Knowledge-land-scape - User contributions [en]

Cut 1 Abstract

2025-02-28T11:43:28Z

Camilo:

International Polar conservation is sometimes presented as a success-story of population recovery and international ‘science diplomacy’. What is often left unconsidered in these celebrations are the more local impacts on Inuit-polar bear relationships that have emerged from- sometimes controversial- decision-making in the past. In this cut, you are invited to trace along several co-created outputs that focus on the ongoing impacts of a polar bear hunting moratorium (2001-2004) and the substantial quota reductions implemented in the M’Clintock Channel Polar Bear Management Unit in Nunavut, Canada. These outputs center the experiences and testimonies of community members from Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, who report a loss of income, -culture, and possibilities for -inter-generational knowledge transfers. Gjoa Haven continues to seek recognition for impacts among the ongoing struggles to reconcile different ways of knowing and being across international conservation agreements and the territorial co-management regimes. This cut traces the ways in which researchers from the BearWatch project collaborated with the community to co-create, i) A 20 minute co-created motion graphic documentary, ii) An academic publication, iii) A webpage, and iv) A Testimonial Reading, with the purpose of having Gjoa Haven's “Voices of Thunder” echo everywhere.

<div class="next_choice">'''"Return"''' to Cut 1</div>

<span class="return link" data-page-title="Voices_of_Thunder" data-section-id="2" data-encounter-type="return">[[Voices of Thunder#Inuit and Polar Bears|Return to Cut 1:Voices of Thunder]]</span>

Covid-19

2025-01-28T10:30:54Z

Camilo: /* Kingston in Isolation */

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The den survey and TEK collection activities in Coral Harbour were planned for March and April, but were postponed due to COVID-19. The Hamlet of Coral Harbour requested outside visitors stay away the day before most of the BearWatch team was set to arrive in the Hamlet, and the BearWatch PI’s respected their wishes.

I had, however, travelled North a day early, and arrived in the community on exactly the day that the Covid-19 epidemic was declared pandemic. Non-resident travel bans came into effect in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories immediately, while physical distancing requirements within communities were put in place a little later.

=Spring Coral Harbour=

You have run into an “ice-pressure ridge”. Ice pressure ridges" are re-directive agential forces that perform the de/markations and im/possibilities of how you can move through the knowledge-land-scape. The ice pressure ridge remind us that agency is not a property that is possessed by individual readers, researchers and authors. In this case, it is the change of seasons that forms such an ice-pressure ridge. Despite immediately rescheduling my flight back to the South after I had landed in Coral Harbour, the wind took a turn and blizzards delayed my departure from Coral Harbour by multiple days.

Indeed, I had travelled up to Coral Harbour during early spring and the weather was changeable. Although the seasons provide for transformative possibilities in the North, they also bring with them uncertainties. In this case, uncertainties related to stranding in a remote-region, away from home, during the unfolding of a global response to a pandemic spread of a respiratory virus.

<div class="next_choice">Follow the "Ice-Pressure Ridge to understand the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on both the Bearwatch project and my own PhD trajectory.
</div>

=Covid 19 Personal Whereabouts=
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The ice pressure ridge remind us that agency is not a property that is possessed by individual readers, researchers and authors. Our ways of becoming knowledgeable always correspond intra-dependently with many other agential forces, both human and non-human.

When the spread of Covid-19 was declared a pandemic it shaped an ice-pressure ridge that was so immense, that it not so much required me to redirect- as it asked me to re-position. Both figuratively and literally.

=Making a New Home=

In 2019, at the start of my doctoral studies I relocated from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Katarokwi; Kingston, Ontario on the traditional homelands of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabek and Huron-Wendat nations.

I had never intended this move to Kingston to be only a launch pad for my research in Inuit Nunangat. I arrived ready to commit- aspiring to make Kingston my new home.

The first months after my arrival were filled with activities to learn about- and build a relationship with this land, the communities on it, and its stories. I immersed myself, for my hope was that this place could perhaps eventually become a new home for me.

Which it did, in multiple ways, over time.

The building of these relationships however became somewhat more complicated from 2020 onwards. The COVID-19 pandemic ended up uprooting me from all my home-bases, both Dutch and Canadian.

=The Netherlands in Isolation=

After the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, I initially chose to take shelter in my country of origin; the Netherlands. I stayed there for three months.

Having a high-risk parent, I did not take shelter in my family home in the Netherlands, and as a result I ended up renting an apartment both in Kingston and the Netherlands.

After the first two months of self-isolating in Amsterdam, I moved in with my sister and her family to save money. I slept on an airbed and shared a room with my 2-year old nephew. Despite a lack of privacy, it was nice to be close to family. I preferred it above being alone in an apartment.

