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Abstract Cooperative Fisheries Research (CFR) aims to incorporate different types of knowledge into fisheries science through the convergence of diverse perspectives, skills, and expertise. CFR can facilitate knowledge co-production and the salience, credibility, and legitimacy of science, yet it can be difficult to operationalize. In Maine’s American lobster fishery, where CFR is a hallmark of the fishery, pressure to implement conservation measures to protect North Atlantic right whales, one of the world’s most endangered large whale species, poses a major challenge for harvesters. Endeavoring to follow best practices associated with CFR, our research team set out to work with state management and fishing industry partners to evaluate the socioeconomic impacts of new whale conservation regulations on the fishery. We co-defined relevant and actionable research questions and designed a sampling approach that included multiple efforts to contact industry participants. Although the process we engaged in had some of the key ingredients for success, ultimately participation was too low to achieve our research aims. We use this paper to discuss our failure and draw on the theory of scalar politics from critical geography to reflect on challenges we encountered, including how the contentious socio-political backdrop within which the initiative transpired impacted our research.
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Knowledge Co-Production Approaches to Understanding and Documenting the Role of Sound in Nomadic Herders' Life in Mongolia
The objectives of this paper are to: 1. Explain our ethical stance when doing research on soundscapes and sonic practices in Mongolia with herder communities as a Mongolian-American research team. 2. Describe our research process in concept and practice, which is based on a co-production or co-generation approach to research, highlighting the role of the team’s Nutag Researchers. 3. Discuss some cases of our co-production practice and some of the opportunities and challenges our team faces working together.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2009669
- PAR ID:
- 10539229
- Publisher / Repository:
- Research Ethics Conference Paper
- Date Published:
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- knowledge co-production soundscapes sonic practices, herders
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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