Knowledge co-production for Indigenous adaptation pathways: Transform post-colonial articulation complexes to empower local decision-making

Hill, Rosemary; Walsh, Fiona; Davies, Jocelyn; Sparrow, Ashley D.; Mooney, Meg; Wise, Russell M.; Tengö, Maria

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102161

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“…Fourth, its inclusion of diverse knowledge systems allows for epistemologies, or ways of knowing, to be (re)asserted or challenged through attempts to grasp how others view the world, yielding the potential to shift power relations and overcome conflicts between different value positions and worldviews (van der Hel 2016). Fifth, the processes of bridging cultural/epistemological differences force partners to openly confront histories of colonization, reflect on their positions as researchers, and develop decolonising methods to redress those histories in pursuit of Indigenous data sovereignty, ownership, and intellectual property rights (CTKW 2014;Hill et al 2020b;Maclean et al 2021;Zurba et al 2019). Mutually beneficial knowledge co-production, therefore, hinges on participants recognizing and accounting for perceived divides, complementarities, and power asymmetries between different types of knowledge.…”

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“…However, the lack of shared understanding may impede actor's abilities to recognize other's perspectives and knowledge (McCarney 2018), reinforcing the challenge of achieving a common goal with multiple partners in a transdisciplinary context (Harris and Lyon 2014). Shared understanding, therefore, sets a baseline for iterative and interactive reflection on the purpose and progress of knowledge co-production as a whole, including whether it empowers those who are disproportionately affected by power imbalances (e.g., Hill et al 2020b;Vincent et al 2020).…”

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Learning from knowledge co-production research and practice in the twenty-first century: global lessons and what they mean for collaborative research in Nunatsiavut

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An increasing need for novel approaches to knowledge co-production that effectively and equitably address sustainability challenges has arisen in the twenty-first century. Calls for more representative and contextual co-production strategies have come from indigenous communities, scientific research forums, and global environmental governance networks. Despite calls to action, there are no systematic reviews that derive lessons from knowledge co-production scholarship to interpret their significance through the lens of a specific sociopolitical and cultural context. We conducted a systematic review of peer-reviewed and grey literature on knowledge co-production published from 2000 to 2020. Using a hybrid inductive and deductive thematic analysis, we identified two conceptual themes—guiding principles and approaches—to structure the synthesis and interpretation of 102 studies. We found that knowledge co-production studies often converged on four interrelated principles: recognition of contextual diversity bounding knowledge co-production, preemptive and intentional engagement with indigenous knowledge holders, formation of shared understanding of the purpose of knowledge co-production, and empowerment of knowledge holders throughout the co-production cycle. These principles manifested in multiple approaches for interpreting, bridging, applying, and distributing power amongst diverse knowledge systems rooted in different epistemologies. We filter these findings through the social–ecological context that frames an ongoing knowledge co-production project with Inuit communities in Nunatsiavut, Canada: the Sustainable Nunatsiavut Futures Project. Our review suggests that emerging forms of knowledge co-production principles and approaches yield immense potential in diverse contexts. Yet in many regions, including Nunatsiavut, principles alone may not be enough to account for systemic and contextualized issues (e.g., colonization and data sovereignty) that can present roadblocks to equitable sustainability science in the twenty-first century if left unaddressed.

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Learning from knowledge co-production research and practice in the twenty-first century: global lessons and what they mean for collaborative research in Nunatsiavut

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“…Knowledge co-production can improve Indigenous peoples' adaptive management of these traditional territories and thereby deliver environmental, cultural, social and economic outcomes (Ens et al 2016;Jarvis et al 2018;Zurba et al 2019;McKemey et al 2020). Nevertheless, weaving Indigenous and scientific knowledge encounters many challenges: the mis-match between text-based formats of science and the ritual, ceremonial, song, symbolic and visual manifestations of Indigenous knowledge; the lack of adequate protection for Indigenous intellectual and cultural rights; the relative scarcity of cross-cultural tools for knowledge coproduction that account for epistemological and ontological differences; and the ongoing impacts of colonial histories on institutions for local learning and decision-making (Zurba et al 2019;Hill et al 2020). This paper investigates the conditions under which knowledge co-production can foster impacts that improve Indigenous adaptive environmental planning and management among remote land-attached Indigenous peoples, based on a case study with ten Traditional Owner 2 groups in the Martuwarra (Fitzroy River) basin of Western Australia, hereafter 'Fitzroy catchment' (Douglas et al 2019).…”

