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Coalescing Knowledge
From: Changing Tides
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In Coalescing Knowledge Frid explores the integration of traditional and scientific ways of knowing can merge in many contexts and help us find better ways to manage our relationships to local ecosystems. Frid argues that though the synergy of these two ways of knowing is essential to solving some of the biggest problems of our times, traditional ecological knowledge has the stronger track record for systematic conservation planning and achievement. He does this by focusing in on the case study of Coastal First Nations in British Columbia who, for thousands of years prior to European colonization, subsisted exclusively on resources derived from the ocean, forests, and rivers that surrounded them and had large populations. This chapter includes a brief history of colonialism and its disruption of traditional management practices by coastal First Nations; the resurgence of these traditional management practices in a modern context, largely as an Indigenous-led collaboration between scientists and First Nations.
Contributors
Alejandro Frid
Alejandro Frid, Ph.D., an ecologist for First Nations of British Columbia’s Central Coast and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria, has for over two decades inhabited the worlds of science, modern Indigenous cultures, and climate activism. He lives on Bowen Island, British Columbia.
