scholarly journals Mātauranga as knowledge, process and practice in Aotearoa New Zealand

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla Wehi ◽  
Hemi Whaanga ◽  
Krushil Watene ◽  
Tammy Steeves
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Genomic Research ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
Knowledge Process ◽  
Herbarium Data

The future of Aotearoa New Zealand’s biodiversity is intimately linked to the health of Māori environmental knowledge, the ability to work within different philosophical traditions, and a willingness to work at the intersections of philosophy, cultural practice and science. Māori environmental philosophies and knowledge systems (mātauranga) are intricately rooted in and shaped by Pacific pathways, and shaped by the oral traditions that connect Pacific journeys, encounters with new landscapes, and the ongoing socio-environmental and political experiences of today. Ecological knowledge has a particularly important role within this mātauranga knowledge system, and as such is deeply embedded in tribal histories. The pairing of Māori environmental knowledge with a range of other scientific tools, models and analyses is a trend that will help provide beneficial indicators of population and ecosystem health, that will in turn feed the growth and continuance of mātauranga. Recent laws have pioneered co-management solutions that embody partnership with Māori tribal groups, and enable customary responsibilities. Ethical data management guidelines, that draw on a foundation of Māori philosophies, ethics and practices, are in development for biobanking and genetic or genomic research. Museum and herbarium data are also increasingly being linked to cultural knowledge and relationships. For practitioners, access is a prerequisite to practice; locking up the environment, and locking up collections in museums, acts to alienate Māori and reduces capacity to respond to both cultural prerogatives and national challenges. Scientists who work with Māori environmental knowledge or mātauranga more broadly are part of a shifting inter-disciplinary landscape of solution building at national and international scales, where considerations of intellectual property rights, ethical research partnerships, data sovereignty and community empowerment all contribute to best outcomes.

The Experience of Poetry

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Attridge
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
English Renaissance ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

The question this book addresses is whether, in addition to its other roles, poetry—or a cultural practice we now call poetry—has, across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson’s Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616, continuously afforded the pleasurable experience we identify with the crafting of language into memorable and moving rhythmic forms. Parts I and II examine the evidence for the performance of the Iliad and the Odyssey and of Ancient Greek lyric poetry, the impact of the invention of writing on Alexandrian verse, the performances of poetry that characterized Ancient Rome, and the private and public venues for poetic experience in Late Antiquity. Part III deals with medieval verse, exploring the oral traditions that spread across Europe in the vernacular languages, the importance of manuscript transmission, the shift from roll to codex and from papyrus to parchment, and the changing audiences for poetry. Part IV explores the achievements of the English Renaissance, from the manuscript verse of Henry VIII’s court to the anthologies and collections of the late Elizabethan period. Among the topics considered in this part are the advent of print, the experience of the solitary reader, the continuing significance of manuscript circulation, the presence of poet figures in pageants and progresses, and the appearance of poets on the Elizabethan stage. Tracking both continuity and change, the book offers a history of what, over these twenty-five centuries, it has meant to enjoy a poem.

scholarly journals Traditional Ecological Knowledge

2021 ◽  
pp. 181-194
Author(s):  
Corinna Casi ◽  
Hanna Ellen Guttorm ◽  
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Brazilian Amazonia ◽  
Dynamic Relationship

This chapter argues that the concept of Traditional Ecological Knowlegde means more than the accumulated environmental knowledge and comprehension of natural phenomena. Rather, it is constituted by a set of evolving beliefs and practices that understands its own dynamic relationship with other beings in the environment. The examples of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) illustrated in this chapter include Apurinã and Manchineri communities in Brazilian Amazonia, and Sámi communities in the Arctic.

scholarly journals Funkcjonowanie miast Azji Południowo-Wschodniej w ramach międzynarodowych sieci współpracy

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-132
Author(s):  
Tomasz Kamiński
Keyword(s):  
Climate Policy ◽  
Flow Model ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Quezon City ◽  
Asian Cities ◽  
The City

Although climate policy is formulated at national and supranational levels (for example, the European Union, the United Nations), cities are responsible for its practical implementation. As a consequence, actions taken by local authorities are becoming an important factor in the success of global climate policy. One of the cities’ activities is sharing environmental knowledge within international city networks. This form of international cooperation is also becoming increasingly popular in Southeast Asia.This article analyses the participation of Asian cities in the three most important networks dealing with the exchange of ecological knowledge: C40, City Net and ICLEI. Based on interviews with representatives of all surveyed networks and the city officials of Quezon City, Philippines, I present the characteristics of cities functioning in networks, in particular the knowledge flow model, which has a certain postcolonial feature but also promotes social dialogue and cooperation with local partners.

