Co-chairs: Brian Noble (Dalhousie University) & Larry J. Zimmerman (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) (IUPUI)
Collaborations, relationships and case studies are central to the research action and outcomes of IPinCH. We, the IPinCH collective, are what we study, what we practice — both now and in the unfolding of this project. CRCS can help to foreground and generate effective interchange on this unfolding. If we are — or are not — collaborating well and keeping relations strong in our studies, we need to know how and why this is so, and we need to continually seek means to practice all of this better. That is a central aim of IPinCH. The CRCS’s overall job, then, is to watch and facilitate robust interchange on how all of this unfolds a) among all the studies, b) in relation to other working groups, c) for the overall project, and then d) to fold this back into IPinCH as it moves along. Continually bettering our practices is the ongoing principle. We also aim to generate and facilitate independent spaces of interchange between those who undertake IPinCH research, those who are seeking ways to protect and engage their peoples in IP or CH related actions, and those who wish to understand and produce effective, just change. CRCS serves in ways that other Working Groups and case studies suggest and see as useful, and with a goal of finding better practices, processes, political arrangements, and procedures for IP stewardship, in ways that may be of use to peoples, knowledge, political communities, and scholars who work with them.
Selected Activities and Output:
• Video and discussion on “A Call to Conversation about the Olympics!” posted on the IPinCH website (www.sfu.ca/ipinch/node/649) to invite team member discussion, and serve as a pilot study;
• WG and Steering Committee member Hollowell organized a workshop for Case Studies and research ethics (April 18?21, 2009) at the Prindle Institute for Ethics, DePauw University, Indiana, to collaboratively discuss guidelines for our community-based research component; and
• The group instigated the Flipcam Initiative to facilitate cross-project communication and collaboration—using video to document and share research experiences, knowledge, progress, and to generate discussion in interactive and creative forums. With the help of our partner, the World Archaeological Congress, IPinCH received a 2-for-1 grant to purchase Cisco Flip video cameras; So far 20 Flipcams have been distributed to the team.
Presentations:
Feltes, E. 2011. Reciprocity, Protocol, and the Research Relationship. Society for Applied Anthropology. Seattle, WA, Mar. 31.
La Salle, M. 2009. “C” is for...Community, Consultation, Capitalism, Colonization...and Collaboration. Canadian Anthropology Society and American Ethnological Society Meeting, Vancouver, BC, May 15.
Nicholas, G. 2008. Why “Collaboration” Means Much More Than “Working Together.” Plenary presentation, Society for American Archaeology Confernece, Vancouver, British Columbia, Mar. 26.
Noble B. 2009. Tripped up by Coloniality: Anthropologists as Agent-Tools of Indigenous People's Autonomy. Colloquium, University of Victoria, BC, Mar. 20.
Noble B. 2009. Anthropologists as Agent/Tools of Indigenous People's Autonomy: Insecurity, Research and the Unlimits of Relations. American Anthropological Association Conference, Philadelphia, Dec. 3.
Noble B. 2011. The “Settler Question” in Canada and the Challenge of Living Together in Common Lands. Canadian Anthropology Society. Fredericton, NB, May 12.