[[File:Selfportrait during lockdown.jpg|thumb|Selfportrait during lockdown]]

Nevertheless, my commitment to be present, and make a new home in Canada- combined with the financial stresses of maintaining two home-bases- eventually drew me back to Ontario at the first seemingly reasonable opportunity.

=Kingston in Isolation=

The reality of returning to Canada as an international student, during the Covid-19 pandemic, was- while I acknowledge my privilege of being able to stay safe and healthy- rough for me.

Once back in Ontario, I was stuck in my tiny in Kingston apartment by myself, without a university campus to go to, or access to the regions in which I would have to conduct my fieldwork.

I wrote a lot.

In the year that followed, between my return to Kingston in the late Summer of 2020 and the Summer of 2021, I worked on what would eventually become the testimonial reading of Gjoa Haven’s voices of Thunder.

By June 2021 I had to return to the Netherlands for family matters. During this latter trip, I was offered an affordable apartment in Amsterdam- and decided, considering the ongoing uncertainty of Covid-19 pandemic to accept it. One month later, In July 2021, I received the news that we could travel to Nunavut again for fieldwork, and Canada slowly started to open up again.

From July 2021 onward, I continued my PhD in a state of flux. I would come to Canada for fieldwork, and spent an average of six weeks up North each trip. I would then stay, on average, another six weeks in Ontario. Usually I would spend up to twelve weeks back home in the Netherlands, before I would return again to Canada.

This rotation was possible because of being awarded a Canada Graduate Vanier Scholarship, and my decision in September 2020 to purchase a campervan: "Butter". As a result of these two events, my time in Canada took a completely different shape in comparison to what it had been before.

<div class="next_choice">
You have found a way to '''"Return to Cut 1"''' and learn more about the creative outputs, through which we were planning to share Gjoa Haven's Voices of Thunder.

You can also '''"Return to Cut 3"''', if you were redirected by Covid-19 during your first fieldtrip to Coral Harbour.

Alternatively, you can accept an '''"Invitation"''' to tag along and take a ride in "Butter". This ride will allow you to learn about the opportunities that Covid-19 brought to my research, before returning to Cut 1.</div>

<span class="return to-cut-1 link" data-page-title="Multiple Voices" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="return">[[Multiple Voices|Return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder]]</span>

<span class="return to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Wayfaring_the_BW_project" data-section-id="1" data-encounter-type="return">[[Wayfaring the BW project#Spring Coral Harbour 2020|Return to Cut 3: Spring Coral Harbour 2020]]</span>

<span class="redirective invitation link" data-page-title="Conference_Calls_from_the_Road" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="invitation">[[Conference_Calls_from_the_Road|Invitation: Thinking from the Road During Covid-19]]</span>

Drive across the Island

2025-01-28T10:21:14Z

Camilo: /* Drinking Coffee in the Community */

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Although Summer has transformed the landscape in a multi-coloured scene, there are still certain geographical points, vistas and landmarks that seem familiar to me as we drive around the island. Asking Leonard, he confirmed that some places had indeed been on the route he took me out on to hunt caribou in March 2020.

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<div class="next_choice">Head back toward the hamlet, to keep going. There are a couple of people in the community that have been assisting with setting up the remote TEK interviews last year. Get a better sense of their involvement with the research, and who they are.</div>

=Drinking Coffee in the Community=

During this first trip to Coral Harbour the after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted, I had a chance to meet up with people who I had only spoken to over zoom-connection before. These were the people that had installed technical set-up for the remote TEK mapping exercise, and had assisted Leonard in some of the land-based activities. Although we were only in Coral Harbour for 5 days, I tried to go out and meet as many people from the community as I could. Without the same 15-year pre-established community immersion that was present in Gjoa Haven, though, the options were a lot more limited, and centered around Leonard.

<div class="next_choice">After this 5 day trip to Coral Harbour, another trip to Gjoa Haven scheduled. This trip is quite exiting, as it will be the first opportunity to meet the Gjoa Haven HTA board members, in person. After months of ongoing conversations with about how to write an academic article that shares their "Voices of Thunder" over conference call and zoom, you will have some possibilities move forward with the creative research outputs.

Return to Cut 3 to visit Gjoa Haven</div>
<span class="return to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Wayfaring_the_BW_project" data-section-id="6" data-encounter-type="return">[[Wayfaring the BW project#Fieldtrip BW Team Gjoa Haven Summer 2021|Return to Cut 3: visit Gjoa Haven]]</span>

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2025-01-27T11:02:44Z

Camilo:

Collage and Zine-Making

2025-01-23T15:03:41Z

Camilo: /* Another Point of Beginning; Wayfaring Method */

After tracing along the BearWatch project for about two years, visiting Gjoa Haven twice and Coral Harbour three times, I had substantial notes, recordings, observations and literature to conduct an explorative exercise of meaning-making with. I decided to employ the creative method of collaging to conduct an initial analysis. My goal of this exercise was to figure out if any emergent themes and new connections and relationships would reveal themselves by employing this methodology.

