Collaboration, Indigenous Ecologies, and Vala with Paige West
As climate change accelerates the unravelling of ecological and social systems, questions of knowledge, care, and responsibility become ever more urgent. In this episode, cultural and environmental anthropologist Paige West reflects on several decades of collaborative research in Papua New Guinea. Through long-term partnerships with local communities—most notably with fisheries expert and Indigenous leader John Aini—she examines how Indigenous ecological knowledge challenges dominant conservation models.
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