Are Glaciers ‘Good to Think With’? Recognising Indigenous Environmental Knowledge<sup>1</sup>

Cruikshank, Julie

doi:10.1080/00664677.2012.707972

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“…It should be recognized, too, that traditional indigenous knowledge is an integral component of site management and interpretation [23,41]. This cultural element can introduce new stories that engage visitors, enrich their experiences and enhance understanding of contemporary environmental issues [192]. For example, indigenous people attribute different cultural values and animate meanings to glaciers compared with Western values that emphasize landscape aesthetics, wilderness, natural hazards, sublime scenery, mountaineering and tourism [104][105][106][107].…”

Section: Enhancing the Visitor Experiencementioning

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Geoheritage, Geotourism and the Cultural Landscape: Enhancing the Visitor Experience and Promoting Geoconservation

2018

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Geotourism spans a range of visitor interests, from the specialist geotourist to the more general visitor. As well as supporting geoconservation outcomes, it provides economic, cultural, relational and social benefits for both visitors and host communities. The interconnections between geoheritage and the cultural components of the landscape have antecedents in concepts of landscape aesthetics in different cultures. These interconnections provide a range of opportunities for enhancing the geotourist experience and promoting geoconservation and geoeducation by means of activities that involve aesthetic and emotional experiences and interpretation through different cultural filters that encourage the rediscovery of a sense of wonder both about the geological stories in the landscape and the human interactions. A cultural ecosystem services framework provides a holistic approach for informing conservation policy, management and planning for geotourism, enabling assessment of multiple benefits and trade-offs for visitors and communities based on the values of the geoheritage assets. Geotourism studies could also benefit from integration of existing theory, conceptual analysis and practice from broader heritage and nature-based tourism and closer collaboration with relevant social sciences. Adhering to sound geoethical practice is an essential part of geotourism, which can also play a role in the promotion of geoethics among the public and professionals.3 of 25 cultural elements of the landscape (e.g., as features celebrated in art, sculpture, music, poetry and literature or that are revered as sacred places), or may provide the essential context in which cultural features (e.g., settlements, castles and archaeological sites) are located. Geology and geomorphology are also a fundamental part of the distinctive character of many rural landscapes and the built environment and contribute to the aesthetic qualities of these landscapes. As described below, there are many connections between geoheritage and cultural heritage that provide a basis for geotourism activities. The value of these connections is now acknowledged within the UNESCO Global Geoparks framework [9]. Likewise, many cultural World Heritage Sites benefit from strong supporting geoheritage interests [38], while many existing natural properties are also cultural landscapes that have potential for re-inscription as mixed properties, recognizing their cultural and spiritual associations as well as their outstanding geoheritage features, as happened in the case of Tongariro National Park (New Zealand) (1992) and Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (Australia) (1994) [39].The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO defined cultural landscapes as representing the "combined works of nature and of man" and "illustrative of the evolution of human society and settlement over time, under the influence of the physical constraints and/or opportunities presented by their natural environment and of successive social, economic and cultural forces, both external and internal" [40] (p...

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Section: Enhancing the Visitor Experiencementioning

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Geoheritage, Geotourism and the Cultural Landscape: Enhancing the Visitor Experience and Promoting Geoconservation

2018

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“…Relational thinkers have been influential in treating environmental controversies as indicators of systemic ambiguities and stresses in established regulatory, governance, and management frameworks (Cruikshank, ; Hui & Walker, ; Jackson, ; Leach & Davis, ; Wright, ). Colliding conditions of snail existence and the permissive institutional fabric supporting coal mining provide a remarkable view of discovery of the limits that are met when legislation is contradictory.…”

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Snail assemblages: interrogating an environmental controversy involvingPowelliphanta augustaand the mining industry inAotearoaNewZealand

