Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Self-Determination, Sustainability, and Wellbeing in an Alaska Native Community

博士论文改进补助金：阿拉斯加原住民社区的自决、可持续性和福祉

• 批准号: 1759130
• 负责人: Michael Koskey
• 金额: $ 2.91万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-06-01 至 2019-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1759130&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Self

Paragraph 1Self-determining acts are autonomous acts for living a healthy life that can be practiced at the individual and community level in support of one's health and wellbeing. Research shows that a lack of self-determination, either at the community level or the individual level, can negatively affect one's health and well-being, which includes educational and economic achievement, as well as the long-term sustainability of social and cultural systems. This Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant project collaborates with an Alaska Native community to explore how Tribal members and nontribal members use self-determination, either individually or as a group, to achieve sustainability and wellbeing. A deeper understanding of the relationship between self-determination and wellbeing among Alaska Native peoples has the potential to provide insights into the health and wellbeing of other Indigenous Tribes and minority groups in the United States. This information could be critical to national interests by informing better education, health, and economic policies leading to the health and wellbeing of all people in the nation. Paragraph 2This project uses the method of ethnographic futures research to conduct interviews about the future as envisioned by community members in South Central Alaska. The interviewee talks about their optimistic, pessimistic, and most likely futures, ultimately explaining how to get to the most optimistic future. Working with an Alaska Native community, focus groups and a community meeting will be conducted following the interviews to talk about the ideas identified in the interview optimistic scenarios and how to achieve those ideas. The analysis of this data has the potential to demonstrate what Tribal and nontribal members think the Tribe can do to improve sustainability and wellbeing, and how to achieve those goals. The data has the potential to inform others, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, by demonstrating how utilizing futures research can engage community members in self-determining acts through planning, and potentially making changes, for better outcomes in the future.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

第 1 段 自决行为是为了过上健康生活而采取的自主行为，可以在个人和社区层面上实施，以支持个人的健康和福祉。 研究表明，缺乏自决，无论是在社区层面还是个人层面，都会对一个人的健康和福祉产生负面影响，其中包括教育和经济成就，以及社会和文化体系的长期可持续性。 该博士论文改进资助项目与阿拉斯加原住民社区合作，探索部落成员和非部落成员如何利用自决（无论是个人还是团体）来实现可持续性和福祉。 更深入地了解阿拉斯加原住民的自决与福祉之间的关系有可能为了解美国其他原住部落和少数群体的健康和福祉提供见解。 这些信息可能对国家利益至关重要，因为它可以为更好的教育、健康和经济政策提供信息，从而促进全国人民的健康和福祉。 第2段本项目采用民族志未来研究的方法，对阿拉斯加中南部社区成员对未来的设想进行访谈。受访者谈论了他们乐观的、悲观的和最有可能的未来，最终解释了如何达到最乐观的未来。 访谈后将与阿拉斯加原住民社区合作，召开焦点小组和社区会议，讨论访谈乐观场景中确定的想法以及如何实现这些想法。对这些数据的分析有可能证明部落和非部落成员认为部落可以采取哪些措施来提高可持续性和福祉，以及如何实现这些目标。这些数据有可能为其他人（包括土著和非土著）提供信息，展示如何利用未来研究让社区成员通过规划和可能做出改变来参与自我决定行为，以在未来取得更好的结果。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。