Centring Community Knowledge in Land Use Research

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.vi209.193798

Keywords:

anthropology, Gitxaala, human geography, natural resources

Abstract

An autoethnogrpahic account of community-based research that draws from the authors' experiences collaborating as Indigenous and Settler researchers. Using two community-based projects by way of example the authors argue all research can be improved by attending to local sensibilities over external research agendas. 

Author Biographies

Charles R. Menzies, University of British Columbia

My primary research interests are the production of anthropological films, natural resource management (primarily fisheries related), political economy, contemporary First Nations' issues, and maritime anthropology. I have conducted field research in, and have produced films concerning, north coastal BC, Canada; Brittany, France; and Donegal, Ireland. Key projects include founding and directing the Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC, authoring a weblog in support of public education, establishing an online journal, New Proposals, and acting as the coordinator of an ecological anthropology research group at UBC, Forests and Oceans for the Future.

Caroline F. Butler, Gitxaala Environmental Monitoring

Caroline F. Butler is a cultural anthropologist whose academic research has focused on Indigenous fisheries, commercial fisheries and property rights, local ecological knowledge, and research processes and methods. She has worked with the Gitxaała Nation on academic and community-based research projects since 2001 and has worked for the Gitxaała Nation government since 2009. As manager of planning and community research, she coordinated community-based research, collaborative research, spatial planning, and community engagement processes in Gitxaała Territory. In her current position as cultural projects manager, she supports language revitalization, heritage research, and repatriation.

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Published

05-05-2021

How to Cite

Menzies, C. R., & Butler, C. F. (2021). Centring Community Knowledge in Land Use Research. BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, (209), 103–124. https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.vi209.193798

Issue

No. 209 (2021): Spring

Section

Articles