Heron

2019

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In 2004, a controversy arose in Aotearoa New Zealand's coal mining sector that involved Powelliphanta augusta, a species of land snail. This paper considers that controversy in terms of emergent assemblages involving the snail, the mining industry, the Department of Conservation, political action by environmental non‐government organisations, and public expressions of environmental and other values. Three sets of relations embedded in those assemblages are examined—those related to positioning and organising nature; values, politics, and power relations; and human and non‐human materialities. Those relations illuminate how a protracted controversy and its objects form a “social test bed” for contested views in legislation and guidelines dealing with economy, conservation, and restoration. To assess the dynamics, complexities, and contingencies of such relations, attention is paid to the controversy's detailed time line and legal framing, as well as to ontological shifts of snail and habitat and snail metrics. This analytical focus highlights the shifting quality of ideas about how the snail and its habitat are understood as entangled in fraught and mutating strategies of translocation that are played out in a particular regulatory setting. It also provides insights into international geographical efforts to re‐shape environmental governance and management.

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“…sea-ice change) (Nichols et al 2004;Gearheard et al 2011), setting quotas for wildlife catch Dale and Armitage 2011), or modeling changing environments (Giordano et al 2010). Alternatively, processes can be 'soft' and exploratory, grounding participants in local context and epistemology through, for example, anthropological inquiry that includes storytelling (Brody 2001;Cruikshank 2005Cruikshank , 2012, artistic processes (Kunuk and Mauro 2010;Petheram et al 2011;Zurba and Berkes 2014), role-play (Castella 2009) and participating in local cultural events (Castleden et al 2012).…”

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“…For example, indigenous people can be versed in the scientific method and participate in scientific knowledge development (Weiss et al 2013). Yet, there are real distinctions in how holders of scientific and indigenous knowledge see the world (Brody 2001;Cruikshank 2012). Neglecting to acknowledge the similarities and differences among types of knowledge and how they each make sense of, and contribute to governance of, changing environmental commons can perpetuate power asymmetries (Wilson 2008).…”

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Bridging knowledge systems to enhance governance of environmental commons: A typology of settings

2015

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Abstract:We offer a typology of settings to bridge scientific and indigenous knowledge systems and to enhance governance of the environmental commons in contexts of change. We contribute to a need for further clarity on how to incorporate diverse knowledge systems and in ways that contribute to planning, management, monitoring and assessment from local to global levels. We ask, what settings are discussed in the resource and environmental governance literature to support efforts to bridge indigenous and scientific knowledge systems? The objectives are: 1) to offer a typology that organizes various settings to bridge knowledge systems; and 2) to elaborate on how these settings function independently and in concert, using examples from a diverse literature in addition to field research experience. Our focus is on indigenous and scientific knowledge, but the typology offers lessons to bridge diverse knowledge systems more generally, and in ways that are sensitive to a moral, political and process-based approach. The typology includes specific methods and processes, brokering strategies, governance and institutional contexts, and the arena of epistemology. We describe each setting in the typology, and provide examples to reflect on the function and potential outcomes of different settings. Insights from our synthesis can inform policy and participatory action. 852Kaitlyn Joanne Rathwell et al. Keywords:Arctic, Environmental governance, indigenous knowledge, knowledge systems, multi-level governance, traditional knowledge Acknowledgements: We would like to thank three anonymous reviewers for helpful feedback on an earlier version of this manuscript. Rathwell

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Are Glaciers ‘Good to Think With’? Recognising Indigenous Environmental Knowledge¹

Cited by 76 publications

References 9 publications

Geoheritage, Geotourism and the Cultural Landscape: Enhancing the Visitor Experience and Promoting Geoconservation

Geoheritage, Geotourism and the Cultural Landscape: Enhancing the Visitor Experience and Promoting Geoconservation

Snail assemblages: interrogating an environmental controversy involvingPowelliphanta augustaand the mining industry inAotearoaNewZealand

Bridging knowledge systems to enhance governance of environmental commons: A typology of settings

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Are Glaciers ‘Good to Think With’? Recognising Indigenous Environmental Knowledge1

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Geoheritage, Geotourism and the Cultural Landscape: Enhancing the Visitor Experience and Promoting Geoconservation

Geoheritage, Geotourism and the Cultural Landscape: Enhancing the Visitor Experience and Promoting Geoconservation

Snail assemblages: interrogating an environmental controversy involvingPowelliphanta augustaand the mining industry inAotearoaNewZealand

Bridging knowledge systems to enhance governance of environmental commons: A typology of settings

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