A Day in the Life of a Young Person with Anxiety: Arts-Based Boundary Objects Used to Communicate the Results of Health Research

In diesem Beitrag veranschaulichen wir, wie wir Grenzobjekte genutzt haben, um Ergebnisses der Studie Youth's Voices zu kommunizieren, die die Untersuchung von Angsterfahrungen junger Menschen zum Ziel hatte. Insgesamt interviewten wir 58 Jugendliche mit Angststörungen unter Hinzuziehung des Photovoice-Verfahrens. Themen, die im Zuge der Datenauswertung eruiert wurden, wurden dann in Grenzobjekte transformiert, in unserem Fall in eine Serie von Videovignetten mit tänzerischen Umsetzungen dieser Themen. Die Videovignetten führten zu bedeutungsvollen Interpretationen der Erfahrungen der Jugendlichen und eröffneten wichtige Potenziale für Empathie und gegen Stigmatisierung. Sie halfen, deren Erlebensweise einem breiteren Publikum – Politiker/innen, Praktiker/innen, Forscher/innen und der interessierten Öffentlichkeit – zu kommunizieren.In this article we outline the creation of boundary objects as just one of the means to communicate the results of the Youth's Voices research study that sought to understand young people's experiences of living with anxiety. Fifty-eight young people living with anxiety took part in open-ended interviews complemented by photovoice. As one knowledge translation strategy, themes emerging from the data were transformed into boundary objects of a series of video vignettes representing dance interpretations of the themes. The video vignettes revealed meaningful interpretations of the young people's experiences, creating the potential for enhanced empathy and understanding, and reduced stigma for young people living with anxiety. The creation of boundary objects affords the opportunity to communicate the experiences of young people living with anxiety to a wider audience of policy makers, health care practitioners, researchers, as well as the general community

Worth a thousand words?: advantages, challenges and opportunities in working with photovoice as a qualitative research method with youth and their families

Photovoice, a popular method in qualitative participatory research, involves individuals taking photographic images to document and reflect on issues significant to them. Having emerged in the mid-1990s, its popularity has been related to several advantages of working with the method associated with enhanced forms of expression and accessibility, as well as a strong alignment with participatory research principles. We explore the advantages, challenges and opportunities in working with photovoice in qualitative research through gleaning insights from the literature and from studies that were part of IN•GAUGE®, a research program that has used photovoice and other visual methods for doing research with youth and families for over 15 years. The insights provide guidance for the evolution of photovoice and the development of ethical protocol assessments that are necessary for enhancing the participatory and empowering aspects of photovoice.Bei Photovoice, einer eingeführte Methode im Rahmen partizipativer Forschung, nutzen Individuen Fotos, um für sie relevante Themen zu dokumentieren und zu reflektieren. Entwickelt Mitte der 1990 Jahre und eng verbunden mit partizipativen Prinzipien hat sich Photovoice bewährt, um Ausdrucksweisen von und Zugangsweisen zu spezifischen Untersuchungsgruppen besser als vorher zu unterstützen. In diesem Beitrag befassen wir uns mit Herausforderungen und Optionen der Nutzung von Photovoice für qualitative Studien durch die Diskussion relevanter Literatur und von Studien, die im Rahmen von IN•GAUGE® durchgeführt wurden, einem Forschungsprogramm, in dem Photovoice und anderer visuelle Verfahren über 15 Jahre angewandt wurden in Untersuchungen mit Jugendlichen und ihren Familien. Vor diesem Hintergrund identifizieren wir Potenziale für die Weiterentwicklung von Photovoice und für die Konzeption ethischer Richtlinien, die erforderlich sind, um die partizipativen und Empowermentanteile des Verfahrens zu stärken

Promoting International Youth Engagement and Partnership Building at the IUCN World Conservation Congress : final report

The learning experiences and achievements of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) congress participants from Bangladesh, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States move towards developing strategic plans for broadening the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy (CEESP) Youth Network membership. It also contributes to the design and implementation of the Task Force on Intergenerational Partnership for Sustainability initiatives. This report compiles reflections from the partnership member network and considers the impact of the 5th IUCN World Conservation Congress (2012)

\u27Awakening the Sleeping Giant\u27: Re-Indigenization Principles for Transforming Biodiversity Conservation in Canada and Beyond

