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Indigenous
Peoples Specialty Group
Sponsored Session
2008 Annual Meeting
Association of American Geographers
Boston, Massachusettes, April 15-19 2008
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| Title: | Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples II: Working with Animal Nations |
| Description: | This second session on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples concerns ways in which indigenous communities interface with animal nations. The first paper looks at the contribution of sport hunting to polar bear conservation for the Inuit in Canada's Nunavut territory, and the possible negative conservation consequences of the United States preventing its citizens from participating in the sport hunt. The second paper focuses on Iñupiaq-bowhead whale relationships, and reveals how collective uncertainty about the environmental future is expressed and managed in Iñupiaq practices, and by extension, how deeply global warming penetrates the cultural core of their society. The third paper examines the complex interplay of the social-ecological dynamics of climate change, moose, and subsistence livelihoods to understand climate change vulnerability and adaptive capacity in both the village and institutional settings in the Koyukuk-Middle Yukon region of the Interior. The fourth paper explores the differences and interactions between narratives developed from two interests: the International Pacific Halibut Commission, which is the international body that conducts all scientific research on the fishery and makes management recommendations, and fishermen from the village of Old Harbor, a remote Alaska Native community on Kodiak Island. |
| Anticipated Attendance: | 100 |
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| Participants: | | Presenter: | Martha Dowsley, Inuit and Polar Bear Management in a Changing Climate |
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Chie Siqiniq Sakakibara, Global Warming and the People of the Whales: Iñupiat Survival in a Changing World |
| Presenter: | Shannon McNeeley, When the Cold Weather Grows Old: Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in the Koyukuk-Middle Yukon Region of Interior Alaska |
| Presenter: | Laurie Richmond, Knowledge and Power in the Commons: Tracing dynamics between fishery scientist and Alaska Native fishing community narratives of the Pacific halibut fishery on Kodiak Island |
| Discussant: | Jennifer Wolch |
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| Sponsorships: | Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group
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