From the margins to the core: village and community scientists should increasingly shape the future of ethnobiology and ethnoecology
Andrea Pieroni, Animekh Hazarika, Mousaab Alrhmoun, Cheikh Yebouk, Evanthia Dina, Ajmal Khan Manduzai, Syed Waseem Gillani, Besnik Rexhepi, Irfan Ullah, Shujat Ali, Dipak Khadka, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Edoardo Suriano, Jimlea Nadezhda Mendoza, Renata Soukand, Raivo Kalle · 2026
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Andrea Pieroni and co-authors argue, in an editorial published in 2026, that village and community scholars should move from the edges to the center of ethnobiology. The field studies how people know and use their living surroundings, and it was born in rural and Indigenous communities. Yet credit and authority still sit in city universities.
The authors, many raised in villages or migrant communities, call local knowledge a science in its own right, with its own logic and rigor. They ask for community scholars to lead at every stage, from framing questions to sharing results. Mere inclusion in outside projects is not enough. Without the shift, they warn, the field stays detached from the realities it studies.
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| CREATOR | Andrea Pieroni, Animekh Hazarika, Mousaab Alrhmoun, Cheikh Yebouk, Evanthia Dina, Ajmal Khan Manduzai, Syed Waseem Gillani, Besnik Rexhepi, Irfan Ullah, Shujat Ali, Dipak Khadka, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Edoardo Suriano, Jimlea Nadezhda Mendoza, Renata Soukand, Raivo Kalle |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |