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Eades, Gwilym. "Geoweb: indigenous mapping of intergenerational knowledge." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=97082.
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This thesis examines the transmission of intergenerational cultural knowledge on eastern James Bay Cree lands. Geospatial technologies and the representation of Cree knowledge are explored, with emphasis on the geoweb. A geoweb with two parts, old and new, is theorized as compatible with Cree interests at a landscape level of analysis. Local and traditional knowledge scales also emerge as crucial levels of analysis for the creation and transmission of hybrid forms of knowledge on the geoweb.The hypothesis that the meme is a viable and valid mechanism (replicator) for the transmission of indigenous intergenerational knowledge on the geoweb is supported. The assertion that the geoweb would be the primary vehicle for the protection and replication of place-memes is also well supported. Evidence for these claims was provided by examining traditional and local toponymic densities and qualitative data, revealing both the capacity and the will, historically and presently, to use geoweb-enabled mapping for local and traditional knowledge preservation and transmission.Cette thèse examinent la transmission de connaissance intergénérationnelles et culturelles de la réserve des Cris habitant l'est de la Baie James. La technologie géospatiale et la connaissance des Cris sont explorées, avec une emphase sur le Géoweb. Un Géoweb divisé en deux, ancien et nouveau, est théorisé comme étant compatible avec les intérêts des Cris au niveau de l'analyse du paysage. L'échelle de connaissances locale et traditionnelle ressort comme une pièce primordiale pour l'analyse de la création et de la transmission des connaissances hybrides sur le Géoweb. L'hypothèse supporte que le mème est un mécanisme viable et valable (réplication) pour transmettre les connaissances intergénérationnelles autochtones sur le Géoweb. L'affirmation que le Géoweb sera l'outil principal pour la protection et la réplication de mèmes de lieu est aussi bien supporté. Les preuves de ces allégations proviennent de l'examen traditionnel et local des densités toponymiques et des données qualitatives révélant à la fois la capacité et la volonté, historiquement et actuellement, d'utiliser la cartographie Géoweb pour la préservation et la transmission des connaissances locales et traditionnelles.
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Shih, Chia-Chi. "Participatory mapping with indigenous peoples : from conceptualization to implementation." Connect to resource, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1264522923.
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Presley, Rachel E. "Decolonizing Dissent: Mapping Indigenous Resistance onto Settler Colonial Land." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou156346106453335.
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Smith, Margaret. "Mapping Kaay Llnagaay : Indigenous cultural visuality in Haida Gwaii, B.C." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42258.
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This thesis maps out the wide range of knowledge and practices that form the field of Haida cultural visuality. Writing from an Indigenous space, which is interdisciplinary and relational, this thesis shows that culture encapsulates the relationships, responsibilities, practices and values made manifest through the actions and materialism of a people. Indigenous culture is a living experience that is informed by a wide range of relations including the use of tools and mediums of Western institutions. This thesis aims to illuminate the inalienable relationships between the past practices of Western anthropological institutions and the current movements within Indigenous owned and operated cultural centres, with a specific emphasis on research conducted at the Haida Heritage Centre at Kaay Llnagaay, in Haida Gwaii, B.C. Canada. Through the lens of cultural pedagogy, I illustrate how the Haida Nation is using education and representation as a tool to heal from cultural genocide. Within this context, I examine a wide range of international discourse and map out how, using a range of responses, the Haida have formed this emerging terrain. How have Indigenous people, caught between a European cultural system and their own traditional knowledge bases responded to appropriation, representation and pedagogy? How have they resisted and how do they continue to resist colonial cultural oppression? What are the cultural values and responsibilities that motivate Indigenous people to build their own cultural centres? How do they use these centres as pedagogical sites towards cultural regeneration? How do these sites further agendas of self-representation, cultural protection and self-representation? This thesis will show how the Skidegate Haida community has responded creatively to these issues and has created a pedagogy that continues to reiterate their relationships, protect and construct knowledge and is active within the Haida Heritage Centre at Kaay Llnagaay.
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Njiraine, Dorothy Muthoni. "Mapping and auditing indigenous knowledge and its management environment: a comparative study of Kenya and South Africa." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1062.
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A thesis submitted to the Department of Information Studies for the award of a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Library and Information Studies, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2012.Knowledge management (KM) is increasingly popularized in various societies, organizations and governments because of its confirmed importance in fostering knowledge creation, codification and transfer, and development of knowledge capital capability. Indigenous knowledge (IK), which forms part of KM, is also generally thought to have crucial functions and importance in the knowledge management process (creation or production, storage, processing or codification, transfer and utilization) and should therefore receive significant attention. The aim and objectives of the study was to map and audit the current IK environment and practices in Kenya and South Africa with specific attention to identifying the IK policies and legislation in place, exploring and analyzing the IK governance structures, examining the IK centres and systems in terms of their roles, identifying what IK programmes and activities are in existence and when are they held, determining the status, trends and types of IK research. The study used the survey method. The study was conducted in two countries, i.e. Kenya and South Africa, but was not defined geographically. It was restricted to the capital cities of Nairobi in Kenya and Pretoria in South Africa, which house the administrative governments of the two countries. Since the population of this study consisted of organizations, institutions, databases and activities, and because it was impractical to collect data from them all, the population was narrowed down to a representation or sample of the population. Non-probability sampling techniques were used to create a sampling frame through cluster and multi-stage sampling. Purposive sampling technique was applied to select centres and activities from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Gender in Kenya and South Africa that deal with IK. Both snowball sampling and purposive sampling were applied to select the key informants who headed the various IK Departments of Science and Technology in South Africa and the Department of Culture in Kenya. This resulted in a fair representation of the cultural diversity of the two countries and the various levels of knowledge, management and development of the personnel. A sample size of twenty organizations, 13 from Kenya and 7 from South Africa, was selected for this study. The sample size was different for the two countries because of the different management systems and the use of the snowball sampling technique to select xiv informants. The key informants (senior management positions within organizations) in many cases consisted of more than one person per organization. Research instruments consisted of field visits, interview guides, observation, and a document review/ critical literature review. The study used detailed interview guides with both structured and unstructured questions as the main research instrument. This was used to obtain both quantitative and qualitative data. A pilot study was carried out to test and verify the research instruments. This was done through the Department of Culture in Kenya. The study found that both Kenya and South Africa have active IK policies and management in place to ensure its sustainability. A defined institutional framework is vital for the effective management of IK. A case in point is the existence of the South African National Indigenous Knowledge Systems Office (NIKSO) under the Department of Science and Technology (DST). The functions and rationale for NIKSO are stipulated in South Africa‘s IK Policy. However, such a mechanism does not seem to exist in Kenya, especially because of the nomadic nature of the Department of Culture. Ministries that housed the department include the Ministries of Culture and Social Services, Women and Youth, Home Affairs, and National Heritage, among others. The presence of the various IK-related policy initiatives by different institutions within the same government points to lack of coordination, especially in Kenya. Examples of such duplicated initiatives include the National Policy on Culture of the Republic of Kenya, Ministry of Gender, Sports, Culture and Social Services, and the development of laws for the protection of traditional knowledge, genetic resources and folklore by the Office of the Attorney General. The importance of IK cannot be stressed enough. According to WHO, countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America use traditional medicine to help meet some of their primary healthcare needs. In Africa, up to 80 % of the population uses traditional medicine for primary healthcare. This clearly indicates that unless measures for the protection of IK are beefed up, then the Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) of indigenous knowledge may never be realized. Based on the study‘s findings, this study recommends an IK awareness program or campaign that targets those charged with the management of IK as well as the citizenry of the two countries. There should be heightened efforts to create an independent department in a vibrant ministry that deals with IK to ensure that indigenous knowledge is put to the best possible use. Further research should be done in order to find ways in which indigenous knowledge can blend with modern technology to solve current problems. Academic institutions need to play a more proactive role in promoting IK in Kenya. IK programmes and activities should also focus on all features and aspects of IK rather than capitalize on culture only.