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“…Influence mapping, for example, supports Indigenous participants to make drawings of social networks and thereby reveal how groups mobilise power in multi-level governance systems, and use this knowledge to jointly design strategies that advance Indigenous goals (Schiffer and Hauck 2010;Hauck et al 2015). Spatial mapping approaches to support Indigenous goals include: land-use and occupancy mapping (Tobias 2000); cross-cultural mapping marine environments (Davies et al 2020); constructing 3-dimensional (3D) maps of landscapes (Rambaldi et al 2007;Banaynal and Dwamena 2011); and using augmented 3D-printed landscapes with projected spatial data (Fisher et al 2019). Nevertheless, Indigenous people argue that knowledge co-production activities need to recognise their roles as self-determining nations with rights and the responsibility to lead application of their knowledge systems in environmental decision-making (Latulippe and Klenk 2020).…”

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Learning Together for and with the Martuwarra Fitzroy River

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Co-production across scientific and Indigenous knowledge systems has become a cornerstone of research to enhance knowledge, practice, ethics, and foster sustainability transformations. However, the profound differences in world views and the complex and contested histories of nation-state colonisation on Indigenous territories, highlight both opportunities and risks for Indigenous people when engaging with knowledge co-production. This paper investigates the conditions under which knowledge co-production can lead to improved Indigenous adaptive environmental planning and management among remote land-attached Indigenous peoples through a case study with ten Traditional Owner groups in the Martuwarra (Fitzroy River) Catchment in Western Australia’s Kimberley region. The research team built a 3D map of the river and used it, together with an interactive table-top projector, to bring together both scientific and Indigenous spatial knowledge. Participatory influence mapping, aligned with Traditional Owner priorities to achieve cultural governance and management planning goals set out in the Fitzroy River Declaration, investigated power relations. An analytical framework, examining underlying mechanisms of social learning, knowledge promotion and enhancing influence, based on different theories of change, was applied to unpack the immediate outcomes from these activities. The analysis identified that knowledge co-production activities improved the accessibility of the knowledge, the experiences of the knowledge users, strengthened collective identity and partnerships, and strengthened Indigenous-led institutions. The focus on cultural governance and management planning goals in the Fitzroy River Declaration enabled the activities to directly affect key drivers of Indigenous adaptive environmental planning and management—the Indigenous-led institutions. The nation-state arrangements also gave some support to local learning and decision-making through a key Indigenous institution, Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council. Knowledge co-production with remote land-attached Indigenous peoples can improve adaptive environmental planning and management where it fosters learning together, is grounded in the Indigenous-led institutions and addresses their priorities.

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“…Extending the basic architecture of the global parallel scenarios developed by the climate change research community to the local level also continues the trend in adaptation research, of researchers working with stakeholders-including communities and regions, policymakers and practitionersto co-produce knowledge (Bremer and Meisch, 2017). Coproduction processes seek to better understand local conditions, assess current and anticipated impacts and implications, and explore adaptation options (Ford et al, 2014;Boon et al, 2019;Cradock-Henry et al, 2020;Hill et al, 2020;Cradock-Henry, 2021). These local-parallel scenarios typically combine elements of top-down and bottom-up data derived from probabilistic or econometric models, or through interviews and other participatory methods, respectively.…”

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Advancing Relevance, Credibility, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness as a Heuristic for Local-Parallel Scenarios

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The parallel scenario process provides a framework for developing plausible scenarios of future conditions. Combining greenhouse gas emissions, social and economic trends, and policy responses, it enables researchers and policy makers to consider global-scale interactions, impacts and implications of climate change. Increasingly, researchers are developing extended scenarios, based on this framework, and incorporating them into adaptation planning and decision-making processes at the local level. To enable the identification of possible impacts and assess vulnerability, these local-parallel scenarios must successfully accommodate diverse knowledge systems, multiple values, and competing priorities including both “top down” modeling and “bottom-up” participatory processes. They must link across scales, to account for the ways in which global changes affect and influence decision-making in local places. Due to the growing use of scenarios, there is value in assessing these developments using criteria or, more specifically, heuristics that may be implicitly acknowledged rather than formally monitored and evaluated. In this Perspective, we reflect on various contributions regarding the value of heuristics and propose the adoption of current definitions for Relevance, Credibility, and Legitimacy for guiding local scenario development as the most useful as well as using Effectiveness for evaluation purposes. We summarize the internal trade-offs (personal time, clarity-complexity, speed-quality, push-pull) and the external stressors (equity and the role of science in society) that influence the extent to which heuristics are used as “rules of thumb,” rather than formal assessment. These heuristics may help refine the process of extending the parallel scenario framework to the local and enable cross-case comparisons.

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Knowledge co-production for Indigenous adaptation pathways: Transform post-colonial articulation complexes to empower local decision-making

Cited by 75 publications

References 38 publications

Learning from knowledge co-production research and practice in the twenty-first century: global lessons and what they mean for collaborative research in Nunatsiavut

Learning from knowledge co-production research and practice in the twenty-first century: global lessons and what they mean for collaborative research in Nunatsiavut

Learning Together for and with the Martuwarra Fitzroy River

Advancing Relevance, Credibility, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness as a Heuristic for Local-Parallel Scenarios

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