Precipitous declines in biodiversity threaten planetary boundaries, requiring transformative changes to conservation. Colonial systems have decimated species and ecosystems and dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of their rights, territories, and livelihoods. Despite these challenges, Indigenous governed lands retain a large proportion of biodiversity-rich landscapes. Indigenous Peoples have stewarded the land in ways that support people and nature in respectful relationship. Biodiversity conservation and resurgence of Indigenous autonomies are mutually compatible aims. To work towards these aims requires significant transformation in conservation and re-Indigenization. Key to both are systems that value people and nature in all their diversity and relationships. This paper introduces Indigenous principles for re-Indigenizing conservation: (i) embracing Indigenous worldviews of ecologies and M’s-it No’kmaq, (ii) learning from Indigenous languages of the land, (iii) Natural laws and Netukulimk, (iv) correct relationships, (v) total reflection and truth, (vi) Etuaptmumk—“two-eyed seeing,” and “strong like two people”, and (vii) “story-telling/ story-listening”. Although the principles derive primarily from a Mi’kmaw worldview, many are common to diverse Indigenous ways of knowing. Achieving the massive effort required for biodiversity conservation in Canada will entail transformations in worldviews and ways of thinking and bold, proactive actions, not solely as means but as ongoing imperatives

DIY Methods 2023 Conference Proceedings

The act of circulating research through zines invites participants into the “gift economy” of zine culture, where knowledge is shared within a system of reciprocal generosity and pleasure in opposition to hierarchical and capitalist forms of knowledge exchange. As zines cut through the often strict and inaccessible boundaries of traditional, peer-reviewed publications, they also allow for the circulation of research to broader audiences, making knowledge more accessible. As such, academic zines transform research into a gift to be shared amongst unknown peers, while also situating the mobilization of knowledge as care work. And so, while we are excited to receive abstracts around diverse themes and across disciplines, we ask participants to think about knowledge as a gift and research as care work during their zine-making process. How do these visions of knowledge and research mobilization affect how you view your research, others’ research, and/or yourself

Framing Indigenous Bioenergy Partnerships

The rapidly expanding forest bioenergy sector in Canada promises to support low carbon energy options that also support economic development and Indigenous involvement. Little empirical research has been conducted on Indigenous participation in forest bioenergy in Canada, which points to the need for a nuanced and reliable knowledge base to foster innovation in bioenergy that will contribute to community and economic development. However, before empirical research can be conducted it is important to understand the issues that influence Indigenous participation in the bioenergy sector. We therefore look to and conduct a frame analysis of allied sectors to develop insights about the policy and participatory landscape in which forest bioenergy in Canada is situated. Our analysis illustrates that identities and perspectives linked to energy and forestry can be complex and can shift depending on how business is done around such projects. Strengths in the current state of knowledge include the breadth of research regarding participatory natural resource management in Canada, particularly with regard to northern and Indigenous communities and territorial lands. Our review indicates that even the emerging bioenergy literature that exists now, when paired with that of allied sectors, can help analysts understand and make sense of energy and energy-related issues

Framing Indigenous Partnerships in Energy and Allied Renewable Resource Sectors. Final Report to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Canada is a top five global energy producer and thus is in a leadership position with respect to how it engages in international markets and, increasingly, energy partnerships. Growing global energy demand and international firms place demands on Indigenous communities and lands where benefits could exist, but also where local agendas and views may differ from international strategic agreements. Such is the case in the rapidly expanding biomass energy sector, which promises to support low carbon energy options that also support economic development and Indigenous involvement. Bioenergy is energy derived from any living organisms or by-products (biomass) used to produce energy or fuel (biofuel). Although bioenergy presents a range of advantages (e.g., greenhouse gas displacement, energy self-sufficiency, and regional economic benefits), its widespread use is a point of contention and political debate. The bioenergy industry is often perceived to be competing with food, driving up energy prices, and overstating its environmental benefits. This research examines how partnerships involving Indigenous groups in Canada and international and domestic partners are framed. In particular, we probe current global-local framings emanating from communities and their partners in energy and forest sectors, and, in particular, how different groups frame bioenergy economic and policy opportunities."This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canada Research Chairs Program, and the Centre for Forest Interdisciplinary Research at The University of Winnipeg.