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Martin, Alexandra Grace. "Mapping Ceremonial Stone Landscapes in the Narragansett Homelands: “Teâno Wonck Nippée Am, I Will Be Here By and By Again”." W&M ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1530192339.
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Stones have always been significant to many Enishkeetompauwog, the original people of the Northeast. However, the identification of Tribal ceremonial stone landscapes in present-day New England has become controversial. Tribal officials argue that their views on ceremonial stones have been ignored. Further, the legacy of colonialism and the historic bias that it has instilled in New England has led to dismissal of Tribal ceremonial stone landscapes, resulting in the disassembly or even destruction of culturally significant resources during development projects. This dissertation contends that collaborative work with Tribal officials that respects their expertise on what is culturally significant is essential to the work of preservation. This dissertation research was carried out in collaboration with the four Tribal Historic Preservation offices of the Mashantucket Pequot, Mohegan, Narragansett, and Wampanoag of Gay Head (Aquinnah). Ceremonial stone landscapes may be described as locations of Tribal ceremonial activity characterized by stone features that were assembled or altered by humans, and that may incorporate natural landscape features. These sites are important loci of Tribal history, inter-Tribal ceremony, and collective memory. to identify ceremonial features, multiple lines of evidence are drawn together including Tribal oral tradition, historic and archival research, field research, and collaborative documentation. This dissertation features case studies of two ceremonial stone landscapes in the Narragansett homelands: the Narragansett Indian Reservation and the Nipsachuck landscape. The presentation of ceremonial stone landscape features and sites in useful formats, including GIS shapefiles and technical reports, contribute to their preservation and protection, and help to maintain Tribal connections to ceremonial places. These case studies also show that through collaborative research, various stakeholders can be positively influenced about the existence and importance of ceremonial landscapes. The geospatial data presented in these case studies are cited with the permission of the four Tribal Historic Preservation officers. These data have been previously presented to federal agencies and are confidential pursuant to Section 106 of National Historic Preservation (36 CFR 800.4[a][4], 800.11[c]). This project intersects with federal policies and academic efforts to implement geospatial technologies in the study of archaeological and historic records. This dissertation contributes to and draws from archaeological ways of thinking about memory, commemoration, and landscape archaeology. This research also contributes to the thematic studies of historical archaeology of Native Americans, to the new colonial history of New England, to the developing methodologies of Indigenous archaeology.
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Cameron, Mary. "Culturally Safe Epidemiology: Methodology at the Interface of Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20210.
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Since the early 20th Century, epidemiological research has brought benefits and burdens to Aboriginal communities in Canada. Many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit continue to view Western research with distrust; quantitative study methods are perceived as especially inconsistent with indigenous ways of knowing. There is increasing recognition, however, that rigorous epidemiological research can produce evidence that draws attention, and potentially resources, to pressing health issues in Aboriginal communities. The thesis begins by introducing a framework for culturally safe epidemiology, from the identification of research priorities, through fieldwork and analysis, to communication and use of evidence. Drawing on a sexual health research initiative with Inuit in Ottawa as a case study, the thesis examines cognitive mapping as a promising culturally safe method to reviewing indigenous knowledge. Juxtaposing this approach with a systematic review of the literature, the standard protocol to reviewing Western scientific knowledge, the thesis demonstrates the potential for cognitive mapping to identify culturally safe spaces in epidemiological research where neither scientific validity nor cultural integrity is compromised. Modern epidemiology and indigenous knowledge are not inherently discordant; many public health opportunities arise at this interface and good science must begin here too.
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Davis, Kierrynn, University of Western Sydney, Faculty of Social Inquiry, and School of Social Ecology. "Cartographies of rural community nursing and primary health care: mapping the in-between spaces." THESIS_FSI_SEL_Davis_K.xml, 1998. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/470.
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This postmodern feminist ethnographies research aimed to explore the everyday meanings of primary health care (PHC) held by rural community nurses. Secondly, the research aimed to explore the everyday meanings of care held by the clients of the rural community nurses who participated in the study. The representation of this research is written in four voices which converse with each other to varying degrees in each chapter. This writing strategy is a deliberate one aimed at destabilising the usual approach to representation of research. It is also a strategy which seeks methodological coherence. The third aim therefore is to deliberately trouble the acceptable grounds concerning how nursing research is represented. The research utilised dialogical (conversational)and participant observation methods concerning the everyday meanings of nurses and their clients.The meanings I made of the information were created from a deconstruction of the texts. These texts included fieldnotes of participant observations and transcripts of conversations with nurses and their clients. The form of deconstruction utilised was informed from multiple sources and involved three levels of analysis. A realist interpretation was followed by an oppositional interpretation and then a reconstructive movement. The results revealed that rural community nurses practice is both spatio-temporally contextualised and metaphorically situated in an in-between space. This in-between space is situated between margin and the centre. Rural community nurses working on the margins traverse this space in order to overcome further marginalisation whilst working with Indigenous Australians and the aged. Moreover, the in-between space encompasses and creates opportunities to mutually exchange the gift of desire that being - empowering and compassionate relationships with clients and colleagues. Futhermore, whilst rural community nurses are strongly committed to the philosophy of PHC, their evryday working life is discursively constructed by powerful discourses which result in oppositional tensions. The tensions and the 'in-between' space allow the rhetoric of PHC to be resisted and reframed. Consequently, the oppositional constructs of their practice were displaced. Moreover, this necessitated the negotiation of space and place, and required the reconstruction of subjectivity, intersubjectivity and becomingDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Isaac, Jaimie Lyn. "Decolonizing curatorial practice : acknowledging Indigenous curatorial praxis, mapping its agency, recognizing it's aesthetic within contemporary Canadian art." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58182.
