Resilience through Knowledge Co-Production: Indigenous Knowledge, Science, and Global Environmental Change

312 Pages·2022·24.091 MB·English

by  Marie Roué, Douglas Nakashima Igor Krupnik

RESILIENCE THROUGH KNOWLEDGE
CO-PRODUCTION
Confronted with the complex environmental crises of the Anthropocene, scientists have
turned to interdisciplinarity to grapple with challenges that are at once social and eco-
logical. Indigenous knowledge holders have contributed critical observations and under-
standings and, in doing so, have gained global recognition. Most recently, several arenas
are calling for the co-production of new knowledge by bringing together Indigenous
knowledge and science. This new call to arms is rapidly gaining momentum, but little
guidance hasbeen offered onhow co-production can beachieved.
Thisbookrevisitsepistemologicaldebatesonthenotionofco-production,andassesses
methods, principles and values that have allowed “communities of practice” involving
Indigenous experts and scientists to jointly co-produce knowledge. This challenging
undertaking calls into question many of our assumptions about the breadth and limits of
knowledge,bothIndigenousandscientific,abouttheinteractionsbetweenenvironmentand
society. In view of their distinct ontologies and epistemologies, their synergies but also
incompatibilities, as well as persistent asymmetries of power, what are the determining
factors for achieving an Indigenous-scientific knowledge co-production rooted in equity,
mutualrespectand shared benefits?
Resilience through Knowledge Co-Production includes several collective papers co-
authored by Indigenous knowledge holders and scientists, with case studies involving
Indigenous communities from the Arctic, Pacific islands, the Amazon, the Sahel and
high-altitude zones. This book offers guidance to Indigenous peoples, scientists,
decision-makers and NGOs on how to move toward a decolonized co-production of
knowledge that brings together Indigenous knowledge and science.
marieroue´ isEmeritaDirectorofResearchattheNationalCentreforScientificResearch
and the National Museum of Natural History in France. From 1995 to 2000, she was
DirectoroftheApsonat(AppropriationandSocializationofNature)researchteam.Shehas
published several books as well as numerous papers and book chapters about Indigenous
peoples in the Arctic and Subarctic, and edited special journal issues on biodiversity and
culturaldiversity,ecologicalutopia,human–animalrelationships,andNGOs&Indigenous
knowledge.HerfieldresearchfocusesonIndigenousknowledgeandglobalchangeamong
theSámi(Norway and Sweden), Cree FirstNations andInuit (Canada) and rural commu-
nities in the Cevennes (France). She served as a member of the Multidisciplinary Expert
Panel (MEP) and Indigenous and Local Knowledge Task Force of the Intergovernmental
Platform on Biodiversityand Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
douglas nakashima has been working in the field of Indigenous knowledge for over
thirty-fiveyears,withhisinitialresearchfocusingonInuitandCreeFirstNationsinArctic
andsubarcticCanada.HerecentlyretiredfromUNESCO,whereheworkedintheNatural
SciencesSectorfrom1996to2018.In2002,hefoundedUNESCO’sglobalprogrammeon
Local and IndigenousKnowledgeSystems (LINKS) that addresses therole ofIndigenous
knowledge in environmental management, including in response to climate change and
biodiversity loss. Dr Nakashima led UNESCO’s work with the IPCC to highlight the
importance of Indigenous knowledge for climate change assessment and adaptation,
including publication of the compendium Weathering Uncertainty: Traditional
Knowledgefor Climate Change Assessment andAdaptation.
igor krupnik is Curator of the Arctic Ethnology collections at the National Museum of
NaturalHistory,SmithsonianInstitutioninWashington,DC.Trainedasaculturalanthro-
pologistandecologist,DrKrupnikhasworkedamongtheYupik,Chukchi,Aleut,Nenets
and Inupiaq peoples, primarily in Alaska and the Russian Arctic region. His area of
expertise lies in modern cultures, Indigenous ecological knowledge, and the impact of
modern environmental and social change on human life in the North. He has published
more than twenty books, catalogues, and edited collections, including several “source-
books” on Indigenous ecological and historical knowledge produced jointly with local
partners for communityuse.
RESILIENCE THROUGH KNOWLEDGE
CO-PRODUCTION
Indigenous Knowledge, Science and Global
Environmental Change
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MARIE ROUÉ
NationalCentreforScientificResearch(CNRS)
DOUGLAS NAKASHIMA
UNESCO
IGOR KRUPNIK
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Contents
List of Contributors page ix
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction
1 Co-production between Indigenous Knowledge and Science:
Introducing a Decolonized Approach 3
marie roue´ and douglas nakashima
Part I From Practice to Principles: Methods and Challenges
for Decolonized Knowledge Co-production (DKC)
2 The Progression from Collaboration to Co-production: Case Studies
from Alaska 27
henry p. huntington, george noongwook, anne k. salomon
and nick m. tanape, sr.
3 Learning about Sea Ice from the Kifikmiut: A Decade of Ice Seasons
at Wales, Alaska, 2006-2016 43
hajo eicken, igor krupnik, winton weyapuk, jr. and matthew
l. druckenmiller
4 Shaping the Long View: Iñupiat Experts and Scientists Share Ocean
Knowledge on Alaska’s North Slope 67
matthew l. druckenmiller
5 IndigenousIceDictionaries:SharingKnowledgeforaChangingWorld 93
igor krupnik
v
vi Contents
6 Mapping Land Use with Sámi Reindeer Herders: Co-production
in an Era of Climate Change 117
marie roue´, lars-evert nutti, nils-johan utsi
and samuel roturier
7 Sámi Herders’ Knowledge and Forestry: Ecological Restoration
of Reindeer Lichen Pastures in Northern Sweden 143
samuel roturier, lars-evert nutti and hans winsa
Part II Indigenous Perspectives on Environmental Change
8 The Climate Agreements: What We Have Achieved and the Gaps
That Remain 165
hindou oumarou ibrahim
9 Reinforcing Traditional Knowledge in the City: Canoe Building and
Navigation in the Changing Pacific 175
tikoidelaimakotu tuimoce fuluna
10 Reindeer Herding in a Time of Growing Adversity 188
anders henriksen bongo
11 Herders and Drought in the Sahel of Burkina Faso: Traditional
Knowledge and Resilience 195
hanafi amirou dicko
Part III Global Change and Indigenous Responses
12 Competing Paradigms of Himalayan Climate Change and
Adaptations: Indigenous Knowledge versus Economics 205
jan salick
13 Coping with a Warming Winter Climate in Arctic Russia: Patterns
of Extreme Weather Affecting Nenets Reindeer Nomadism 217
bruce c. forbes, timo kumpula, nina meschtyb,
roza laptander, marc macias-fauria, pentti zetterberg,
mariana verdonen, anna skarin, kwang-yul kim,
linette n. boisvert, julienne c. stroeve and annett bartsch
Contents vii
14 Rising Above the Flood: Modifications in Agricultural Practices
and Livelihood Systems in Central Amazonia – Perspectives from
Ribeirinho and Indigenous Communities 233
angela may steward, rafael barbi costa e santos,
camille rognant, fernanda maria de freitas viana,
julia vieira da cunha a´vila, jessica poliane gomes dos santos,
jacson rodrigues and samis vieira
15 Indigenous Storytelling and Climate Change Adaptation 247
a´lvaro ferna´ndez-llamazares and mar cabeza
16 Indigenous Knowledge and the Coloniality of Reality:
Climate Change Otherwise in the Bolivian Andes 261
anders burman
Epilogue
17 Negotiating Co-production: Climbing the Learning Curve 277
igor krupnik
Index 287
Colour Plates section to be found between pp. 142 and 143

