scholarly journals Pathfinders for the Future? Indigenous Rights and Traditional Knowledge in Sweden

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 11195
Author(s):  
Åsa Nilsson Dahlström ◽  
Johanna Dahlin ◽  
Håkan Tunón
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Policy Positions ◽  
The Past

Indigenous peoples have for the past decades increasingly argued that not only is their traditional knowledge to be recognized in the management of their traditional territories, but that Indigenous control and self-governance over territories and natural resources are crucial for long-term sustainability of the land and cultural revitalisation of its people. In recent years, the Saami in Sweden have also presented themselves as pathfinders, offering advice and solutions for a more sustainable future not only for the Saami society, but for all of Sweden. This paper investigates how Saami claims for rights and stewardship in environmental management are related to Saami cultural revitalisation, within a Swedish colonial framework. It is based on an investigation of the Saami policy positions expressed in policy documents and opinion pieces produced by organisations representing the Saami, linking claims for rights and environmental stewardship with cultural revitalisation and a more sustainable development for all.

Enabling Community Well-being Self-Monitoring in the Context of Mining: The Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Klinck ◽  
Ben Bradshaw ◽  
Ruby Sandy ◽  
Silas Nabinacaboo ◽  
Mannie Mameanskum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Community Engaged Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mineral Development ◽  
Iron Deposits ◽  
Term Monitoring

The Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach is an Aboriginal community located in northern Quebec near the Labrador Border. Given the region’s rich iron deposits, the Naskapi Nation has considerable experience with major mineral development, first in the 1950s to the 1980s, and again in the past decade as companies implement plans for further extraction. This has raised concerns regarding a range of environmental and socio-economic impacts that may be caused by renewed development. These concerns have led to an interest among the Naskapi to develop a means to track community well-being over time using indicators of their own design. Exemplifying community-engaged research, this paper describes the beginning development of such a tool in fall 2012—the creation of a baseline of community well-being against which mining-induced change can be identified. Its development owes much to the remarkable and sustained contribution of many key members of the Naskapi Nation. If on-going surveying is completed based on the chosen indicators, the Nation will be better positioned to recognize shifts in its well-being and to communicate these shifts to its partners. In addition, long-term monitoring will allow the Naskapi Nation to contribute to more universal understanding of the impacts of mining for Indigenous peoples.

scholarly journals PERAN NEGARA DALAM PENGELOLAAN SUMBER DAYA KELAUTAN BERBASIS KEARIFAN LOKAL UNTUK KESEJAHTERAAN YANG BERKEADILAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Rachmad Safaat ◽  
Dwi Yono
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Traditional Society ◽  
Economic Base ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Clean Environment ◽  
Coastal Area Management ◽  
The Government

Marine and coastal area management is necessary to be operated comprehensively and sustainable. The existence of indigenous peoples and traditional society has a role in the marine and coastal areas management, but the legislation has not been fully giving more protection in its management. Economic base development, generally often ignore local society wisdom, so that a clean environment is being polluted as a result of that waiver. Development that materialistic value oriented, only the physical build that actually provide benefits to investors and not the community itself. What kind of justice that ideally obtained by indigenous and traditional peoples to achieve justice that bring prosperity? The government has neglected and must fix the policies in the legislation as a foundation for development without neglecting the indigenous people themselves. Equitable development not just physically, but sustainable development to preserve nature by observing local society wisdom that have taken place to the next. The government still considered neglectful for environmental management.

Overcoming epistemic injustices in the biomedical study of ayahuasca: Towards ethical and sustainable regulation

2022 ◽  
pp. 136346152110629
Author(s):  
Eduardo Ekman Schenberg ◽  
Konstantin Gerber
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Therapeutic Potential ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Convention On Biological Diversity ◽  
Epistemic Authority ◽  
Double Blind

After decades of biomedical research on ayahuasca's molecular compounds and their physiological effects, recent clinical trials show evidence of therapeutic potential for depression. However, indigenous peoples have been using ayahuasca therapeutically for a very long time, and thus we question the epistemic authority attributed to scientific studies, proposing that epistemic injustices were committed with practical, cultural, social, and legal consequences. We question epistemic authority based on the double-blind design, the molecularization discourse, and contextual issues about safety. We propose a new approach to foster epistemically fair research, outlining how to enforce indigenous rights, considering the Brazilian, Peruvian, and Colombian cases. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect, and develop their biocultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and cultural expressions, including traditional medicine practices. New regulations about ayahuasca must respect the free, prior, and informed consent of indigenous peoples according to the International Labor Organization Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention no. 169. The declaration of the ayahuasca complex as a national cultural heritage may prevent patenting from third parties, fostering the development of traditional medicine. When involving isolated compounds derived from traditional knowledge, benefit-sharing agreements are mandatory according to the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity. Considering the extremely high demand to treat millions of depressed patients, the medicalization of ayahuasca without adequate regulation respectful of indigenous rights can be detrimental to indigenous peoples and their management of local environments, potentially harming the sustainability of the plants and of the Amazon itself, which is approaching its dieback tipping point.

scholarly journals Indigenous Peoples, International Law, and Extractive Industry Contracts

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 220-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
International Law ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
International Norms ◽  
Extractive Industry ◽  
Global Industry