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For decades, Indigenous art, artifacts and objects have had a contested history within galleries and museums. This is because Indigenous material culture was collected, interpreted, displayed and described through a Western colonial ideology, without Indigenous consent, intellectual or cultural contributions. The history represented in galleries and museums was deficient and perpetuated harmful myths and systemic racism. In order to substantiate change and demand for Indigenous leadership, it is necessary to understand the reality of the Indian as a dehumanized population, whose voice and knowledge in historical narratives has been systematically undermined, undergrounded and dismissed. More than 150 years of ‘education’ in the residential school systems, and forcible separation from Indigenous cultural traditions in ceremony, life ways and language, has affected more than seven generations. In the late 60s and early 70s Indigenous peoples en masse united to confront the disconnection from their cultural knowledge and language, and became a time of cultural resurgence and Indigenous renaissance. Indigenous Curatorial Praxis developed to assert, advance and frame Indigenous art as contemporary and relevant. By providing an historical context for its development, my main thesis seeks to identify and acknowledge the agency and aesthetic of Indigenous curatorial praxis and methodology. Indigenous curatorial practice is a stream of contemporary curatorial practice and this research seeks to recognize Indigenous methods embodied within the larger practice. This thesis inquires what it means to decolonize and Indigenize museum, gallery, and exhibition spaces and demonstrate how Indigenous curatorial contributions have affected the Canadian artistic landscape. The contextual genesis of my philosophy is rooted in a framework of Indigenous knowledge, decolonizing methods and my Anishnaabe-Indigenous familial, curatorial and artistic knowledge.Graduate Studies, College of (Okanagan)
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Johnson, Janelle Marie. "Mapping a New Field: Cross-border Professional Development for Teachers." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/202740.
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Many of the international, supranational, national, and grassroots development organizations working in the field of education channel their efforts into capacity-building for teachers. My research examines the nexus of such international development by US-based organizations with national schooling systems by naming and theorizing this process as a new field called cross-border teacher education. "Cross-border" is the term employed by UNESCO (2005) and OECD (2007) to describe international cooperative projects in higher education, synonymous with "transnational," "borderless," and "offshore" education (Knight, 2007). I use a critical lens to compare two distinct models of cross-border teacher education: a small locally based non-profit development organization in Guatemala that has worked with one school for several years, and a US government-funded program whose participants are trained in bilingual teaching methods and critical thinking at US colleges and universities, then return to their home communities throughout Mexico and Guatemala. These are programs for inservice teachers and are henceforth referred to as cross-border professional development or CBPD. The research questions for this study are: What institutions shape cross-border professional development in these cases? How are language policies enacted through CBPD? How do teachers make meaning of their CBPD experiences when they return to their classrooms and communities? And finally, What do these case studies tell us about cross-border professional development as a process? These questions generate understandings of national education systems, US-based international development, and cross-border education. Utilizing ethnographic approaches to educational policy that locate regional, class, and ethnic asymmetries (McCarty, 2011; Tollefson, 2002), data was gathered according to the distinct organizational structures of the two agencies. For the larger organization data collection was initiated with electronic open-ended questionnaires and supplemented by semi-structured interviews, classroom observations, and program documents. Data on the smaller organization was collected through participant observation in professional development workshops and classrooms, semi-structured interviews, and textual analysis of teacher reflections, organizational emails and documents. The research focuses on the voices of teachers as the target of cross-border professional development efforts, but also maps out the dialogic perspectives of education officials and the organizations‘ administrators to illuminate tensions within the process as well as highlights some surprising roles for teachers as agents of change.
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Cutright-Smith, Elisabeth. "Mapping Ancestral Hopi Archaeological Landscapes: An Assessment of the Efficacy of GIS Analysis for Interpreting Indigenous Cultural Landscapes." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/306776.
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The Homol'ovi region of northeastern Arizona was home to a dense prehistoric population with strong, archaeologically-visible ties to the Hopi Mesas. As an ancestral Hopi residential area, this region is an important part of the Hopi cultural landscape utilized contemporarily by Hopi people for religious and resource procurement purposes. However, while previous research indicates that the Cottonwood Wash drainage formed an important component of the Homol'ovi landscape, the archaeology of the wash and its adjacent uplands is poorly understood. This research adopts a two-pronged approach to assessing the efficacy of GIS analysis for interpreting the spatial distribution of archaeological sites within the Homol'ovi landscape. The deductive approach draws on principles of cultural landscape theory to construct a descriptive model of dimensions of Hopi land use on the basis of ethnographic documentation and Hopi traditional history. This model is applied to a database composed of survey data collected from the Cottonwood Wash vicinity and data from the Homol'ovi Research Program's survey of Homolovi State Park. The model is then operationalized through GIS analysis of site distributions, and the efficacy of the model for predicting the location of different types of prehistoric land use is evaluated. The second, inductive, approach examines site distribution relative to patterns of visibility and movement in the Homol'ovi region and identifies areas for the refinement of spatial data associated with shrines and petroglyphs in the region. On the basis of this two-pronged approach, a research strategy iteratively incorporating deductive and inductive analyses, coupled with the use of participatory approaches, is recommended for future research.
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Korson, Cadey. "Mapping Narratives of Self-Determination, National Identity, and (Re)balancing in New Caledonia." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1443154738.
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Santana, Faria Natália. "Mediated Justice : Mapping news media narratives about indigenous peoples’ rights and the mining conflicts in Renca (Brazil) and Gállok (Sweden)." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, JMK, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-159676.
