“Seeing Water Like a State?”: Indigenous water governance through Yukon First Nation Self-Government Agreements

Wilson, Nicole J.

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.05.003

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“…Strang's work on the meaning of water is a deep dive into water's social, cultural, and experiential meaning beyond its material nature (Strang, 2004 ). We see, for example, specific kinds of water as medicine according to tribal members who recognize the spiritual nature of water (Wilson et al , 2019 ). In addition to exploring the meanings of water, scholars hold that water as a material object cannot be divorced from the social context as water and culture are co-constructed, that is, water and society are so interrelated that the environment influences culture, which in turn influences the environment.…”

Section: Anthropological Contributions To Global Washmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Approaches: Anthropological Contributions and Future Directions for Engineering

Workman

Cairns

Reyes

et al. 2021

Environmental Engineering Science

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Anthropologists contribute key insights toward a comprehensive understanding of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) as a multidimensional, multiscalar, and culturally embedded phenomenon. Yet, these insights have yet to be sufficiently operationalized and implemented in WASH development and wider WASH accessrelated paradigms. Ensuring WASH security requires a comprehensive approach to identifying both human health risk and environmental impact of WASH-related programs and strategies. It requires an understanding of how sanitation is integrated into households and communities and how individuals within particular cultural contexts practice sanitation and hygiene. This work facilitates that goal by outlining the major contributions of anthropology and allied social sciences to WASH, as well as outlining key considerations for future work and collaboration. We identify six major themes that, if applied in future engineering approaches, will more equitably integrate stakeholders and multiple vantage points in the successful implementation of WASH projects for marginalized and diverse groups. These include a critical understanding of previous approaches, culturally aware interventions, capacity building that considers (un)intended impact, co-created technology, collaboration between fields such as anthropology and engineering, and challenge-ready initiatives that respond to historic and emergent social and environmental inequity.

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Section: Anthropological Contributions To Global Washmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Approaches: Anthropological Contributions and Future Directions for Engineering

Workman

Cairns

Reyes

et al. 2021

Environmental Engineering Science

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“…These colonial water governance frameworks are especially destructive for Indigenous Peoples, communities, and cultures (Basdeo & Bharadwaj, 2013;Borrows, 2002;LaBoucane-Benson et al, 2012;Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples [RCAP], 1996;Walkem, 2007), as seen with water dispossession under a regime of settler governance in Mushkegowuk territory due to a series of mining developments (Daigle, 2018), and Oceti Sakowin's (The Great Sioux Nation) protection of sacred waterways from the Dakota Access Pipeline (Young, 2017). Further, these frameworks can be destructive to water itself, by perpetuating colonial conceptions of water as a material resource available for human exploitation, ownership, management, and pollution (McGregor, 2014;Wilson, 2019).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

"The Legacy Will Be the Change": Reconciling How We Live with and Relate to Water

Day

Cunsolo

Castleden

et al. 2020

iipj

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Current challenges relating to water governance in Canada are motivating calls for approaches that implement Indigenous and Western knowledge systems together, as well as calls to form equitable partnerships with Indigenous Peoples grounded in respectful Nation-to-Nation relationships. By foregrounding the perspectives of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, this study explores the nature and dimensions of Indigenous ways of knowing around water and examines what the inclusion of Indigenous voices, lived experience, and knowledge mean for water policy and research. Data were collected during a National Water Gathering that brought together 32 Indigenous and non-Indigenous water experts, researchers, and knowledge holders from across Canada. Data were analyzed thematically through a collaborative podcasting methodology, which also contributed to an audio-documentary podcast (www.WaterDialogues.ca).

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“…Goods, resources and services imply some form of division between systems or worlds (social, ecological, cultural, political, spiritual, economic) and an elevation of people above the natural environment, which contradicts Indigenous ways of knowing that includes people as an interconnected and interdependent part of nature. However, the authors here have used the most common terms consistent with the literature reviewed so that the content and key arguments in this article can be engaged by a broad academic audience [149][150][151][152].…”

Section: Distributive Injustice (Focused)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous Environmental Justice within Marine Ecosystems: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Indigenous Peoples’ Involvement in Marine Governance and Management

2021

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We develop and apply a systematic review methodology to identify and understand how the peer-reviewed literature characterises Indigenous peoples’ involvement in marine governance and management approaches in terms of equity and justice worldwide. We reviewed the peer-reviewed English-language research articles between January 2015 and September 2020 for examples of Indigenous peoples’ involvement in marine governance and management using the analytical lens of environmental justice. The majority of research studies highlighted that Indigenous peoples experienced some form of environmental injustice linked to existing marine governance and management, most notably in the context of inequitable decision-making procedures surrounding the establishment and operation of marine protected areas. However, there are significant gaps in the current literature, including a notable absence of studies exploring Indigenous women and other gender minorities’ involvement in marine planning and management and the limited number of studies about Indigenous peoples living throughout Asia, the Arctic, Russia, and Africa. More studies are needed to explore collaborative and intersectional approaches, including co-governance and co-management and ecosystem-based management, and critically evaluate what constitutes inclusive, equitable, and just marine governance and management processes, practices, and outcomes for different Indigenous peoples occupying diverse social–ecological systems.

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“Seeing Water Like a State?”: Indigenous water governance through Yukon First Nation Self-Government Agreements

Cited by 47 publications

References 42 publications

Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Approaches: Anthropological Contributions and Future Directions for Engineering

Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Approaches: Anthropological Contributions and Future Directions for Engineering

"The Legacy Will Be the Change": Reconciling How We Live with and Relate to Water

Indigenous Environmental Justice within Marine Ecosystems: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Indigenous Peoples’ Involvement in Marine Governance and Management

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