Collaging is in essence about encounter and about the reconfiguring of meaning and matter when elements are brought together in new and unexpected ways. For me it was a way to see how all the material that had emerged through my responsive encounters in the communities and while thinking from the road in the South, related to the boundaries and the possibilities of ethical research practices (including knowledge conciliation) in accordance with the Ethical Space of Engagement (Ermine, 2007).

I ended up converting my collages into a shareable zine which I scanned and made digitally accessible below. I also printed 60 black and white copies for distribution to project partners and community collaborators. A very small edition of colour copies was kept for personal use.

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<div class="next_choice">The collaging and zine-making activity brought into focus new ways of thinking about making space. Follow the detour to cut 2, to read more about an artistic intervention I designed, based on my new insights.

"Keep going" to follow along with the next BearWatch project activities. The project is coming to an end, and the next two trips will be focussed on preparing and executing the final BearWatch workshops in both communities.</div>

<span class="detour link" data-page-title="Point of Beginning Mx. Science" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Point of Beginning Mx. Science|Detour Cut 2: Point of Beginning Mx. Science]]</span>

=Fall 2022 Coral Harbour=

To prepare for the final workshops the project had scheduled 10 days for me in Coral Harbour and 14 days in Gjoa Haven. Part of this trip was to set up a relationship with the school, as per the original terms of collaboration between Coral Harbour and the BearWatch project.

<div class="next_choice">Detour to cut 2 to read more about the final workshop in Coral Harbour. Or keep going to learn about my visits to the school in Coral Harbour</div>

<span class="detour to cut 2 link" data-page-title="Workshop Coral Harbour" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Workshop Coral Harbour#Design consultation pre-workshop & workshop Coral Harbour|Detour to Cut 2:Coral Harbour Workshop]]</span>

=School Visits=

I returned to Coral Harbour for 10 days and then to Gjoa Haven for 14 days in late fall of 2022, to prepare for the upcoming final workshops of the BearWatch project. And, in the case of Coral Harbour set up a connection with the local school as per the research design of the Coral Harbour, Queen's University collaboration.

I was invited by the teacher who I had met during my previous visits (Lisa Marie Thomas) to spent three consecutive days in her grade 4 class. During those days, I introduced myself, got to know the students and shared information about my homecountry; the Netherlands. BearWatch co-PI Peter van Coeverden de Groot joined for the 3rd day and taught a short lesson on polar bear monitoring. This third day was also used to pilot a "persona" I they intended to introduce at the final workshops; A more-than-human, playfull fictional character called Mx. Science. To read more on this persona, detour to Cut 2.

This pilot, was conducted with permission of the teacher and the school principle, and was taken up with overwhelming positivity by both the kids, teachers and principle.

The pre-gathering activities with the school principal and teacher led to inclusion of sessions within the final workshop design for school participants only. included Qamutik building and science-based bingo and presentations.

<div class="next_choice"> Detour to Cut 2 to learn more about Mx. science, or "Keep Going" </div>

<span class="detour link" data-page-title="Point of Beginning Mx. Science" data-section-id="1" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Point of Beginning Mx. Science#Nukatugaq - Mx. Science|Detour: "Nukatuqag" - "Mx. Science"]]</span>

= Wayfaring Calendar Pilot=

Although Leonard was not much available in the 10 days that were meant to prepare the final workshops, he did connect me to three experienced hunters of the community to conduct a participatory mapping exercise, that would feed into the development of a wayfaring method towards knowledge conciliation.

We collaborated on developing a pilot interview guide that engages IQ through a focus on process, values, and land-based ways of doing/being, rather than outcomes or measurable data. The resulting interview guide focusses on understanding the land-based practice of navigating main routes and tracks across Southampton island.

We selected a specific route towards ‘Qakutaap’ to conduct pilot interviews. Four interviews were conducted with experienced hunters and skilled navigators (Jonathan Emiltowik - Innuapik Ell - Harry Gibbons – Leonard Netser) in the week between 24 and 28 october, 2022.

The information that was shared was processed by Saskia into a paper prototype of a seasonal calendar which could potentially be further developed into a future communicative/planning tool for Southampton Island residents and Southern researchers seeking community-based collaborations on polar bear monitoring.

Image calendar prototype

= Another Point of Beginning; Wayfaring Method=

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You have reached "Another Point of Beginning". These are not conclusive endings to my research, but rather perform at the cusp of emergence: They are a story so-far. Some of these points mark the end of funding cycles or project activities. Or they mark the limitations and scope of this particular PhD dissertation. Others are trails, and tracks that have faded out, as they remained un-revisited. They however always mark one moment along an ongoing animate line of correspondence between multiple agencies, and they usually allow for continuing with another cut.