scholarly journals Alaska Native genomic research: perspectives from Alaska Native leaders, federal staff, and biomedical researchers

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1935-1943
Author(s):  
Vanessa Y. Hiratsuka ◽  
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Michael J. Hahn ◽  
R. Brian Woodbury ◽  
Sara Chandros Hull ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alaska Native ◽  
Genomic Research ◽  
Health Board ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Health Organizations ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
Cultural Considerations ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
National Human ◽  
Genomics Research

AbstractMeaningful engagement of Alaska Native (AN) tribes and tribal health organizations is essential in the conduct of socially responsible and ethical research. As genomics becomes increasingly important to advancements in medicine, there is a risk that populations not meaningfully included in genomic research will not benefit from the outcomes of that research. AN people have historically been underrepresented in biomedical research; AN underrepresentation in genomics research is compounded by mistrust based on past abuses, concerns about privacy and data ownership, and cultural considerations specific to this type of research. Working together, the National Human Genome Research Institute and two Alaska Native health organizations, Southcentral Foundation and the Alaska Native Health Board, cosponsored a workshop in July 2018 to engage key stakeholders in discussion, strengthen relationships, and facilitate partnership and consideration of participation of AN people in community-driven biomedical and genomic research. AN priorities related to translation of genomics research to health and health care, return of genomic results, design of research studies, and data sharing were discussed. This report summarizes the perspectives that emerged from the dialogue and offers considerations for effective and socially responsible genomic research partnerships with AN communities.

Historical Understandings of Weather and Society, From the Everyday to the Extreme

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Hall
Keyword(s):  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Rapid Onset ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation

Throughout history human societies have been shaped and sculpted by the weather conditions that they faced. More than just the physical parameters imposed by the weather itself, how individuals, communities, and whole societies have imagined and understood the weather has influenced many facets of human activity, from agriculture to literary culture. Whether through direct lived experiences, oral traditions and stories, or empirical scientific data these different ways of understanding meteorological conditions have served a multitude of functions in society, from the pragmatic to the moral. While developments made in the scientific understanding of the atmosphere over the last 300 years have been demonstrably beneficial to most communities, their rapid onset and spread across different societies often came at the expense of older ways of knowing. Therefore, the late 20th century turn to emphasizing the importance of and interrogating and incorporating of traditional ecological knowledge within meteorological frameworks and discourses was essential. This scholarly research, underway across a number of disciplines across the humanities and beyond, not only aides the top-down integration and reach of mitigation and adaptation plans in response to the threat posed by anthropogenic climate change; it also enables the bottom-up flow of forgotten or overlooked knowledge, which helps to refine and improve our scientific understanding of global environmental systems.

scholarly journals THE STATE OF ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AS AN ELEMENT OF ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS

2020 ◽  
Vol XXII (4) ◽  
pp. 183-191
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Siedlecka ◽  
Izabella Sikorska-Wolak
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
The State ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Ecological Awareness ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
And Training

The aim of the article is to present the state of environmental knowledge of young people. Contemporary perception of environmental problems has been evaluated in recent decades. More and more often are the problems related to climate change and our role in activities to maintain the values of the natural environment directly visible. The implementation of the idea of sustainable development not only in economic but also social life creates opportunities for both broadening one’s knowledge and taking actions for nature. Environmental awareness presented in the article is based on the assessment of the state of ecological knowledge. The research, on the basis of which the article was developed, was carried out in 2004 on a group of students from Warsaw University of Life Sciences, and was repeated in 2019. The research was carried out in a group of students of the faculty of Economics. The obtained results indicated that the main sources of acquiring knowledge on topics related to the environment are changing, and the role of education and training in the educational institution is increasing. On the other hand, the level of ecological awareness, expressed in the state of knowledge, varies in terms of subject matter. In the case of defining the five researched terms, it was possible to observe a higher correctness of the assignment of terms and their definition among the respondents from the second survey carried out in 2019. The respondents from the repeated survey also showed a higher level of knowledge in the field of knowledge of national parks in Poland.

scholarly journals Decolonizing Diet: Healing by Reclaiming Traditional Indigenous Foodways

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 0 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Bodirsky ◽  
Jon Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Cultural Integrity ◽  
Food Knowledge ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Nations Community