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Conflicts between the mining industry and traditional communities have been challenging indigenous peoples’ rights and endangering the environment around the world. The purpose of this study is to gain a broad perspective on the role of media representations in framing (or misframing) justice (Fraser 2009) and in reflecting (or not) media responsibility (Silverstone 2017) when reporting such events. Although recent studies have analysed news media coverage of environmental conflicts from a similar theoretical approach, few studies have addressed this inquiry through narrative analysis. Particularly, considering cases from both developed and developing countries, different media ecologies (mainstream and alternative), and scales of production and distribution (national and international). This is the gap that motivates this study. The material consists of 54 articles from diverse new media sources that have reported on two contemporary mining conflicts: the Renca mining reserve in Brazil, and the Gállok/Kallak iron mine in Sweden. The analysis focuses on how the narrator conducts the stories by mapping and comparing the structural and discursive patterns found in the material. The findings show that, in both cases (Brazil and Sweden), the majority of narratives are grounded in Western-centric perspectives that tend to misframe justice. In contrast, the results suggest that fairer and more responsible narratives are the ones told from an absolute local (Cavarero 2012) perspective.
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Torres, Nunez Cinthya Evelyn. "Mapping the Amazon: Territory, Identity, and Modernity in the Literatures of Peru and Brazil (1900-1930)." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11487.
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My dissertation proposes a comprehensive study of the politics of representing the Amazonian territory in literature and culture. Using the context of the Amazonian rubber boom (1879-1912) and its aftermaths in Peru and Brazil, my research evaluates how the Amazon Basin became the focus of political and sentimental debates, triggering discussions to rethink national identity, ethnicity, sovereignty, and modernity at the turn of the twentieth century. Traditionally portrayed as an exotic, primeval land, geographically isolated, and with endless natural resources waiting exploitation by a higher civilizing order, its presence continually frustrated colonizers and investigators who failed to reduce it to a set of manageable meanings. Despite the many books written about the region since its encounter in the sixteenth century to nowadays, the Amazon resists demands to be modern and construed by an imported Western rational. Like the Pampa in Argentina and the Backlands in Brazil, Brazil and Peru's Amazon is a tropical body that calls institutional authority into question.Romance Languages and Literatures
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Godeau, Christine. "Utilizing boreal forest for climate mitigation - at what cost? : A Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping approach connecting the Paris Agreement to the sustainability of reindeer grazing." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-137561.
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The potential of utilizing boreal forests for carbon storage has gained momentum, a recognition reflected in both the Paris Agreement and science. Research on the consequences of climate policy on sustainable forest management delineate, rather inadequately, the complexities of policy-human-environment interactions. These studies are limited in terms of integrating various land user with different values sharing the same forest resource, such as indigenous peoples. This paper uses a semi-quantitative Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM) approach to capture interdisciplinary knowledge by comparing different scenarios regarding forest management strategies and power regimes, driven by the Paris Agreement or Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Given these scenarios, this paper aims to analyze the possible effects on quality of winter grazing grounds for reindeer relative to forest biomass yield. The findings of this study confirm that a scenario with more intensively managed forest is most likely to harm terrestrial and arboreal lichen availability, which is the basis for sustainable winter grazing for reindeer. The study also suggests that more indigenous influence would enhance the sustainability of reindeer herding. Based on these results and given this era of industrially intensified forest management, now partly justified by climate change mitigation, it can be argued that the livelihood of Sami herders is vulnerable due to multiple direct and indirect climate stressors. The results are discussed to explore possible policy implementations, as well as environmental decision making. Keywords: climate policy, climate mitigation, boreal forests, indigenous herding, power regimes
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Gavazzi, Renato Antonio. "Agrofloresta e cartografia indígena: a gestão territorial e ambiental nas mãos dos agentes agroflorestais indígenas do Acre." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8135/tde-25102012-121716/.
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O presente trabalho aborda uma experiência local na Amazônia ocidental brasileira no estado do Acre, desde 1996, onde trata de uma ação educacional na formação de Agente Agroflorestal Indígena (AAFI) para a gestão territorial e ambiental das terras indígenas e de seu entorno. A pesquisa debate dois aspectos fundamentais na formação do AAFI: a agrofloresta e a cartografia indígena. A agrofloresta nessa pesquisa é vista pelo olhar atento dos AAFIs, através de seus registros realizados em seus diários de trabalho. Trata-se dos registros etnográficos, realizados pelos próprios índios a partir da sua realidade, por meio do uso da língua escrita e do desenho figurativo. Os diários de trabalho mostram como os AAFIs, junto às suas comunidades, têm trabalhado no uso, no manejo e na conservação dos recursos naturais e agroflorestais. Os AAFIs através das práticas agroflorestais vêm contribuindo na construção de novos modelos e novos espaços produtivos adaptados às condições ecológicas da floresta tropical, com o aporte do conhecimento tradicional, do conhecimento científico-acadêmico e do conhecimento local e de uma efetiva participação das comunidades indígenas na gestão de seus territórios. A cartografia indígena é tratada como uma disciplina direcionada para orientar o planejamento e a gestão das terras indígenas. O trabalho destaca a importância dos conhecimentos indígenas na construção individual e coletiva dos mapas mentais e georreferenciados e dos planos de gestão, como instrumentos importantes direcionados à conservação da biodiversidade, à proteção e à gestão territorial e ambiental das terras indígenas do Acre.This work is about a local experience in western Amazon, in the Brazilian state of Acre. This experience, that started in the 1996, is an initiative action the education and training of Indigenous Agroforestry Agents (IAFAs) for and environmental management lands and their surroundings. The research discusses two key aspects in the the IAFAs: a agroforestry and indigenous mapping. In this research, related to agroforestry is seen by the watchful eye of IAFAs through there witch are diary notes. It is an ethnographic record, held by the indigenous from their reality through the use of written language, and figurative drawing and mapping. Their diaries show how the IAFAs work with their communities in the use, management and conservation of natural resources. The IAFAs through agroforestry practices, have contributed in building new models and new productive spaces adapted to the ecological conditions of the rainforest, with the contribution of traditional, scientific, academic and local knowledge with effective participation of communities in managing their lands. Indigenous cartography is treated as a discipline directed to guide planning and georeferenced management of indigenous lands. The work highlights the importance of indigenous traditional knowledge in the construction of individual and collective maps and management plans, as important tools targeted for biodiversity conservation, protection and territorial environmental management of indigenous lands in Acre.