This is where we take account for our journey so far. This journey is always partial, and so are the insights we have built on our way. You can trace the path you have taken through this Knowledge-Land-Scape by clicking the "trace" bar in the upper left corner of your screen. It will allow you to account for some of the insights that your journey has given you. The map below shows you the full extent of wayfaring possibilities of the scape.

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As you might see, it looks like cut 3: Wayfaring the BearWatch project, has several ongoing tracks. In this case you have reached a story-so-far when it comes to the collaboration between Leonard Netser and the BearWatch project on the CIRNAC grant. While strong relationships might manage to bridge funding cycles, they are also subject to the im/possibilities of the research landscape and it apparatuses. My collaboration with Leonard has resulted in a prototype wayfaring calendar of the Southampton Island route to Qaquutaap, however we haven't been able to work out its potential to contribute to ethical research relationships in a Southampton Island wise polar bear survey. Up until recently our personal correspondence has fallen silent in the context of relational tensions that emerged between Leonard and Queen's University Bearwatch researchers, some of which are eluded upon in Cut 2.

<div class="next_choice"> Keep going with Cut 3. Travel to Gjoa Haven to prepare for the final BearWatch workshop there.</div>

<span class="redirective ice-pressure_ridge link" data-page-title="Arctic Travel" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="Ice-pressure_ridge">[[Arctic Travel|Ice-pressure ridge: Arctic Travel]]</span>

Workshop Invitations

2025-01-23T15:03:06Z

Camilo: /* Space for Gathering */

[[File:Invitation background a.png|thumb]]

Dear …,

We would like to hereby cordially invite you to the final gathering of our Genome Canada project; BearWatch, full name.

Why
In a rapidly changing, and sometimes politically contentious environment, we believe that meaningful engagement with Inuit communities in polar bear research is crucial to a sustainable future for both bears and humans. We take great pride in our collaboration with local communities with whom over the past years we have developed and implemented a new non-invasive genomic toolkit. This gathering will center around the introduction of this toolkit and its potential to policymakers, research advisors, governance representatives and Nunavummiut communities. The gathering also aims to provide a space for collective exploration. How to implement this tool? How to ethically conciliate Inuit knowledge and values with genomic science when implementing this tool? How to mutually agree upon ‘management’ decisions when coming together in difference?

How
We believe that the best way of coming together to explore creatively and with less restrictions, is to meet in spaces outside of the ones where day-to-day business-as-usual decisions are made. We invite you to gather with us in person, in the communities where much of the work has been developed and executed. We invite you to come as you are, both as an ‘expert’, ‘policymakers’ or ‘researcher’, but most of all as a human that deeply cares for polar bears and our ongoing relationship with them.

What
Do not expect a purely conventional presenter/listener format. This gathering will introduce the Genomic toolkit, present scientific findings and its community inclusive approach, however we seek to do so by generating creative engagement. Expect a hands-on, partially on-the-land experience where multiple senses are engaged and challenging topics are approached through interdisciplinary lenses and reflections.

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=Kumospace=

Apart form the community of Gjoa Haven, 28 people from the south were invited to the final workshop. Those that could not join, could participate remotely through a zoom-connection though a starlink satalite connection.

To provide a welcoming environment online, I had created a "kumospace" through which remote participant could find some research context and connect with each other outside of the plenary meetingspace in zoom.

<div class="next_choice">Fee free to check out this Kumospace [[https://www.kumospace.com/bearwatch2022]], or keep going - there is a lot to do, and time is running out. The community is on a boiling advisory, you need to organize toilets for the center, rides for the elders, arrange doorprizes, and set up an exhibition of Danny's work.

And those are just a few things that are still on your list.</div>

=Bingo=

A game of bingo, however, is the quintessential form of downtime in Gjoa Haven.

[[File:Bingo.jpg|thumb]]

<div class="next_choice">Have break from all that organizing.</div>

=Making posters=

At one point during the pre-workshop, I had addressed the issue of science communication. I wanted to know through what form of
presenting the science would be most accessible to the community.

The responses varied from 'brief', and 'just the main points', to the suggestion of not using jargon.
In response to the last point, I had asked about visuals: whether it would be helpful to have some main scientific concepts like "DNA", which do not have
an precise Inuktitut translation, visualized in a way that would be visible throughout the gathering.

The participants of the pre-workshop agreed that this would be helpful, "To get people up to speed, so they can jump right into the work".

Before the workshop we sat down with artist Danny Aaluk, interpretor Tuppittia Qitsualik, and biologists Marsha Branigan and Kimberley McCLintock to create drafts for the following posters.