The extractive industry has contributed to the development of international law since colonial times. Contracts between states and extractive companies largely drive this global industry. This essay situates extractive industry contracts involving Indigenous peoples, long term actors who have significantly informed the development of international law, within the context of international law. While these contracts are usually analyzed from domestic perspectives, they are impacted by international norms and, as developing transnational practices, even have the potential to show ways ahead in international law. As regards engagement with Indigenous peoples, contracts, which are typically regarded as private instruments, have significant public ramifications. This is especially the case where states, Indigenous peoples, and transnational corporations (TNCs) are involved and where internationally recognized principles relating to Indigenous rights, notably free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) are implicated.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Future of Traditional Knowledge Research

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenichi Matsui
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
The Future

This introductory essay to the special issue, "The Future of Traditional Knowledge Research: Building Partnership and Capacity," discusses some of the fundamental issues about what researchers and Indigenous peoples face in collaborating research. It also discusses how contributing authors have dealt with these problems in the past.

Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property

2011 ◽  
pp. 645-654
Author(s):  
Ulia Popova-Gosart
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
International Law ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
The Past

During the past two decades, the search for an appropriate mechanism to protect ‘traditional knowledge’ has been a subject of discourse among international law and policies agents, actors of global trade, academia, environmentalists, and the indigenous-rights activists. Within the framework of international law, the discussion went into two main directions: protection of knowledge products, and protection of rights over knowledge resources as a part of a movement to preserve vitality and diversity of indigenous cultures.

scholarly journals Pollution Management and Industrial Estates: Perceptions of Residents in the Vicinity of Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate, Thailand

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-48
Author(s):  
Supaporn Pinyochatchinda
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Industrial Pollution ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Industrial Estates ◽  
The Past ◽  
Industrial Estate ◽  
Pollution Management

Industrial pollution has become a serious problem in most states and has been tackled by initiatives at the national and transnational levels. However, public opinion is still affected by the events of the past. This situation is explored through the case of Map Ta Phut industrial estate in Thailand,which has been bedeviled by environmental and safety issues since it was opened in 1989. Despite improvements in management systems, notwithstanding the explosion in 2012 which killed 12 workers in one factory, the opinions of nearby residents has been badly affected by the memories of the past. This has led to mistrust and suspicion of the industrial estate among those residents and so protests and dissent have been more common. This study employs a quantitative survey of 400 residents living in the vicinity of Map Ta Phut with a view to understanding their perceptions of environmental management on the estate and, hence, some indications of how better flows of information might improve confidence among these important stakeholders. There will need to be more effective long-term methods of dealing with health issues relating to pollution and conveying knowledge about what is being done in order to recapture public trust.

scholarly journals “Awakening the Racial Spirit”: Indians, Sámi, and the Politics of Ethnographic Representation, 1930s–1940s

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42
Author(s):  
Erik Hieta
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Preservation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Indian Affairs

The article focuses on the efforts by scholars and activists in the 1930s–1940s to reinvigorate discussions of cultural preservation for indigenous peoples at the transnational level. It focuses in particular on the correspondence between, and overlap in, the efforts of ethnographers in the United States and Finland to secure homelands for the indigenous Sámi and American Indians as the cornerstone of cultural preservation efforts. The title, “awakening the racial spirit,” a term used by U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier (1934–1945), highlights the extent to which ethnographic representations of the time built on racialized and stereotyped images from the past to project onto indigenous peoples a distinctive future. Increasingly, both Sámi and American Indians engaged with and disrupted such representations. The impacts of the efforts to document and demarcate a distinctive indigenous past continue to underpin and inform indigenous rights discussions to this day.

scholarly journals The role of traditional knowledge policies in Egypt: the case of Wadi Allaqi

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanaa A. Kandal ◽  
Jac. A. A. Swart ◽  
Hoda A. Yacoub ◽  
Menno P. Gerkema
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Local Actors

AbstractGlobally, traditional knowledge is at stake, notwithstanding intentions recorded in international policy conventions. Egypt has accepted and ratified several conventions on implementation of traditional knowledge in the fields of environment and sustainable development; yet this implementation is hampered by a lack of concrete plans. Focusing on the Bedouin community in the Southern Egypt protectorate of Wadi Allaqi, this paper investigates whether traditional knowledge plays a role in Egyptian policy, as reflected in policy documents and by interviews with regional stakeholders. We found that local actors of Wadi Allaqi protectorate-involved institutions appreciate the importance of traditional knowledge especially in environmental affairs. It can be concluded that a strengthened position of traditional knowledge in regulation and law should be supplemented by social measures and actions to overcome bureaucratic, geographical, and communicative barriers. Derived recommendations imply that the perspective of the Bedouin community should be taken into account.

scholarly journals Realizing Indigenous Rights in the Context of Extractive Imperialism:

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-59
Author(s):  
Terry Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Economic Disparities ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
United Nations Declaration ◽  
Domestic Law

Canada’s reputation as a global champion of human rights has been tarnished by the revelation of the enduring colonial impact and social and economic disparities endured by Indigenous peoples within Canada. While Canada has a strong legal framework for Indigenous rights, its significant and enduring policy and implementation failures are increasingly recognised by both domestic and international bodies. This article addresses Canada’s shifting yet fledgling progress towards the harmonisation of Canadian domestic law and the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The pathway to reconciliation and sustainable development for Canada is discussed as rights-based resource governance in contrast to Canada’s current imposition of extractive imperialism in both Canada and Latin America.

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