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Ironstrack, George Michael. "FROM THE ASHES: ONE STORY OF THE VILLAGE OF PINKWI MIHTOHSEENIAKI." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1153744897.
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Pacey, H. A. "The benefits and barriers to GIS for Māori." Lincoln University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/655.
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A Geographic Information System visually communicates both spatial and temporal analyses and has been available for at least twenty years in New Zealand. Using a Kaupapa Māori Research framework, this research investigates the benefits and barriers for Māori if they were to adopt GIS to assist their development outcomes. Internationally, indigenous peoples who have adopted GIS have reported they have derived significant cultural development benefits, including the preservation and continuity of traditional knowledge and culture. As Māori development continues to expand in an increasing array of corporate, scientific, management and cultural arenas, the level of intensity required to keep abreast of developments has also expanded. GIS has been used by some roopū to assist their contemporary Māori development opportunities; has been suggested as a cost effective method for spatial research for Waitangi Tribunal claims; has supported and facilitated complex textual and oral evidence, and has also been used to assist negotiation and empowerment at both central and local government level. While many successful uses are attributed to GIS projects, there are also precautionary calls made from practitioners regarding the obstacles they have encountered. Overall, whilst traditional knowledge and contemporary technology has been beneficially fused together, in some instances hidden or unforeseen consequences have impeded or imperilled seamless uptake of this new technology. Challenges to the establishment of a GIS range from the theoretical (mapping cultural heritage) to the practical (access to data) to the pragmatic (costs and resources). The multiple issues inherent in mapping cultural heritage, indigenous cartography and, in particular, the current lack of intellectual property rights protection measures, are also potential barriers to successful, long-term integration of GIS into the tribal development matrix. The key impediments to GIS establishment identified by surveyed roopū were lack of information and human resources, and prioritisation over more critical factors affecting tangata whenua. Respondents also indicated they would utilise GIS if the infrastructure was in place and the cost of establishment decreased. Given the large amount of resources to be invested into GIS, and the opportunity to establish safe practices to ensure continuity of the GIS, it is prudent to make informed decisions prior to investment. As an applied piece of Kaupapa Māori research, a tangible outcome in the form of an establishment Guide is presented. Written in a deliberately novice-friendly manner, the Guide traverses fundamental issues surrounding the establishment of a GIS including investment costs and establishment processes.
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Becker, Amy. "Mapping the unmappable in indigenous digital cartographies." Thesis, 2018. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/9326.
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This thesis draws on a community-engaged digital-mapping project with the Vancouver Island Coast Salish community of the Stz’uminus First Nation. In this paper, I discuss the ways in which conventional cartographic representations of Indigenous peoples are laden with methodological and visual assumptions that position Indigenous peoples’ perspectives, stories, and experiences within test-, proof-, and boundary-driven legal and Eurocentric contexts. In contrast, I frame this project’s methodology and digital mapping tools as an effort to map a depth of place, the emotional, spiritual, experiential, and kin-based cultural context that is routinely glossed over in conventional mapping practices. I argue elders’ place-based stories, when recorded on video and embedded in a digital map, produce a space for the “unmappable,” that which cannot, or will not, be expressed within the constructs of a static two-dimensional map. This thesis also describes a refusal to steep maps too deeply in cultural context for a public audience. I detail the conversations that emerged in response to a set of deeply spiritual, cultural, and personal stories to mark how the presence of Coast Salish law, customs, power structures, varying intra-community perspectives, and refusal came to bear on the production of “blank space” (interpreted colonially and legally as terra nullius) in this project’s cartographic representation. Finally, I conclude that Coast Salish sharing customs are embedded within networks of Coast Salish customary legal traditions, which fundamentally affects tensions that arise between storytelling and digital mapping technologies, between academic and community accountabilities, and between collective and individual consent.Graduate
2019-10-13
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Cheng, Yung-Chien, and 鄭踴謙. "The Study of Using Public Participation Geographic Information System in Indigenous Mapping." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25239487046029391258.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
地理環境資源學研究所
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At present, taken down the traditional culture and knowledge of indigenous communities by drawing the indigenous mapping has become one of the important applicable method in the world. Through the interactive system to transform the knowledge into information and record it is the mainly process of mapping, in which has two principal points as follow: 1.Avoid the intervention of the outside one and experts, and diminish using the bottom-up method or in-depth interview to get information, in order to encourage the interactions and communities between groups. 2.Utilize new technologies like GIS and GPS to give assistance to user during the course of transforming the traditional culture and knowledge into information and recording it. In the light of the above two principal points, we will discuss how to make a platform of communication and record by PPGIS and visualization ,then go a step further to achieve the goal promoting the participation of public theme and interactive communications. In this research, we choose Maliqwan tribe and Smangus tribe of Jianshih Township in Hsinchu County, and Kuskus tribe of Mudan Township in Pingtung County as case study. After arranging and analyzing the data, we carry system developing that has interactive 3D platform out, in which user can view the display object and record knowledge instantaneously. After operations on the spot and analysis of relevant theories, we believe the platform created in this research can promote the efficiency of interactions of information, and improve the speed of knowledge transformation, moreover combine the function of relevant multimedia and assist to store diversified traditional knowledge, then draw out the intact indigenous mapping.
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Russo, Suzanne Rebecca. "Cartography and community planning among indigenous communities in Latin America." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22558.
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Map-making is viewed among many planners, geographers, and anthropologists as a necessary first step in achieving land claims for indigenous communities in Latin America. However, map-making has yet to result in a land claim for any indigenous group, but the effects of establishing boundaries and claiming territories that have been traditionally shared are contentious. Through a literature review and interviews with three practitioners, this paper will critically examine the role of participatory ethnomapping on indigenous communities in Latin America, specifically their efforts to demarcate territory, procure land claims, and use these land claims to plan for social and economic development.text
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Yunker, Zoë. "Dispossession politics: mapping the contours of reconciliatory colonialism in Canada through industry-funded think tanks." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/10854.