[[File:Poster 1 sample collection.png|thumb]]
[[File:Poster 2 rna code.png|thumb]]
[[File:Poster 4 cels.png|thumb]]
[[File:Genes.png|thumb]]

=Scouting Igloo Site=

To build a Qaggiq, we needed to find a suitable spot, with the right kind of snow - close enough to the community so that people could join, and big enough so that we could have space to practice cutting blocks for the igloo as well.

As Jimmy and David would take the lead on building the Qaggiq, we went out to scout an appropriate site with them, Tuppittia and Percy, who had not been able to join the pre-workshop, but would be building the Qaggiq with us during the workshop.

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The snow was not good at most of the sites we checked. Eventually however, we did find a spot close to town ,and David decided we could build an igloo instead of a qaggiq - which probably also was a better fit for the time we had available, and the hours of sunlight at that time of the season.

=Country Food=

With the gathering coming up, one of the most crucial things still had to be organized: the food. Everyone asks who will be cooking the food. So it's important to ask the right person.

[[File:Menu.jpg|thumb]]

<div class="next_choice">You find the right person for the job. Elizabeth Avalok, has the know-how and the skills to cook for big groups. Everything that is cooked in the community, is organized by her - and people enjoy her food. </div>

=Space for Gathering=

Finally, you need a space for the gathering.

In your search you end up discovering the perfect spot. The "name" center. The size is perfect for smaller groups, while still being able to hold 60 people, if they would show up in such numbers. There are comfortable couches and a small kitchen, as well as facilities to brew pots of coffee and tea. We would have to fill up the oil for the heaters ourselves though, and there is no running water. We would also have to bring in a lot of chairs. But what it lacks in amenities, it facilitates in spirit. The center is filled with pictures, object and artefacts of community elders, and people assed a long time ago.

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<span class="pop-up landmark link" data-page-title="Preparation" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="Landmark">[[Preparation|Landmark: Preparation]]</span>

Workshop Invitations

2025-01-23T14:57:12Z

Camilo: /* Space for Gathering */

[[File:Invitation background a.png|thumb]]

Dear …,

We would like to hereby cordially invite you to the final gathering of our Genome Canada project; BearWatch, full name.

Why
In a rapidly changing, and sometimes politically contentious environment, we believe that meaningful engagement with Inuit communities in polar bear research is crucial to a sustainable future for both bears and humans. We take great pride in our collaboration with local communities with whom over the past years we have developed and implemented a new non-invasive genomic toolkit. This gathering will center around the introduction of this toolkit and its potential to policymakers, research advisors, governance representatives and Nunavummiut communities. The gathering also aims to provide a space for collective exploration. How to implement this tool? How to ethically conciliate Inuit knowledge and values with genomic science when implementing this tool? How to mutually agree upon ‘management’ decisions when coming together in difference?

How
We believe that the best way of coming together to explore creatively and with less restrictions, is to meet in spaces outside of the ones where day-to-day business-as-usual decisions are made. We invite you to gather with us in person, in the communities where much of the work has been developed and executed. We invite you to come as you are, both as an ‘expert’, ‘policymakers’ or ‘researcher’, but most of all as a human that deeply cares for polar bears and our ongoing relationship with them.

What
Do not expect a purely conventional presenter/listener format. This gathering will introduce the Genomic toolkit, present scientific findings and its community inclusive approach, however we seek to do so by generating creative engagement. Expect a hands-on, partially on-the-land experience where multiple senses are engaged and challenging topics are approached through interdisciplinary lenses and reflections.

[[File:1.png|thumb]]
[[File:2.png|thumb]]
[[File:3.png|thumb]]

=Kumospace=

Apart form the community of Gjoa Haven, 28 people from the south were invited to the final workshop. Those that could not join, could participate remotely through a zoom-connection though a starlink satalite connection.

To provide a welcoming environment online, I had created a "kumospace" through which remote participant could find some research context and connect with each other outside of the plenary meetingspace in zoom.

<div class="next_choice">Fee free to check out this Kumospace [[https://www.kumospace.com/bearwatch2022]], or keep going - there is a lot to do, and time is running out. The community is on a boiling advisory, you need to organize toilets for the center, rides for the elders, arrange doorprizes, and set up an exhibition of Danny's work.

And those are just a few things that are still on your list.</div>

=Bingo=

A game of bingo, however, is the quintessential form of downtime in Gjoa Haven.

[[File:Bingo.jpg|thumb]]

<div class="next_choice">Have break from all that organizing.</div>

=Making posters=

At one point during the pre-workshop, I had addressed the issue of science communication. I wanted to know through what form of
presenting the science would be most accessible to the community.

