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RESEARCH

CICADA Research

CICADA research program is structured by seven thematic axes. Projects are organized along these axes as well as along four geographic regions.

CICADA is composed of 5 distinct research programs, each with multiple research projects. Several independent projects also participate in CICADA.

CICADA Research Programs

Research Program Director Research Themes
Arctic Domus David G. Anderson Conservation & Protected Areas; Customary Tenure; Life Projects; Livelihoods & Food Sovereignty
BESS Andrew Hendry Conservation & Protected Areas; Customary Tenure; Life Projects; Livelihoods & Food Sovereignty; Politics of Resource Extraction
E4A Peter Brown Conservation & Protected Areas; Customary Tenure; Life Projects; Politics of Resource Extraction
I-CAN John G. Galaty Community Mapping; Conservation & Protected Areas; Customary Tenure; Life Projects; Livelihoods & Food Sovereignty; Politics of Resource Extraction; Visual Methodologies
INSTEAD Colin H. Scott Community Mapping; Conservation & Protected Areas; Customary Tenure; Life Projects; Livelihoods & Food Sovereignty; Politics of Resource Extraction; Visual Methodologies

Research Projects

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Project Project Leader Program Associated Research Theme
Canadian First Nations’ Ontologies, Environmental Knowledge, and Co-Governance in the Face of Large-Scale Extractive Industries Colin H. Scott INSTEAD Politics of Resource Extraction;
Customary Tenure; Life Projects
Community Atlas of the Urracá District, Panama Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert INSTEAD Community Mapping;
Customary Tenure; Life Projects; Visual Methodologies
Community Video as Tool of Territorial Defense in Urracá District, Panama Steven Schnoor INSTEAD Customary Tenure; Life Projects; Visual Methodologies
Dialogues on Sustainability Catherine Potvin Politics of Resource Extraction;
Conservation and Protected Areas
Documenting Oral History of Development in the Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé, Panama Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert INSTEAD Customary Tenure;
Visual Methodologies;
Politics of Resource Extraction; Life Projects
Documenting the Work of the Consejo para la Protección y Preservación de la Ceremonia Ritual de Voladores Evodia Silva INSTEAD Life Projects; Visual Methodologies; Conservation and Protected Areas
Enhancing Ecologically Resilient Food Security through Innovative Farming Systems in the Semi-Arid Midlands of Kenya Gordon Hickey Livelihoods and Food Sovereignty
Environmental Impact Assessment and Social Impact of Mining in Eeyou Istchee, Nunavik and Nunavut Thierry Rodon Politics of Resource Extraction;
Conservation and Protected Areas
Impacts of Violence in the Latin American Democratic Context: the Case of Chile and Mexico Martin Hébert Politics of Resource Extraction; Life Projects; Customary Tenure; Livelihoods & Food Sovereignty
Indigenous Confluence: the Role of Indigenous Knowledge in River Restoration and Sustainable Futures Dale Turner Life Projects;
Conservation and Protected Areas; Visual Methodologies
Indigenous Development: Social Justice, Resource Rights, Institutional Hybridity Jon Altman Customary Tenure;
Livelihoods & Food Sovereignty;
Conservation & Protected Areas
Life Projects Network Mario Blaser Life Projects
Living Well in the Torres Strait: Indigenous Engagement with Economic Change and Development Julie Lahn Customary Tenure; Life Projects; Livelihoods & Food Sovereignty; Politics of Resource Extraction
Indigenous Engagements with Mining in Canada and Guatemala: Developing Refined Understandings through Collaboration and Comparison Karine Vanthuyne INSTEAD Politics of Resource Extraction; Visual Methodologies
Post-Colonial Indigenous Territorialities, Cultural Transmission, and Autonomy: the Atikamekw Nation and the Forest World Sylvie Poirier Life Projects;
Customary Tenure
Protected Areas Development and Environmental Stewardship, Eeyou Istchee (Crees of northern Quebec) Colin H. Scott INSTEAD Conservation and Protected Areas; Life Projects; Customary Tenure; Livelihoods & Food Sovereignty

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