Hi Alyssa this is fascinating, thanks for sharing! Usually I think of social ecological frameworks as a sense-making framework (and that’s about all I do with ecology in the present time). The perspective you have shared to me is unique and intriguing. Are you familiar with the work of folks in the Turtle Island Institute
where Melanie Goodchild (Anishinaabe) has recently published a paper
https://jabsc.org/index.php/jabsc/article/view/577
on Relational Systems Thinking… I wonder if there might be something there for you and your work…?
And I have been learning/excited for some time after reading the concept of kincentric ecology from Enrique Salmón’s work:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2641288?origin=JSTOR-pdf
Would to stay connected with what you’re doing and learning as it may be related to some work I’m involved with regarding ‘regenerative food systems,’ that includes prominently/centrally indigenous ways of knowing…