The responses varied from 'brief', and 'just the main points', to the suggestion of not using jargon.
In response to the last point, I had asked about visuals: whether it would be helpful to have some main scientific concepts like "DNA", which do not have
an precise Inuktitut translation, visualized in a way that would be visible throughout the gathering.

The participants of the pre-workshop agreed that this would be helpful, "To get people up to speed, so they can jump right into the work".

Before the workshop we sat down with artist Danny Aaluk, interpretor Tuppittia Qitsualik, and biologists Marsha Branigan and Kimberley McCLintock to create drafts for the following posters.

[[File:Poster 1 sample collection.png|thumb]]
[[File:Poster 2 rna code.png|thumb]]
[[File:Poster 4 cels.png|thumb]]
[[File:Genes.png|thumb]]

=Scouting Igloo Site=

To build a Qaggiq, we needed to find a suitable spot, with the right kind of snow - close enough to the community so that people could join, and big enough so that we could have space to practice cutting blocks for the igloo as well.

As Jimmy and David would take the lead on building the Qaggiq, we went out to scout an appropriate site with them, Tuppittia and Percy, who had not been able to join the pre-workshop, but would be building the Qaggiq with us during the workshop.

[[File:David.png|thumb]]

The snow was not good at most of the sites we checked. Eventually however, we did find a spot close to town ,and David decided we could build an igloo instead of a qaggiq - which probably also was a better fit for the time we had available, and the hours of sunlight at that time of the season.

=Country Food=

With the gathering coming up, one of the most crucial things still had to be organized: the food. Everyone asks who will be cooking the food. So it's important to ask the right person.

[[File:Menu.jpg|thumb]]

<div class="next_choice">You find the right person for the job. Elizabeth Avalok, has the know-how and the skills to cook for big groups. Everything that is cooked in the community, is organized by her - and people enjoy her food. </div>

=Space for Gathering=

Finally, you need a space for the gathering.

In your search you end up discovering the perfect spot. The "name" center. The size is perfect for smaller groups, while still being able to hold 60 people, if they would show up in such numbers. There are comfortable couches and a small kitchen, as well as facilities to brew pots of coffee and tea. We would have to fill up the oil for the heaters ourselves though, and there is no running water. We would also have to bring in a lot of chairs. But what it lacks in amenities, it facilitates in spirit. The center is filled with pictures, object and artefacts of community elders, and people assed a long time ago.

[[File:DSC01106.jpg|thumb]]
[[File:DSC01105.jpg|thumb]]
[[File:DSC01100.jpg|thumb]]

<span class="Pop-up landmark link" data-page-title="Preparation" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="Landmark">[[Preparation|Landmark: Preparation]]</span>

Camilo:

2025-01-15T22:20:30Z

Camilo: /* Covid-19 Remote Interviews */

=Covid-19 Remote Interviews=

One year later after I had left Coral Harbour, by March 2021, the project PI’s reported to have adapted their strategy to the Covid-19 restrictions on travel from the South and to the national public health social distancing practices in force. The polar bear denning surveys that had been planned for the region, had been executed under local leadership, and methods to compile TEK had been adapted together with Co-PI Leonard Netser to allow Southern BearWatch team members to “participate remotely.”

Despite the fact that much effort, technology and resources were put into the adaptation of these TEK interviews to take place with involvement from the South, the interviews were dis-continued after one pilot interview and the first interview with a Coral Harbour elder. The material circumstances required to record and livestream these interviews proved to be too disruptive for the task at hand.

<div class="next_choice">You have bumped into an ice-pressure ridge. It's a small one through, and you can easily cross it. Follow it nevertheless to learn more about how the material aspects of our Covid-19 adaptations interfered with the dynamics between interviewer and interviewee. Understand why it was considered unworkable, and why a cup of tea was suggested as a replacement technology. Alternatively, you can consider the pilot recording in which Leonard shares his detailed knowledge on Southampton Island a succesfull outcome, and keep going.</div>

<span class="redirective ice-pressure_ridge link" data-page-title="Tech,_TEK_and_Tea" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="Ice-pressure_ridge">[[Tech, TEK and Tea|Ice-pressure ridge: Tech, TEK and Tea]]</span>

=Fieldtrip BW Team Coral Harbour Summer 2021=

Although collaborations had already taken place remotely between local PI Leonard Netser and the PI’s from the South, it was only in the Summer of 2021 that the respective team members from the North and the South got to meet each other for the first time within the community.
A short 5-day introductory fieldtrip was organized to visit Coral Harbour. During this trip several BearWatch researchers presented the proposed research activities that were upcoming to the Coral Harbour HTA and other interested community members. The time was also used to set up material equipment for a simple local lab to support further community lead sampling efforts, to be conducted over late 2021 and early 2022. The trip was finally used to visit some of the sampling areas that were pointed out by Leonard and elder [name] during the TEK mapping interviews of 2020.

