民族建立研究能力和发展的典范。讲习班将促进发展更有效的方法和途径，传播人类学研究结果，以促进公众对科学和科学进程的了解。该项目还有助于培养研究生在科学基础和经验数据收集方法方面的能力。讲习班的目标是制定一项研究议程，以促进对采掘环境的了解，其中环境风险和地方治理问题受到威胁。拟议的活动推进了对行为科学的新理解，有可能改变我们在能源和环境危机时期理解技术和文化变革的方式。研讨会的参与者将在纳瓦霍族的亚利桑那州Tsaile的din<s:1>学院会面，分享研究兴趣并讨论din<s:1>政治生态学和资源地理学方面的工作。研讨会的目标是开发一个长期的合作项目。该项目将推动环境风险、采掘业和能源转型领域的人类学研究。研讨会旨在建立本土政治生态学术网络，将技术和文化变革与能源转型之间的关系理论化。研究结果将提高对21世纪土著环境治理的物质和经济条件的理论认识，并为未来的比较研究奠定基础，以理解其他采掘背景，特别是美国土著民族（如克罗族、霍皮族、MHA族、北夏延族）如何理论化和实施经济和能源转型战略。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

This is a conference proposal that would convene scholars working on issues of environment, climate, and economy in the Navajo Nation, for a two-day conference to examine how methods in ethnographic, historical, spatial, hydro-geological, and indigenous research can improve our understandings of vulnerability and risk produced in contexts of sustained energy extraction. The workshop provides a platform for scientific collaboration and capacity building among a group historically underrepresented in science, through professional collaboration with scholars at a tribal college. The research collaborative that will emerge through this workshop has the potential to become a model for other Native Nations to build research capacity and development. The workshop will facilitate the development of more effective methodologies and avenues for the dissemination of findings from anthropological research to promote public understanding of science and the scientific process. The project also contributes to the training of graduate students in methods of scientifically-grounded and empirical data collection. The objective of the workshop is to develop a research agenda to advance knowledge of extractive contexts in which questions of environmental risk and local governance are at stake. The proposed activity advances new understandings of behavioral sciences with the potential to transform the way we understand technological and cultural change in times of energy and environmental crisis. Workshop participants will meet at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona, in Navajo Nation to share research interests and discuss work in Diné political ecology and resource geographies. The objective of the workshop is to develop a long-term collaborative project. The project would advance anthropological science in the areas of environmental risk, extractive industry, and energy transitions. The workshop aims to build networks of indigenous political ecological scholarship in theorizing the relationship between technological and cultural change, and energy transitions. Results will improve theoretical understanding of the material and economic conditions of indigenous environmental governance in the 21st century and establish a basis for future comparative research in understanding how other extractive contexts, particularly within Native Nations in the United States (e.g., Crow, Hopi, MHA Nation, Northern Cheyenne) might theorize and implement strategies for economic and energy transitions.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.