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Amidst recent mobilizations of Indigenous land-based resistance and the hypocrisy inherent in the state’s implementation of UNDRIP they render visible, resource-extractive corporate capital is uniquely invested in the state’s continued ability to dispossess land from Indigenous peoples. This paper suggests that growing emphasis on Indigenous-state relations within industry-funded think tanks offers corporate capital an unprecedented avenue to participate in the evolution of federal policy discourse on state-Indigenous reconciliation. It draws on a content analysis of policy materials from four of these institutions ranging from far-right groups such as the Fraser Institute to the more moderate Institute on Governance, contextualizing findings in recent and substantive shifts in federal policy development in this area. Findings suggest that the groups’ relative diversity is underscored by common discursive themes infused by neoliberal governing rationalities that invoke a diffuse, flexible and agile policy landscape that erases the question of land—and Indigenous jurisdiction over land—which many Indigenous peoples identify as critical to meaningful reconciliation efforts.Graduate
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Chen, Chi An, and 陳祈安. "Integrating Participatory Mapping to Build a WebGIS Platform for Traditional Territories of Indigenous Peoples." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86163161351289646301.
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Robson, Dexter. "Evaluating the potential of cybercartography in facilitating Indigenous self-determination: a First Nations case study on Vancouver Island." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/11703.
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Since the arrival of settlers in the 16th century, the Canadian Government has dispossessed First Nations people of their land and culture through a history of colonialism. This has led to over a century of contentious relationships between First Nations and the Canadian Government in which First Nations have often struggled with the revitalization and reclamation of their culture and land due to oppressive systemic structures. Cartography has been one approach, among many, adopted by First Nations to facilitate self-determination in recent decades. However, the role of cartography has been one focused on western technocratic approaches of drawing territorial boundaries as part of the land claims process. Such approaches may assist First Nations in documenting land use and negotiating territorial rights and as such move them towards self-determination. Conventional western cartography is inherently incapable of representing the rich spatial nature of First Nations’ sense of cultural place. More recently, cybercartography has emerged due to technological advances in software and web-based publishing that has the potential to encapsulate First Nations’ oral history and culture by providing digital multimedia elements (i.e. audio, imagery, and video) within a digital spatial context. The use of cybercartography in this manner is quickly increasing over time, but research is lacking in understanding how new representations of First Nations history and culture through cybercartographic frameworks explicitly facilitate, or prohibit, First Nations ability to attain self-determination. To address this gap, this study evaluates the ways in which contemporary cybercartographic technologies may facilitate the process of self-determination through an application development and interview process with a local First Nation on Vancouver island, BC. The research process throughout the project are evaluated using the Indigenous principles of Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession (OCAP) and uses this as a framework to understand how the experiences of the Nation relate to the broader narrative of self-determination. The results of this study suggest that using a community-engaged approach to cybercartography facilitates community-specific requirements of self-determination, mainly because community engagement can lead to the development of tools that match community objectives and needs. Furthermore, this study demonstrated that the OCAP principles have the potential to be used in future studies for evaluating the efficacy of technologies that are intended to facilitate self-determination in First Nation communities.Graduate
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Peterson, Katherine Anne. "Charting a new course: collaborative environmental health mapping with the Isga Nation in Alberta, Canada." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/30173.
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Many Indigenous communities around the world are facing a health crisis aggravated by environmental degradation and dispossession. Through community-based participatory research, we examined barriers to land use, declining environmental health and human health implications for the Isga People in west-central Alberta, Canada. Through interviews, land use-and-occupancy and traditional and local knowledge of environmental change was spatially documented. Key concerns including declining wildlife health and water quality were largely attributed to the petroleum and forestry industries. Barriers included the encroachment of industry, agriculture and urban development, and a legacy of state-imposed assimilation policies. Human health concerns were associated with these barriers and environmental degradation along with a loss of connection to land and cultural practices. However, community resilience was also evident in the persistence of land use and cultural revival. Underlying environmental and sociopolitical factors are crucial for the health and wellbeing of the Isga and Indigenous Peoples worldwide.
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Kurtz, Eric Richard. "Reframing the debate over land title and management indigenous use of counter mapping in the Argentine Chaco /." 2001. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/48161067.html.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2001.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-102).
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Chadwick, Anna. "Lighting fires: re-searching sexualized violence with Indigenous girls in Northern Canada." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/11207.
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In this thesis, I reflect on the ethical and theoretical foundations of researching (and re-searching) sexualized violence with Indigenous girls in remote communities in northern British Columbia, Canada, through a project called Sisters Rising, an Indigenous-led, community-based research study focused on centering Indigenous teachings related to sovereignty and gender well-being. Through an emergent methodology drawing from witnessing and borderland feminisms to conduct arts- and land-based workshops with girls and community members, I sought to unsettle my relationships as a diasporic frontline worker to the communities and lands I work with. To disrupt traditional hegemonic discourses of settler colonialism, I look to arts-based and collective witnessing, reflecting on how alternative, safer spaces for Indigenous girls can be created for resistance and (re)storying connections to land and relationships.Graduate
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Hele, Ernesto Poiosse. "Indigenous knowledge in participatory mapping of artisanal fishing zones :|ba case study of Angoche district, Nampula Province in Mozambique." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/343.
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Indigenous knowledge use in identifying artisanal fishing zones is the core issue in this dissertation. It seeks, on one hand, to show the potentially of this knowledge and to establish the relationships between indigenous and scientific knowledge in fishing zones identification and, on other the hand, it is also a trend for alleviating those fishing zones surrounding beaches, estuaries and bays highly exploited by artisanal fishermen. Pushing artisanal fishermen upward offshore and/or into the open sea, they will fish more quality and high economic value fish contributing to enhance their income. By so doing, artisanal fishermen will uplift their living standard and, at the same time, they will contribute to sustainable artisanal fisheries management. Angoche District in Nampula province, north of Mozambique is the study area. The study was carried out to describe the logical sequence underlying on the process of identifying artisanal fishing zones using indigenous knowledge. The relationship between indigenous and scientific knowledge is treated with particular attention. The nature of the study is descriptive and analytical based on qualitative and quantitative data. The method used for data collection was face-to-face interviews using structured and semi-structured open-ended questions. Data on socioeconomic, traditional and cultural practices, technological and climate characteristics were collected, analyzed and discussed. Factors underlying artisanal fishing zones were studied. Spatial and non-spatial information for artisanal fishing zones identification was recorded applying Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and, later, processed and analyzed employing Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Finally, a map showing the localization and distribution of the identified fishing zones in the study area was produced. Results from the research show that identification of fishing zones offshore or open sea can be done simply based on local indigenous knowledge. The GIS technology employment facilitates the inclusion of indigenous knowledge into other knowledge which can be used for local decision making. Sustainable fisheries management can only be achieved by developing a science based on the priorities of local people, and creating a technological base that includes both traditional and modern approaches to problem-solving.Thesis (M.Env.Dev.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.
