When the Caribou Do Not Come: Indigenous Knowledge and Adaptive Management in the Western Arctic. Edited by Brenda L. Parlee and Ken J. Caine

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 556-557
Author(s):  
Ian J Jesse
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Western Arctic

scholarly journals Mobilizing Indigenous Knowledge through the Caribou Hunter Success Working Group

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 423
Author(s):  
Hannah Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Working Group ◽  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Rules Of Thumb ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Western Arctic

The caribou stewardship practices of the Iñupiat have persisted through cycles of abundance and decline for the Western Arctic Caribou Herd (WACH). This research seeks to address the challenges and opportunities faced when mobilizing Indigenous Knowledge in the National Park Service (NPS) management of the herd. Motivated by Indigenous stewardship concerns, NPS staff facilitate and participate in an informal working group focused on caribou hunter success. Using Indigenous Knowledge methods, this study examined the outcomes of the working group and the use of “rules of thumb” to identify and share stewardship practices. In the two cases, the Caribou Hunter Success Working Group created space for subsistence hunters to develop educational materials based on Indigenous Knowledge to address specific hunter success issues. Subsistence users participate in the federal subsistence programs and related subsistence forums, and it is the work of the NPS to mobilize the knowledge they contribute to improve subsistence management for both the users and the resource. There are two additional benefits for the NPS: (1) a better understanding of the use of the resource, and (2) when regulations are informed by Indigenous Knowledge, there is a greater likelihood of adherence. The mobilization of Indigenous Knowledge leads to more effective management.

scholarly journals From the other side of the knowledge frontier: Indigenous knowledge, social–ecological relationships and new perspectives

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron Muir ◽  
Deborah Rose ◽  
Phillip Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Ecological Resilience ◽  
Ecological Relationships ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Natural Resource Managers

A river is like a mirror: it reflects the care given by people whose lives depend upon it. A scald on red ground or the slow death of a river reveals more than troubled ecological relationships – they are signs of broken social relationships. How people take care of social relationships and how they take care of ecological relationships are the same question. In this paper we emphasise the importance that Aboriginal people place on social relationships for good ecological relationships. In the past few decades natural resource managers have sought Indigenous knowledge relevant to Western ideas of environment, and in doing so, created distinctions between ‘ecological’ and ‘social’ knowledge – this is an artificial ‘white-fella’ separation. Additionally, Indigenous knowledge has been treated as if it were a static archive that need only be extracted and applied to resource development and planning. Instead it is dynamic, adaptive and contextual. As a consequence of compartmentalisation and the assumption of timelessness, the importance of social relationships in ecological relationships has been overlooked. Some research has explored similarities between Indigenous knowledge and the Western concept of adaptive management, and raised the possibility of synergy between them. We agree there are possible connections and opportunities for exchange and further learning between Indigenous knowledge and ecological resilience and adaptive management. However, Indigenous knowledge and Western science belong to different world views. An important task is to explore ways of grappling with this ontological challenge. We suggest a conceptual turn around that we believe could assist in opening a dialogue as well as creating a set of foundational principles for robust ecological and social relationships.

Indigenous knowledge of traditionally used plants from Iran for fever/malaria treatment

Planta Medica ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 76 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
S Esmaeili ◽  
F Naghibi ◽  
M Mosaddegh
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Malaria Treatment

Colonizing Innovation:

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhinav CHATURVEDI ◽  
Alf REHN
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Frugal Innovation ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge Systems ◽  
Management Literature

Innovation is one of the most popular concepts and desired phenomena of contemporary Western capitalism. As such, there is a perennial drive to capture said phenomena, and particularly to find new ways to incite and drive the same. In this text, we analyze one specific tactic through which this is done, namely by the culturally colonial appropriation of indigenous knowledge systems. By looking to how jugaad, a system   of   frugal   innovation   in   India,   has been   made   into   fodder   for   Western management literature, we argue for the need of a more developed innovation critique, e.g., by looking to postcolonial theory.

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