Contributors
Julia Vieira da Cunha Ávila, Research Group in Archaeology and Amazonian
Cultural Heritage, Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development, Tefé, Brazil;
and Graduate Studies Programme in Botany, National Institute for Amazonian
Research, Manaus, Brazil.
Annett Bartsch, b.geos, Korneuburg, Austria; and Austrian Polar Research
Institute, Vienna, Austria.
Linette N. Boisvert, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of
Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
AndersHenriksen Bongois a Sámireindeerherder from northern Norway. After
enduringthevicissitudesofherdingforseveraldecades,andconfrontedwithhealth
problems, he finally took the decision to stop herding and settle permanently in
Kautokeino, the main winter village of the herding community. He went on to
work for the reindeer-herding administration before becoming the head of a
companyfabricatingtentsinspiredbythetraditionalSámidesign.Highlyreputed
as a herder, he never ceased to observe, analyse and monitor the evolution of
reindeer herding and its challenges. Today, at eighty-two years of age, he
providesobservationsandreflectionsonthechanges hehasobservedthroughout
the course of his life.
Anders Burman received his PhD in social anthropology from the University of
Gothenburg in 2009. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Ethnic
StudiesattheUniversityofCalifornia–Berkeleyandiscurrentlyaseniorlecturerat
theHuman EcologyDivision at LundUniversity. Hehas publishedonIndigenous
peoples and movements, activism, cosmology, gender politics, political ontology,
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x List of Contributors
decolonization and knowledge production, in the fields of political ecology and
environmental anthropology, with a geographical focus on the Andes, Bolivia and
Latin America. Currently engaged in a research project focusing on how climate
change is perceived and explained differently by different actors from different
ontological life worlds in Latin America, he focuses on the contradictions arising
fromtheencounterbetweenhegemonicnotionsof“nature,”“climate,”Indigenous
knowledge, the Andean landscape and the cosmos.
Mar Cabeza is a lecturer in conservation science at the Faculty of Biological and
Environmental Sciences of the University of Helsinki (Finland) and the Principal
Investigator of the Global Change and Conservation lab. Her most significant
research has focused on addressing climate change impacts on biodiversity and
their contribution to paradigm shifts in conservation approaches. She currently
works on a broad range of research topics related to conservation planning and
assessments, offering an integrated socioecological approach to conservation
issues.
Hanafi Amirou Dicko, a traditional herder from Burkina Faso, is the president of
the Association of Traditional Breeders of Sahel (Association des Eleveurs
Traditionnels du Sahel, or Dawla Sahel). This association is involved in the
protection of traditional breeders’ rights within national development policies and
inthestrengtheningofSahelbreeders’resilienceinthefaceofclimate change.He
has collaborated with international teams, including the Meteorology General
Direction of Burkina Faso, in the context of pluridisciplinary research on com-
munication of seasonal rainfall forecasts with farmers and agro-pastoralists.
El Hadji Dicko is a member of the executive committee of IPACC (Indigenous
Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee), which is a network of 135 associ-
ationsofIndigenouspeoplesintwenty-oneAfricancountries.Aretiredtechnical
agent from the Ministry of Animal Resources of Burkina Faso, he is also a
representative of the Federation of Burkina Breeders of Sahel (Fédération des
Eleveurs du Burkina).
MatthewL.DruckenmillerisaresearchscientistwiththeNationalSnowandIce
DataCenter(NSIDC)attheUniversityofColorado–Boulder.Since2006,Matthew
has worked within the coastal regions of Arctic Alaska, investigating the connec-
tions between changing sea ice conditions and marine mammal habitat, and local
Indigenouscommunityuseofseaiceforhuntingandtravel.Asof2021,heserves
as Director of the Navigating the New Arctic Community Office (NNA-CO) and
co-leads the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic
(ELOKA). Matthew also serves as the lead US delegate to the International