Here's the Abstract of My First-Ever Scientific Paper

Yep, that’s right! My first ever peer-reviewed paper has been accepted by a scientific journal. The American Naturalist has accepted the paper and it is titled: “Transforming Restoration Science: Multiple Knowledges and Community Research Cogeneration in the Klamath and Duwamish Rivers.“

You can read more about this paper at The Liminal—here’s a direct link to the post where I discuss the paper. But here, in the Marine Science section, I wanted to share the paper’s abstract with you all.

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ABSTRACT

Racism and colonialism within restoration science continue to perpetuate exclusionary and oppressive paradigms in ecosystem restoration and in wider societal contexts, from setting scientific agendas to translating findings into policy. These paradigms impair progress and cause harm by 1) tokenizing epistemic diversity; 2) perpetuating injustice in frontline communities by ignoring power dynamics and other local contexts; and 3) rejecting “unconventional” methods for connecting knowledge to action. To challenge exclusion, biological scientists must listen to path-making conversations in both Native American and Indigenous Studies on grounded normativity, an ethical framework informed by place-based practices that makes respectful, non-exploitative coexistence between human and non-human communities possible. Rather than treat western science as the objective arbiter of truth, Indigenous and feminist science approaches can draw on multiple sciences to design restoration interventions and unsettle power dynamics and historical legacies in the biological sciences. We put these approaches into practice and discuss the methodologies and outcomes of two restoration projects, one on the Duwamish River and one on the Klamath River. We use the lessons learned to discuss how scientists in all biological fields can prevent harmful inequities in restoration work, while building capacity in and supporting crucial work by frontline communities.