<div class="next_choice">Tag along, and get a sense of Southampton Island in the Summer. Otherwise, move straight ahead to the second leg of this fieldtrip, towards Gjoa Haven.</div>

<span class="redirective invitation link" data-page-title="Drive across the Island" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="invitation">[[Drive across the Island|Invitation: Drive across the Island]]</span>

=Fieldtrip BW Team Gjoa Haven Summer 2021=

This fieldtrip to Gjoa Haven was the first opportunity after Covid-19 restrictions to revisit the community since the polar bear quota restriction impact workshops and TEK collection workshops that were organized in 2019.

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This visit was used to organize two TEK sessions, as to receive the required feedback for finishing the envisioned peer-reviewed publication on Gjoa Haven polar bear TEK (Arlidge, 2022). It was also used to present results of several other graduate students that had been working on the analysis of samples towards developing various elements of the BearWatch bio-monitoring toolkit. This visit also provided opportunities for me to collaborate in person on how to proceed with the publication and dissemination of Gjoa Haven's Voices of Thunder regarding the polar bear quota restriction impacts.

=Voices of Thunder Meetings=

Being physically present in the community, presented opportunities to co-create an audio-visual productions with multiple community members, in addition to discussing and revising the latest iteration of the academic paper, that I had started to write.

<div class="next_choice">You find yourself at a cross-road with many tracks.

Choose carefully, as some of these tracks might lead you down different cuts, with a low chance of returning to this particular cut that traces the unfolding of the BearWatch project.

If you turn left, for example, you can follow a tracks along the processes of co-creating the animated graphic documentary and other video projects that I ended up making with several community-members of Gjoa Haven in the Summer of 2021 - this is part of Cut 2: Aesthetic Action.

You also can take a shortcut towards the final animated documentary and other audio-visual outputs that we created to generate attention to the experiences of Gjoa Haven’s residents around their severely reduced polar bear quota. For this, cut to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder

Neither track seem to return to this cut anytime soon, however.

Alternatively, you could stick around in the community, where you are invited to help with logistical chores around town. This is a helpful way to get to know people, and it will be much easier than in Coral Harbour.

Otherwise, you could just move onward with the BearWatch project. Either keep going, so that you can return to Gjoa Haven in the spring of 2022 and present some of the work that was done.

Or by take a small detour that passes by the community-lead sampling efforts done in Southampton Island in March 2022.</div>

<span class="detour to cut 2 link" data-page-title="Point of Beginning Animated Graphic Documentary" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Point of Beginning Animated Graphic Documentary|Cut 2: Co-creating a Graphic Documentary]]</span>

<span class="detour to cut 1 link" data-page-title="Multiple Voices" data-section-id="3" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Multiple Voices#Voices of Thunder Animated Graphic Documentary|Cut 1: Voices of Thunder Animated Graphic Documentary]]</span>

<span class="redirective invitation link" data-page-title="Chores Around Town" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="invitation">[[Chores Around Town|Invitation: Help Out With Chores Around Town]]</span>

<span class="detour to cut 3 link" data-page-title=" Community-lead Sampling CH 2021" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Community-lead Sampling CH 2021|Detour: Community-Lead Sampling CH 2022]]</span>

=Meetings Spring 2022 Gjoa Haven=

In the spring of 2022 I returned to Gjoa Haven by myself. I was welcomed "home" immediately, and many people had remembered seeing me around town the previous year. This visit allowed me to screen an intermediate version of the Voices of Thunder documentary for the Gjoa Haven HTA and co-create some missing material for the final edit with Danny Aaluk, a Gjoa Haven based artist who I had collaborated closely with during my previous visit.

I was also able to screen two other videos that I had shot with several community-members, after which we shared bannock and soup, prepared by Danny Aaluk's mother, and had a collective discussion on the cultural meaning of the songs and dances that the people had performed in the videos. Finally, I took the opportunity to collaborate on the translations of the website, timeline and Voices of Thunder documentary, and interview some of the project's main collaborators to gain some insights on how they would prefer the BearWatch final workshops, that are scheduled for the end of the year, to be designed and organized.

<div class="next_choice">You have started noticing how multiple people connect the use of certain words and song to mental pictures of the land during your conversations with them.

Check out the landmark to your left to learn more about this connection.

You can also keep going, this will take you to Coral Harbour where you are hoping to talk more about a model of knowledge conciliation that is based on wayfinding and wayfaring with Leonard Netser. You also want to further discuss his priorities for the project and its final workshop.

