Project Profile: CuHeMo
Cultural Heritage in Motion: Indigenous Knowledge and Mobile Livelihoods in Changing Climates
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Ingrid Boas, WUR, Netherland |
| Partners: | Simon Bunchuay Peth, UniVIE, Austria Kwanchit Sasiwongsaroj, MU, Thailand Patrick Sakdapolrak, UniVIE, Austria Harald Sterly, UniVIE, Austria Annah Zhu, WUR, Netherland Ruben Dahm, Deltares, Netherlands Michael Fanizadeh, VIDC, Austria Adane K. Gebeyehu, HoAREC&N, Ethiopia Ari Laskin, DBM, United States of America Amadou Ndiaye, UAM, Senegal Aliou Sall, Credetip, Senegal Wittawat Tepsong, Andaman Sea Gypsies Association, Thailand |
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What?
| Full Project Title: | Cultural Heritage in Motion: Indigenous Knowledge and Mobile Livelihoods in Changing Climates |
| Full Call Title: | CCH2023: CCH2023- Climate and Cultural Heritage |
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Why?
| Project Objective: | The impacts of climate change can be detrimental to the cultural livelihoods of indigenous communities. At the same time, indigenous cultural heritage may play a role in adapting to climate risk and can be central to rethinking dominant approaches to addressing and understanding climate change. In CuHeMo we examine the role that cultural heritage plays in climate change adaptation, drawing from climate sciences, social sciences, and indigenous ways of knowing. We focus on indigenous groups whose livelihoods have historically been mobile, specifically pastoralists and fishery communities in Thailand, Ethiopia and Senegal. In researching this, CuHeMo offers a transdisciplinary perspective bringing together climate scientists, social scientists and indigenous knowledge holders. CuHeMo will do this fora diversity of climate parameters and geographical spaces, through in-depth yet comparative case-studies. This integrative assessment of climate-cultural risk will include attention to the ways in which large scale and place-based sustainability projects may hinder the mobile practices of indigenous cultural heritage. Coordinated by Wageningen University (LPI), CuHeMo is driven by a transdisciplinary consortium, involving: social scientists with expertise in climate mobility (Wageningen University, University of Vienna) and cultural studies (Mahidol University); climate scientists (Deltares, Wageningen University); and academic and societal stakeholders with strong connections to the indigenous communities involved (Chao Leh Andaman Assoc., CREDETIP, University of Amadou Mahtar Mbow, HoAREC/N) and to the international policy community (VIDC)and media(Double Blind Media). Through participative methodologies and knowledge utilization activities, including community-based workshops, artistic expressions with indigenous communities, policy mobilization, and a project video intended fora broad public audience, our findings will shape main stream policy debates concerning climate adaptation and mobile cultures. |
| Call Objective: | This Call aims to support transdisciplinary and convergent research approaches on cultural heritage and climate change, to foster collaboration among the research community across several regions, and to contribute to knowledge advances and policy change at the global level. Applicants are invited to submit research proposals that address at least one of the three call themes: 1. The Impact of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage; 2. Cultural Heritage as a Resource for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation; 3. Sustainable Solutions for Heritage. |
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When?
| Duration: | 36 months |
| Call Date: | 26 April 2023 |
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