Uncharted Waters: Indigenous Water Ethics and Water Governance

With two Indigenous communities, one in Northern Canada and one in Southern Australia, my research explores Indigenous water ethics and water governance models. During my proposed project, using a Participatory Action Research approach, we will video document interviews and collectively edit them to make a short video documentary focused on caring for water. This proposed Mitacs-funded trip to Australia would allow us to conduct the Australian interviews, gather video-footage, and do video editing with community members. The documentary will highlight similarities and differences from the two Indigenous cultures, linking them together through a collective knowledge-sharing project, subsequently contributing to international networks working for water projection. The short video can then act as a catalyst for future collaborative research, specifically as related to an idea to for a future exchange program that brings members of each community to the other to experientially learn about different water contexts in person.

Expected outcomes for this specific visit to Australia include:
1. Video interviews with Indigenous research community partners in Australia, edited into a short documentary;
2. Capacity building: Learning from one another and widening water-related networks;
3. Evolved plans for future participatory research collaborations;
4. TBC

Faculty Supervisor:

Monica Mulrennan

Student:

Partner:

University of Adelaide

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

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