Abstract Traditional Indigenous foodways remain important for the ongoing health and well being of contemporary Indigenous North American peoples. Drawing partly on primary research on food-related knowledge and experience within the First Nations community of Toronto, the authors trace how colonial policies of assimilation attempted to destroy Indigenous knowledge and in so doing spawned numerous trans-generational health consequences for Indigenous populations, which are still felt today. While colonial attempts at assimilation seriously undermined the integrity of traditional Indigenous foodways, today this cultural knowledge is undergoing a resurgence. Contemporary Indigenous peoples have expanded upon oral traditions with written stories of food gathering and recipes as a means to revitalize food knowledge, cultural integrity and community -- all inextricably linked to health. As such, the authors argue that fostering the resurgence of traditional Indigenous knowledge about food is a necessary in healing the trauma emerging from colonialism. Indigenous cookbooks provide opportunities to share information about traditional culture and food knowledge along with the recipes more conventionally associated with cookbooks.

scholarly journals Pedagogical university students’ environmental knowledge improvement method

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-209
Author(s):  
Alexandr Georgievich Busygin ◽  
Elena Vladimirovna Lizunova
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The World ◽  
Improvement Method

Currently, the world is at a decisive point at which the destruction of the environment and modern civilization, or finding ways to prevent the environmental crisis, catastrophes that threaten mass destruction. It is necessary to change this situation, if humanity really wants to save the environment and livelihoods. Scientists have concluded that the environmental crisis is a reflection of the crisis of society, crisis of modern culture, which is focused on increasing the amount of human needs without taking into account the capabilities of the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. This paper deals with the methodology of ecological knowledge improvement among students of pedagogical university in the framework of the integrative course Fundamentals of Ecology. The authors pay special attention to the development of the program, which is aimed at ecological knowledge improvement in wildlife management and environmental protection among students of pedagogical universities. The structure of this program allows you to logically organize the material and review it comprehensively. All the blocks (components) of the program are linked. The program is based on the following principles: universality, continuity, consistency, integration, flexibility and variability, conformity to culture and ecohumanism.

scholarly journals Oral traditions of the Kerinci community: proverbs, sayings, and old rules

2021 ◽  
pp. 66-81
Author(s):  
Asvic Helida ◽  
Ervizal Amir Muhammad Zuhud
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Community Group ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Oral Transmission ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The People ◽  
Level Of Knowledge

Proverb of a community can indicate their level of knowledge on natural resource and forest management. These expressions are an effective way to learn about traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Differences or similarities in the knowledge systems of various ethnic groups can be found by comparing their expressions. This traditional ecological knowledge is passed down from generation to generation through oral tradition. Oral traditions are not always reliable because they depend on memory and oral transmission. However, unlike proverbs, old sayings and societal rules have more validity by their nature. Proverbs and old sayings are expressions of fundamental truths or practical perceptions based on common sense or cultural experience. The Kerinci community in Kerinci Regency, Jambi Province, is known to have these expressions, but it has not been documented. Therefore the significance of this research needs to be done. The maintenance of expressions of oral tradition is a task from generation to generation simultaneously so that the collection of expressions in the form of proverbs, proverbs, and local rules from a community group becomes essential for the development of science. This study aims to document and analyze the expressions of the people of Kerinci. The research method was carried out qualitatively with library research techniques and interviews with resource persons. The results show that there are 30 expressions of the Kerinci community consisting of proverbs and old rules. These expressions show that the people of Kerinci have the knowledge they get from nature and the ecosystem in which they live.

scholarly journals Ecological knowledge and connectedness to nature as predictors of farmers’ ecological attitudes

2021 ◽  
pp. 435-445
Author(s):  
Jelena Despotovic ◽  
Vesna Rodic
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
New Ecological Paradigm ◽  
Connectedness To Nature ◽  
Responsible Behaviour ◽  
Insight Into

Environmental attitudes are one of the determinants of farmers? ecologically responsible behaviour. However, it is not easy to determine factors which influence individuals? environmental attitudes. The literature suggests the existence of a number of influencing factors. In this paper, the environmental attitudes of the farmers? in Vojvodina have been tested in relation to environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature, which are important elements of environmental awareness. As far as the authors know, these variables have not yet been linked to the concept of the new ecological paradigm (NEP), and this paper provides new insight into the relations between the NEP scale and the selected elements of environmental awareness. A multiple regression was conducted to see if environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature predicted the environmental attitudes. The results show that both variables explain 9.6% variance in NEP values. The results show that the farmers? environmental knowledge and their connectedness to nature are statistically significant, but in a small percentage explain the achieved values on the NEP scale. ?herefore, one can say that the tested variables are predictors of environmental attitudes, but they are also influenced by other factors which need to be investigated in the future researches.

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