Institutional Navigation Of Oceans Governance: Lessons From Russia And The United States Indigenous Multi-Level Whaling Governance In The Arctic

Authors

Abigail M. York
Eduard Zdor, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Shauna BurnSilver, Arizona State UniversityFollow
Tatiana Degai, University of VictoriaFollow
Maria Monakhova, Arizona State UniversityFollow
Svetlana Isakova, Inuit Circumpolar Council
Andrey N. Petrov, University of Northern IowaFollow
Morgan Kempf, Arizona State University

Comments

First published in Earth System Governance, 14, 100154 (2022) published by Elsevier B. V. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2022.100154

Document Type

Article

Publication Version

Published Version

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Earth System Governance

Volume

14

First Page

1

Last Page

14

Abstract

Oceans governance occurs through overlapping, multi-level institutions that often fail to recognize Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. The International Whaling Commission (IWC) provides pathways for recognizing Indigenous rights. However, observed power asymmetries and cross-level local to international conflicts threatened subsistence rights and generated research and advocacy fatigue for Chukchi, Iñupiat, Saint Lawrence Island Yupik, and Siberian Yupik communities in the USA and Russia. We conduct an institutional analysis of Indigenous bowhead whaling governance based upon lived experiences of Indigenous authors, primary documents from co-management organizations, national agencies, the IWC, and extant literature. We explore how Indigenous co-management organizations increased sovereignty and self-determination for communities whose culture, identities, livelihoods, and origins are intimately connected to marine mammal hunting. Our study also provides lessons for the United Nations Decade for Ocean Science on the challenges of institutional navigation and the role of embodied resurgent practice amongst Indigenous communities within Earth system governance.

Department

Department of Geography

Original Publication Date

12-1-2022

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1 PDF File

DOI of published version

10.1016/j.esg.2022.100154

Repository

UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Date Digital

2022

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©2022 The Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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en

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application/pdf

Recommended Citation

York, Abigail M.; Zdor, Eduard; BurnSilver, Shauna; Degai, Tatiana; Monakhova, Maria; Isakova, Svetlana; Petrov, Andrey N.; and Kempf, Morgan, "Institutional Navigation Of Oceans Governance: Lessons From Russia And The United States Indigenous Multi-Level Whaling Governance In The Arctic" (2022). Faculty Publications. 5277.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/5277