Planning for resettlement: building partnerships for, by, and with Indigenous peoples
Abstract Efforts in the United States to plan or implement relocation in response to climate risks have struggled to improve material conditions for participants, to incorporate local knowledge, and to keep communities intact. Mixed methodologies of community geography provide an oppo...
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| author | Kumasaka, Osamu Bronen, Robin Harrington, Elise Knox-Hayes, Janelle Laska, Shirley Naquin, Albert Patrick, Andy Peterson, Kristina Tom, Stanislaus |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning Kumasaka, Osamu Bronen, Robin Harrington, Elise Knox-Hayes, Janelle Laska, Shirley Naquin, Albert Patrick, Andy Peterson, Kristina Tom, Stanislaus |
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Efforts in the United States to plan or implement relocation in response to climate risks have struggled to improve material conditions for participants, to incorporate local knowledge, and to keep communities intact. Mixed methodologies of community geography provide an opportunity for dialogue and knowledge-sharing to collaboratively diagnose the challenges of climate adaptation led by communities. In this article, we advance a participatory practice model for the co-creation of knowledge initiated during a two-day workshop with members from the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe from Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana, Yup’ik people from Newtok Village in Alaska, and researchers from the MIT Resilient Communities Lab. Building on prior scholarship of indigenizing climate change research, this article shares the experience of the workshop to support knowledge exchange and dialogue, with the goal of understanding how to build participatory and non-extractive community-academic partnerships. We reflect on the community values and principles used to guide this workshop to inform more inclusive and co-produced research partnerships, and pedagogies that can improve and assist the self-determination of groups impacted by climate change. Workshop presentations and discussions highlight interconnected themes of resources, systems & structures, regulatory imbalance, and resilience that underpin climate resettlement. We reflect on the narratives presented by members of both Indigenous tribes and NGO partners that illustrate the shortcomings of resettlement planning practices past and present as perpetuating existing inequality. In response to this structured knowledge exchange, we identify potential roles for community-academic partnerships that aim to improve the equity of existing resettlement models. We propose approaches for incorporating traditional knowledge into the pedagogy, discourse, and practice of academic planning programs. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1454232022-10-25T05:45:08Z Planning for resettlement: building partnerships for, by, and with Indigenous peoples Kumasaka, Osamu Bronen, Robin Harrington, Elise Knox-Hayes, Janelle Laska, Shirley Naquin, Albert Patrick, Andy Peterson, Kristina Tom, Stanislaus Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning Abstract Efforts in the United States to plan or implement relocation in response to climate risks have struggled to improve material conditions for participants, to incorporate local knowledge, and to keep communities intact. Mixed methodologies of community geography provide an opportunity for dialogue and knowledge-sharing to collaboratively diagnose the challenges of climate adaptation led by communities. In this article, we advance a participatory practice model for the co-creation of knowledge initiated during a two-day workshop with members from the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe from Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana, Yup’ik people from Newtok Village in Alaska, and researchers from the MIT Resilient Communities Lab. Building on prior scholarship of indigenizing climate change research, this article shares the experience of the workshop to support knowledge exchange and dialogue, with the goal of understanding how to build participatory and non-extractive community-academic partnerships. We reflect on the community values and principles used to guide this workshop to inform more inclusive and co-produced research partnerships, and pedagogies that can improve and assist the self-determination of groups impacted by climate change. Workshop presentations and discussions highlight interconnected themes of resources, systems & structures, regulatory imbalance, and resilience that underpin climate resettlement. We reflect on the narratives presented by members of both Indigenous tribes and NGO partners that illustrate the shortcomings of resettlement planning practices past and present as perpetuating existing inequality. In response to this structured knowledge exchange, we identify potential roles for community-academic partnerships that aim to improve the equity of existing resettlement models. We propose approaches for incorporating traditional knowledge into the pedagogy, discourse, and practice of academic planning programs. 2022-09-15T12:03:00Z 2022-09-15T12:03:00Z 2021-10-25 2022-09-15T03:22:18Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/145423 Kumasaka, Osamu, Bronen, Robin, Harrington, Elise, Knox-Hayes, Janelle, Laska, Shirley et al. 2021. "Planning for resettlement: building partnerships for, by, and with Indigenous peoples." en https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-021-10518-y Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. application/pdf Springer Netherlands Springer Netherlands |
| spellingShingle | Kumasaka, Osamu Bronen, Robin Harrington, Elise Knox-Hayes, Janelle Laska, Shirley Naquin, Albert Patrick, Andy Peterson, Kristina Tom, Stanislaus Planning for resettlement: building partnerships for, by, and with Indigenous peoples |
| title | Planning for resettlement: building partnerships for, by, and with Indigenous peoples |
| title_full | Planning for resettlement: building partnerships for, by, and with Indigenous peoples |
| title_fullStr | Planning for resettlement: building partnerships for, by, and with Indigenous peoples |
| title_full_unstemmed | Planning for resettlement: building partnerships for, by, and with Indigenous peoples |
| title_short | Planning for resettlement: building partnerships for, by, and with Indigenous peoples |
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