ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the synergistic value of integrative work across disciplines, institutions, geographies, and positionalities by drawing on the Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts (LICCI) project. Some of them are Indigenous people, while others are non-Indigenous allies who have been and/or are partnering with Indigenous and local communities in pursuit of an engaged and liberatory vision of scholarly research. Disruptions and vulnerabilities related to climate change are experienced in everyday life at the local level, in geographies that are intimately familiar to the Indigenous and local people that inhabit them. Indigenous knowledge – as expressed in interpretations and expectations of environmental change – infuses such agency, guiding analyses and decisions relative to tradeoffs across production systems, livelihood needs, natural resource uses, and the broader economy. Deep change must especially occur at higher levels of engagement, such as grant requirements by donor agencies, promotion criteria in academia, publication conventions of scholarly journals, and parameters for the inclusion of content.
