Engaging Transformation: Using Seasonal Rounds to Anticipate Climate Change.

ABSTRACT: Seasonal rounds are deliberative articulations of a community's sociocultural relations with their ecological system. The process of visualizing seasonal rounds informs transdisciplinary research. We present a methodological approach for communities of enquiry to engage communities of practice through context-specific sociocultural and ecological relations driven by seasonal change. We first discuss historical précis of the concept of seasonal rounds that we apply to assess the spatial and temporal communal migrations and then describe current international research among Indigenous and rural communities in North America and Central Asia by the creation of a common vocabulary through mutual respect for multiple ways of knowing, validation of co-generated knowledge, and insigh

SUBMITTER: Kassam KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8479261 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature