27 March 2025 | 16:00 - 18:00 (MDT)
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: UMC Fourth Floor - 415 / 417
Organisers: Bridget Larocque (IASC Standing Committee on Indigenous Involvement, Canada); Anita Lafferty (IASC Standing Committee on Indigenous Involvement, Canada); Anna Heiða Ólafsdóttir (IASC Marine Working Group, Iceland); Catherine Chambers (IASC Social and Human Working Group, Iceland)
Session Description:
Together, the chairs of the IASC Standing Committee on Indigenous Involvement, Marine Working Group, and Social and Human Working Group, will organize a session centered upon research planning for marine-themed topics. This session will take an interdisciplinary and holistic approach to identifying research questions and methods for equitable marine research. Speakers will be invited to share lessons learned from previous marine-themed projects, to reflect on research gaps in their specific fields of interests and expertise, and to offer advice for future research projects. In the end of the session, speakers will engage in a knowledge sharing discussion on similarities and differences between experiences and paths forward for future equitable Arctic marine stewardship and research that aid to mitigate and navigate environmental and lifeway changes. Marine research is holistic in nature and research includes food culture, subsistence fisheries, food security, commercial fisheries, the ocean in stories and story-telling, moving species, weather and safety at sea, growing ocean industries (i.e. cruise ships, aquaculture, energy), youth and connections to the sea, the ocean as home and a place for learning, shipping, sea ice, maritime heritage, gendered perspectives of ocean spaces, communities and harbors, ocean plastic, and much more.
A huge knowledge gap is understanding distinct worldviews and lifeways. J. Edward Chamberlin reminds us that the word subsistence for Indigenous Peoples “refers to all that is essential to their wellbeing, including their attachment to (spiritual as well as material) to their homeland…Indigenous Peoples talk about subsistence – that is, about shaping their lives according to patterns of sufficiency rather than of surplus.”