Nalaquq (“it is found”): a knowledge co-production framework for environmental sensing and communication in Indigenous arctic communities

Abstract In 2007, the Yup’ik village of Quinhagak contacted archaeologists after locals found precontact artifacts on a nearby beach. This collaboration led to the subsequent excavation of Nunalleq, an important ancestral site threatened by climate change. Since then, an international research team...

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Published in:Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Main Authors: Gleason, Sean, Lim, Jonathan, Church, Lynn Marie, Jones, Warren, Nicolai, Carl, Pleasant, Joe, Church, Willard, Watterson, Alice, Strunk, Lonny Alaskuk, Knecht, Richard, Hillerdal, Charlotta
Other Authors: Humphreys, Lee, Hampden-Sydney College
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2023
Subjects:
Communication
Arctic
Climate change
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad030
https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article-pdf/28/5/zmad030/51232797/zmad030.pdf
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Summary:Abstract In 2007, the Yup’ik village of Quinhagak contacted archaeologists after locals found precontact artifacts on a nearby beach. This collaboration led to the subsequent excavation of Nunalleq, an important ancestral site threatened by climate change. Since then, an international research team has partnered with Yup’ik leadership in Quinhagak to address the larger impact of climate change. In turn, this article introduces Nalaquq—our framework for combining custom sensor networks with traditional knowledge to study ellavut (trans. “Our land and weather”). Doing so provides a guide for communication scholars interested in working alongside Indigenous circumpolar communities to visualize and communicate climate science.

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