TY - JOUR
T1 - Enabling enduring evidence-based policy for the Southern Ocean through cultural arts practices
AU - Roberts, Lisa
AU - Kutay, Cat
AU - Melbourne-Thomas, Jess
AU - Petrou, Katherina
AU - M Benson, Tracey
AU - Fiore, Danae
AU - Fletcher, Paul
AU - Johnson, Ellery
AU - Silk, Melissa
AU - Taberner, Stephen
AU - Filgueira, Victor Vargas
AU - Constable, Andrew
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Jenny Fraser for her Aboriginal Australian digital art perspective of the ocean contributed to the MEASO Cultural Connections web site (http://measocc.teachingforchange.edu.au/node/105) and to Lynden Nicholls and Tiriki Onus for participation and guidance in some of the round-table discussions. We would like to thank William Gladstone and Mibu Fischer for their insightful comments to improve this manuscript. We would also like to thank Irene Schloss for facilitating the inclusion of a Tierra Del Fuegan cultural perspective. Funding. Pew Charitable Trusts for the cost of publishing this manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright © 2021 Roberts, Kutay, Melbourne-Thomas, Petrou, Benson, Fiore, Fletcher, Johnson, Silk, Taberner, Filgueira and Constable.
PY - 2021/5/26
Y1 - 2021/5/26
N2 - This paper provides a perspective on how art and cross-cultural conversations can facilitate understanding of important scientific processes, outcomes and conclusions, using the Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean (MEASO) as a case study. First, we reflect on our rationale and approach, describing the importance of deeper communication, such as through the arts, to the policy process; more enduring decisions are possible by engaging and obtaining perspectives through more than just a utilitarian lens. Second, we draw on the LivingData Website [http://www.livingdata.net.au] where art in all its forms is made to bridge differences in knowledge systems and their values, provide examples of how Indigenous knowledge and Western science can be complementary, and how Indigenous knowledge can show the difference between historical natural environmental phenomena and current unnatural phenomena, including how the Anthropocene is disrupting cultural connections with the environment that ultimately impact everyone. Lastly, we document the non-linear process of our experience and draw lessons from it that can guide deeper communication between disciples and cultures, to potentially benefit decision-making. Our perspective is derived as a collective from diverse backgrounds, histories, knowledge systems and values.
AB - This paper provides a perspective on how art and cross-cultural conversations can facilitate understanding of important scientific processes, outcomes and conclusions, using the Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean (MEASO) as a case study. First, we reflect on our rationale and approach, describing the importance of deeper communication, such as through the arts, to the policy process; more enduring decisions are possible by engaging and obtaining perspectives through more than just a utilitarian lens. Second, we draw on the LivingData Website [http://www.livingdata.net.au] where art in all its forms is made to bridge differences in knowledge systems and their values, provide examples of how Indigenous knowledge and Western science can be complementary, and how Indigenous knowledge can show the difference between historical natural environmental phenomena and current unnatural phenomena, including how the Anthropocene is disrupting cultural connections with the environment that ultimately impact everyone. Lastly, we document the non-linear process of our experience and draw lessons from it that can guide deeper communication between disciples and cultures, to potentially benefit decision-making. Our perspective is derived as a collective from diverse backgrounds, histories, knowledge systems and values.
KW - Antarctic
KW - climate science
KW - cross-cultural
KW - Indigenous knowledge
KW - interdisciplinary
KW - Southern Ocean
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U2 - 10.3389/fevo.2021.616089
DO - 10.3389/fevo.2021.616089
M3 - Article
SN - 2296-701X
VL - 9
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
JF - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
M1 - 616089
ER -