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Hele, Ernesto Poiosse. "Indigenous knowledge in participatory mapping of artisanal fishing zones : a case study of Angoche district, Nampula Province in Mozambique /." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/438.
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Wen, Shih Sheng, and 施聖文. "An Action Researcher in the Indigenous Community: A Case from the Community Mapping Process of the Atayal Community, Pyaway." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01113349690020947471.
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Trimble, Sabina. "Making maps speak: the The'wá:lí Community Digital Mapping Project." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7541.
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The The’wá:lí Community Digital Mapping Project is a collaborative, scholarly project for which the final product is a digital, layered map of the reserve and traditional lands of the Stó:lō (Xwélmexw) community of The’wá:lí (Soowahlie First Nation). The map, containing over 110 sites and stretching from Bellingham Bay, Washington in the west to Chilliwack Lake, B.C. in the east, is hyperlinked with audio, visual and textual media that tell stories about places of importance to this community. The map is intended to give voice to many different senses of and claims to place, and their intersections, in the The’wá:lí environment, while also exploring the histories of how these places and their meanings have changed over time. It expresses many, often conflicting, ways of understanding the land and waterways in this environment, and presents an alternative to the popular, colonial narrative of the settlement of the Fraser Valley. Thus, the map, intended ultimately for The’wá:lí’s use, is also meant to engage a local, non-Indigenous audience, challenging them to rethink their perceptions about where they live and about the peoples with whom they share their histories and land. The essay that follows is a discussion of the relationship-building, research, writing and map-building processes that have produced the The’wá:lí Community Digital Map.Graduate
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Zahmatkesh, Fatemeh. "Sampling, mapping and adding value to marine invasive seaweeds of the Iberian Peninsula." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/83371.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Ecologia apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaNon-indigenous species (NIS) can be defined as species that colonized new geographical areas where they were not present previously. Their increasing appearance has been causing considerable ecological and economic problems globally. Under this scope, biological invasion and invaders’ success has been an important topic during the last decades. Hundreds of marine NIS have been introduced around the world and seaweeds (marine macroalgae) are a significant part of them. Studies conducted worldwide in the last decade have been reporting around 250 species of introduced seaweeds. The northeast part of the Atlantic is especially known to be home to many introduced species and more than 100 introduced species of seaweeds are reported in Europe. This thesis will go through the processes of seaweeds invasion, from their introduction stage and their introduction vectors, to their invasive success, focusing on the main NIS of seaweeds that can be currently found at the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Particularly, six NIS of seaweeds (Sargassum muticum, Grateloupia turuturu, Asparagopsis armata (including Falkenbergia rufolanosa stage), Undaria pinnatifida, Codium fragile spp. fragile and Colpomenia peregrina) were previously selected and sampled – based on DAFOR (Dominant, Abundant, Frequent, Occasional or Rare) cover ranges scale – along intertidal sites located within the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. As a result of the sampling, the distribution of those seaweeds has been updated for the area, producing a hotspot map of their presence and relative abundance. Furthermore, the environmental management of NIS was addressed, as well as their potential uses such as biofertilizers, bioactivities, feed and food, aiming to show how these species, which are jeopardizing the ecosystem, can be an excellent environmental resource of bioactive compounds with high industrial potential and high socio-economic revenue.
As espécies não nativas (ENN) podem ser definidas como espécies que colonizaram novas áreas geográficas onde não estavam presentes anteriormente. O seu crescente aparecimento tem causado consideráveis problemas ecológicos e económicos a nível mundial. Neste âmbito, a invasão biológica e o sucesso dessas invasões tem sido um tema importante nas últimas décadas. Centenas de ENN marinhas têm sido introduzidas em todo o mundo e macroalgas marinhas são uma parte significativa delas. Estudos realizados em todo o mundo na última década têm relatado cerca de 250 espécies de macroalgas introduzidas. O nordeste do Oceano Atlântico é especialmente conhecido por albergar muitas espécies introduzidas e mais de 100 espécies de macroalgas introduzidas são relatadas na Europa. Esta tese considerará os processos de invasão de macroalgas, desde a fase de introdução e de seus vectores de introdução, ao seu sucesso invasivo, com foco nas principais ENN de macroalgas que podem ser encontradas no noroeste da Península Ibérica. Particularmente, seis ENN de macroalgas (Sargassum muticum, Grateloupia turuturu, Asparagopsis armata (incluindo a sua fase Falkenbergia rufolanosa), Undaria pinnatifida, Codium fragile spp. fragile e Colpomenia peregrina) foram previamente seleccionadas e amostradas - com base na escala de cobertura DAFOR (Dominante, Abundante, Frequente, Ocasional ou Rara) – no espaço entre marés e ao longo de praias localizadas no noroeste da Península Ibérica. Como resultado da amostragem, a distribuição dessas macroalgas foi atualizada para a área de estudo, produzindo um mapa da sua presença e abundância relativa. Além disso, a gestão ambiental das ENN foi abordada, bem como seus potenciais usos, nomeadamente como biofertilizantes, alimentos, rações, compostos bioactivos, com o objectivo de mostrar como essas espécies, que estão comprometendo o ecossistema, podem ser um excelente recurso ambiental de compostos bioativos com alta potencial industrial e alta receita socioeconómica.
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Hsiao, Huei-Chung, and 蕭惠中. "Constructing a resisting space: the social practices of indigenous community mapping in th context of Taiwan''s new national prak movement." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36796609331089562367.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
地理環境資源學研究所
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‘Indigenous community mapping’, a new concept and practice in the fields of both indigenous community development and natural resource management, is getting more attention during recent years in Taiwan. Its emergence provides a possibility to bridge two independent and controversial issues: indigenous autonomy movement and the campaign for a new proposed Maqaw national park (i.e. new national park movement), respectively. With different social agents involved, the measure of indigenous community mapping plays a role in both of the issues as a resisting space. Adopting an action research approach to promote indigenous community mapping in aboriginal villages around the proposed national park, this thesis aims to discuss the process and function of ‘indigenous community mapping’ applied in the linkage between indigenous movement and nature conservation movement. By reconstructing the human being-land relationship that promotes sustainable local development, indigenous community mapping is used as a communicating measure, which helps organize and unite local villagers to construct the local resisting space against oppressive structures of modernization, such as the nation state. This thesis first suggests that the mechanism of local resistance comes from the ‘articulation’ of local tradition/ culture and contemporary industry development, while the former provides the basis of ecological knowledge, local identity and normative force that are needed in local autonomous development. Second, environmentalist viewpoint, which emphasizes local participation of resource management and sustainable use of natural resource, is also an effective element that helps to construct the local resisting space.
