BIOCULTURAL PLACES FOR TRANSFORMATIVE COMMUNITIES AND PROTECTED AREAS: CRITICAL PLACE INQUIRY AND YOUTH PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH IN COLOMBIA
| dc.contributor.advisor | McKenzie, Marcia | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Wilson, Alex | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Miller, Dianne | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Walker, Ryan | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Dunlop, Andrew | |
| dc.creator | McRuer, Jennifer Kent 1980- | |
| dc.creator.orcid | 0000-0003-4695-5905 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-23T22:00:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-08-23T22:00:38Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2017-10 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-08-23 | |
| dc.date.submitted | October 2017 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2017-08-23T22:00:38Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation affirms the importance of explicitly and politically attending to place in research. Taking up such a critical inquiry of place, I facilitate a participatory and action-oriented approach through Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) and methods of photovoice and participatory mapping. This approach engaged six youth living in Isla Grande, Colombia, to co-investigate the significance of biocultural place relationships to their lives. This focus supports their community’s efforts toward sustainable development and self-determination of ancestral territories alongside a National Park and Marine Protected Area. Emphasizing place in research conceptualization, orientation, approach, design, and practice, we achieved the following objectives: (1) to explore youths’ relationships with place through critical place inquiry by supporting their role as co-researchers using a YPAR approach; (2) to encourage youth-led inquiry with place related to their experiences and understandings of well-being and sustainability in ancestral territory places; and (3) to assess and mobilize youth perspectives on place significance, based on biocultural interdependence. Through analysis, this dissertation offers practical insight on the relevance of a biocultural framework to discern interdependent and evolving place relationships. Resultant findings illustrate youths’ biocultural relations using a UNESCO-sCBD framework in terms of how language; material culture; knowledge, technology, innovations, and improvisations; social and economic relations; beliefs; and values are interconnected with biodiversity. These relations are discussed in connection with youths’ understandings of well-being and sustainability. Local implications of this research include applying a biocultural framework to support formal education and livelihood diversification, and encouraging youth participation in community efforts toward sustainable development. Broad implications for protected areas include how a biocultural framework can inform governance decisions based on the knowledge, values, and interests of local communities to protect both nature and culture. Implications for future research include: going "beyond the research" to capture the daily lives of youth through mobile approaches; building on participatory approaches to facilitate intergenerational learning and exchange; expanding on economic relations to support biocultural heritage innovations; and supporting collaborative processes among diverse place actors through the development of biocultural indicators | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10388/8041 | |
| dc.subject | Education for Sustainable Development | |
| dc.subject | Community-led Conservation | |
| dc.subject | Place | |
| dc.subject | Participatory and Action-Oriented Methodologies | |
| dc.subject | Youth Voice | |
| dc.subject | Collective Biocultural Heritage | |
| dc.subject | Buen Vivir | |
| dc.subject | Regenerative Development | |
| dc.title | BIOCULTURAL PLACES FOR TRANSFORMATIVE COMMUNITIES AND PROTECTED AREAS: CRITICAL PLACE INQUIRY AND YOUTH PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH IN COLOMBIA | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.material | text | |
| thesis.degree.department | Educational Foundations | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Educational Foundations | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Saskatchewan | |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) |