Building Community: Vocabularies and Rituals Used to Define and Process Climate Grief by Politically Active Youth in Mi'kma'ki

There are many terms that exist to describe and define climate grief but the vocabularies that youth use to describe climate grief are not well defined. The purpose of this research was to identify the vocabularies that politically active youth use to describe and define climate grief and the rituals that they use to process it through a poetry workshop, interviews, and arts-based engagement. Twenty youth ages 12-29 living in Mi’kma’ki (Atlantic Canada) engaged in political activism connected to climate change participated in individual interviews to understand their journey to becoming politically active, their personal experiences of climate grief, and how they define and manage their climate grief on a day-to-day basis. Five of those twenty youth participated in a facilitated poetry workshop that guided them through writing poetry expressing their definitions of and experiences with climate grief, followed by a focus group debriefing their experience in the workshop. An additional three of the twenty participants submitted individual visual and written pieces of art on climate grief and participated in short interviews following their submission. The main vocabularies used to define and describe climate grief were found to be in contrast: full of despair and focused on apocalypse; and full of hope and centered on community and building just futures. Additionally, participants identified that community-centered rituals that involved tangible change or meaningful interactions were crucial for helping them manage their grief through rituals

Navigating Ethical Challenges in Qualitative Research With Children and Youth Through Sustaining Mindful Presence

This article explores ethical challenges in qualitative research by bringing forward examples from the literature and from IN•GAUGE ® , a research program spanning over 15 years and focusing on the significance of multiple perspectives and the value of gauging the health needs of young people and their families. In addition to exploring the ethical challenges in working with children and youth in research, we make the case that ethical considerations need to extend beyond research ethics boards protocols and present “sustaining mindful presence” as a conceptual frame practical guide for working through ethical challenges in qualitative research. We contend that greater participation of research subjects, including children and youth, is the way forward for developing more holistic and effective approaches to ethics within research institutions

Creativity in climate adaptation : Conceptualizing the role of arts organizations

In the face of the climate emergency, it is becoming clear that cultural change is a necessary transformative shift that must occur to ensure human survival. Climate change is entangled with behavioural and social dimensions of our lives, necessitating that we undergo cultural transformation to access the potential of existing climate solutions. While there is both an increase in research regarding how the arts can contribute to this needed cultural transformation, as well as increasing participation in climate work by those within the arts sector, the marriage between evidence and practice in this field is in its infancy. Existing literature highlights the exciting potential of the arts to make meaningful contributions to climate action through interdisciplinary contributions to knowledge creation, public engagement forums that go beyond fact-sharing, and imagining future scenarios for our world. That said, arts organizations are often left out of the conversation. In an effort to bridge the gap between study and practice in this field, this paper reports on interviews with key members of CreativePEI to better understand how one arts organization and its members conceptualize their role in climate action as well as identifying critical barriers to conducting climate work within the arts. Further, the paper situates the results of the study within the current literature, examining any synergies between the findings of the study and scholarly works in the field. By showcasing the ways in which one arts organization situates itself within the broader project of climate change, this work sheds new light on the current state of climate work in the arts in Canada and how cultural organizations can reimagine their role to better align with the evidence about what the arts can uniquely offer to climate action.Face à l'urgence climatique, il devient évident que le changement culturel est une transformation nécessaire pour assurer la survie de l'humanité. Le changement climatique est lié aux dimensions comportementales et sociales de nos vies, ce qui nécessite une transformation culturelle pour accéder au potentiel des solutions climatiques existantes. Bien qu'il y ait une augmentation de la recherche sur la façon dont les arts peuvent contribuer à cette transformation culturelle nécessaire, ainsi qu'une participation croissante au travail sur le climat par les acteurs du secteur artistique, le mariage entre les preuves et la pratique dans ce domaine n'en est qu'à ses balbutiements. La littérature existante met en évidence le potentiel passionnant des arts pour apporter des contributions significatives à l'action climatique par le biais de contributions interdisciplinaires à la création de connaissances, de forums d'engagement public qui vont au-delà du partage de faits, et de l'imagination de scénarios futurs pour notre monde. Cela dit, les organisations artistiques sont souvent exclues de la conversation. Afin de combler le fossé entre l'étude et la pratique dans ce domaine, cet article rend compte d'entretiens avec des membres clés de CreativePEI pour mieux comprendre comment une organisation artistique et ses membres conceptualisent leur rôle dans l'action climatique et pour identifier les obstacles critiques à la réalisation d'un travail sur le climat dans le domaine des arts. En outre, l'article situe les résultats de l'étude dans la littérature actuelle, en examinant les synergies entre les résultats de l'étude et les travaux universitaires dans ce domaine. En présentant les façons dont une organisation artistique se situe dans le projet plus large du changement climatique, ce travail jette un nouvel éclairage sur l'état actuel du travail sur le climat dans les arts au Canada et sur la façon dont les organisations culturelles peuvent réimaginer leur rôle pour mieux s'aligner sur les preuves de ce que les arts peuvent offrir de façon unique à l'action climatique