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Baker, Jack. "Caring for lhuq'us (pyropia spp.): mapping and remote sensing of Hul'qumi'num culturally important seaweeds in the Salish Sea." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/12149.
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Hul’qumi’num communities on south eastern Vancouver Island have concerns about the status and safety of marine foods potentially impacted by environmental change and the urbanization and industrialization of their territories. Collaborative research undertaken with the Hul’q’umi’num’ Lands and Resources Society is part of a broader effort to revitalize cultural practices, language, and food systems. Lhuq’us (the Hul’q’umi’num’ language term for pohrpyra/pyropia spp. (commonly known as red laver or black gold)) is a flavourful and nutritious intertidal seaweed that grows on rocky beaches across the Pacific Northwest. Hul’q’umi’num’ language, cultural values, teachings, and family histories are all interwoven into the harvesting and consumption of lhuq’us in Hul’qumi’num territories. Lhuq’us is one of the species that have been persistently mentioned in conversations with state regulatory agencies and though these concerns have been raised for at least two decades there has been no systematic monitoring of the species. There are two broad streams of inquiry taken by thesis thesis. The first, employing ethnographic methodology including interviews and observant participation, seeks to both document the cultural values, oral histories, lived experiences associated with lhuq’us as well as concerns for the future collaborators have for lhuq’us and lhuq’us beaches. The second stream, based in a geographic approach, asks whether Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technologies could be employed to record the status of lhuq’us as a baseline for monitoring. Two study sites in the Salish sea were surveyed using UAV techniques: ȾEL,IȽĆ and St’utl’qulus. The overall accuracies of the UAV imagery classifications and the particular accuracies of the class representing lhuq’us suggest that UAV technologies paired with Google Earth Engine (GEE) object based image analysis (OBIA) methodologies can effectively detect lhuq’us. There are serious concerns and cultural values and practices deeply interconnected with culturally important species like lhuq’us. Through holding these concerns and values side by side with systematic observation and analyses maps and materials were created which communities can use to assert their rights, enact their own monitoring of territories and re-prioritize environmental decision-making done by federal, provincial, and municipal management agencies.Graduate
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Colás, Alberto Olivares. "Participatory mapping in the design process of a spatial data infrastructure SDI: a case study in the Biosphere Reserve Rio Platano (Honduras)." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/9203.
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Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.In the recent years, the major production of cartographic information and the advancement of new Information Technologies (IT's) has brought with it the need to develop new storage and management tools, making access in a simpler way either alphanumeric or vector information. Since the 60s, the processing, analysis and visualization of cartographic data has been carried out using GIS as desktop software, installed on a single computer. The advantage of this system was the possibility of combining different cartographic information thereby facilitating decision-making. The need to share data, mainly cartographic information, between agents who are working in the same area has been the basis for the creation of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) at global, national, regional ,local, or corporative level. Several resources for managing, classifying, sharing, exchanging, combining and accessing geographic data through internet connection have been developed together with the implementation of all levels of SDI's. The resources can be classified as: software for publishing cartographic data (maps servers), publication standards, metadata, legal framework, agreements among organizations, and the possibility to create different user levels.Therefore, the aim will be to have cartographic information updated and available for all the involved agents who are working in the same territory, which will result in sharing efforts and costs. Nevertheless, the development of new technologies has had an effect where the cartographic data producers have less direct contact with the field, ignoring somehow the people living in it who are the ones with best knowledge of the territory. In remote areas, where it is difficult to access such as the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve Region (Honduras), it is indispensable to create an SDI for managing and sharing cartographic information by the involved agents in the territory. It is important that the information offered by the indigenous communities is not left aside because they have a direct relation with the field. In the case of Rio Platano, they are scattered along the territory. The basis of this thesis is to create the SDI for the Rio Platano region and the methodology to combine the different cartographic information published by different organisms. Also, it will be important to include in the SDI structure the information regarding the cadastral boundaries and socio environmental indicators obtained from the indigenous communities. It will require the design of participative pictograms using Participatory Mapping techniques.
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Cobos, Casie. "Embodied Storying, A Methodology for Chican@ Rhetorics: (Re)making Stories, (Un)mapping the Lines, And Re-membering Bodies." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11879.
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This dissertation privileges Chican@ rhetorics in order to challenge a single History of Rhetoric, as well as to challenge Chican@s to formulate our rhetorical practices through our own epistemologies. Chapter One works in three ways: (1) it points to how a single History of Rhetoric is implemented, (2) it begins to answer Victor Villanueva's call to "Break precedent!" from a singly History, and (3) it lays groundwork for the three-prong heuristic of "embodied storying," which acts as a lens for Chican@ rhetorics.
Chapter Two uses embodied storying to look at how Chican@s are produced through History and how Chican@s produce histories. By analyzing how Spanish colonizers, contemporary scholars/publishers, and Chican@s often disembody indigenous codices, this chapter calls for rethinking how we practice codices. In order to do so, this chapter retells various stories about Malinche to show how Chican@s already privilege bodies in Chican@ stories in and beyond codices.
Chapter Three looks at cartographic practices in the construction, un-construction, and deconstruction of bodies, places, and spaces in the Americas. Because indigenous peoples practice mapping by privileging bodies who inhabit/practice spaces, this chapter shows how colonial maps rely on place-based conceptions of land in order to create imperial borders and rely on space-based conceptions in order to ignore and remove indigenous peoples from their lands.
Chapter Four looks at foodways as a practice of rhetoric, identity, community, and space. Using personal, familial, and community knowledge to discuss Mexican American food practices, this chapter argues that foodways are rhetorical in that they affect and are affected by Chican@ identities. In this way, food practices can challenge the conception of rhetoric as being solely attached to text and privilege the body.
Finally, Chapter Five looks at how Chican@ rhetorics and embodied storying can affect the field(s) of rhetoric and writing. I ask three specific questions: (1) How can we use embodied storying in histories of rhetoric? (2) How can we use embodied storying in Chican@ rhetorics? (3) How can we use embodied storying in our pedagogy?