Beyond artificial academic debates : for a diverse, inclusive, and impactful ethnobiology and ethnomedicine
Reyes-García, Victoria (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural
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2023 |
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In answer to the question "Should ethnobiology and ethnomedicine more decisively foster hypothesis-driven forefront research able to turn findings into policy and abandon more classical folkloric studies?", in this essay I argue that a major strength of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine is their ability to bridge theories and methods from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. Hypothesis-driven research is a powerful way to structure thinking that can lead to forefront research findings. But hypothesis-driven research is not the only way to structure thinking and is not a necessary condition to impact policymaking. To increase policy impact, ethnobiology and ethnomedicine should continue nurturing a mixture of complementary methods and inclusive approaches as fragmentation through opposing different approaches might weaken the discipline. Moreover, with the aim to play a fundamental role in building bridges between different knowledge systems and co-producing solutions towards sustainability, the discipline could benefit from enlarging its epistemological grounds through more collaborative research. Ethnobiologists' research findings, hypothesis-driven, descriptive, or co-constructed can become leverage points to transform knowledge into actionable outcomes in different levels of decision-making. |
Ajuts: |
European Commission F771056 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CEX2019-000940-M
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Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M |
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Anglès |
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Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
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Biological indices ;
Co-production of knowledge ;
Epistemology ;
Indigenous and local knowledge ;
Methods |
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Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine, Vol. 19 (September2023) , art. 36, ISSN 1746-4269 |
DOI: 10.1186/s13002-023-00611-6
PMID: 37679793
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