Before you go, you have an opportunity to go check on seal dens with George. Take the invitation, to learn more about his methods of moving through the land and ice. </div>

<span class="Pop-up landmark link" data-page-title="Song, Dance and Oral Storytelling" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="Landmark">[[Song, Dance and Oral Storytelling|Landmark: Song, Dance and Oral Storytelling"]]</span>

<span class="redirective invitation link" data-page-title="Checking Seal Dens" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="invitation">[[Checking Seal Dens|Invitation: Checking Seal Dens]]</span>

=Meetings Spring 2022 Coral Harbour=

I returned to Coral Harbour with high hopes of working with co-PI Leonard Netser on the development of a knowledge conciliation approach that would be based on western philosophies of knowing through wayfaring, and Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit on land-based wayfinding. We had started talking about such an approach after my last visit in the late summer of 2021 in our personal correspondences, and Leonard was very supportive and interested in the idea. He had told me that coming back in the spring would allow be good timing for him. I had furthermore anticipated that travelling to Coral Harbour alone, would also provide for a slower pace and less pressure from other project related activities like sampling.

<div class="next_choice"> An unexpected ice-pressure ridge has, however, emerged on this path. We can't keep going. Leonard is engaged elsewhere and needs to move a cabin before the spring ice becomes too unsafe to travel across.</div>

<span class="redirective ice-pressure_ridge link" data-page-title="Seasonal Activities" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="Ice-pressure_ridge">[[Seasonal Activities|Ice pressure ridge: Seasonal Activities]]</span>

2025-01-15T21:51:42Z

Camilo: /* Covid-19 */

The land invites one to move away from anthropocentric tellings - towards narrations of becoming knowledgeable in company with the seasons, snow, ice, wind, lichens, caribou and many more. Such stories leave room for us as researchers, but aren’t about us.

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Acknowledgements

An explicit note of acknowledgement for this cut goes out in particular to George Konana, in Gjoa Haven, and Leonard Netser in Coral Harbour. Both men have taken me out on the land, the sea and the ice on multiple occasions between 2020-2023. They patiently took time to introduce me to their land and explained how they found their way in various ways and under multiple conditions. Although they graciously responded to my many questions, I am most grateful to their valuable lessons of guiding me to tag along and just be present for the ride.

=Becoming a Wayfarer=

My name is Saskia de Wildt. This cut, focusses on my Phd research on the challenge of conciliating western sciences and IQ in community-based polar bear monitoring research. More precisely, it traces my processes as I asks the question of what it means to practice knowledge conciliation under guidance of the principles of the ‘Ethical Space of Engagement’ (ESE, Ermine, 2007) and the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) Protocols for Equitable and Ethical Engagement (EEE, 2020) rather than based on data-driven needs.

<div class="next_choice">To engage with such a sensitizing question, entails- as will become clear- multiple shift. A shift of positioning; from distanced observer or reader to becoming an entangled “subject” – and a practical shift from operating based on fixed principles, to a practice of ongoing negotiations and ethical encounter. As you make your way through this knowledge-land-scape, this shift will also apply to you . Depending on the choices you make, you might shift from being a reader of my research, to becoming a wayfarer alongside me.</div>

=Knowledge Conciliation in Polar Bear Research=

There is little disagreement regarding polar bears as a species of importance - whether as a keystone predator, a sentinel of changing Arctic environments, a source of sustaining more-than-human relations, or as sources of income through guided sports hunts. The reconciliation of such differences of valuing and knowing polar bears within polar bear management is, on the other hand, less straightforward. Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ, the Inuit way of knowing and being in the world, or “that what Inuit have always known to be true”) considers humans and polar bears, for example, as traditionally co-existing in a relationship of larger land-based entanglements that requires harmony and balance. Western formulations of wildlife conservation, on the other hand, typically, conceptualize polar bears as a species in need of human intervention to ensure their survival. The importance of reconciling such seemingly opposite ways in which human/bear relationships matter, has increasingly been recognized in Canada.

This is partly the result of the efforts of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC), amongst which their reconciliatory principles and their 94 Calls to Action. It is, however, arguably more directly the result of Inuit trailblazing efforts to formalize Territorial Land Claims Agreements in wildlife co-management systems across Inuit Nunangat: the Inuit homelands, the preferred term for specifically, the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunavik (Northern Québec) and Nunatsiavut (Northern Labrador) in Canada).

The polar bear co-management regime in the Nunavut Settlement Area, for example, is based on the 1993 Nunavut Land Claim Agreement (NLCA), that states that “Inuit must always take part in decisions on wildlife”, while “the guiding principles and concepts of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) are to be described and made an integral part of the management of wildlife and habitat.” Despite such formalized co-management, tensions remain. Data-driven conservation, management and monitoring of polar bears in Inuit Nunangat, while necessary to address significant data gaps on population trends and a rapidly changing Arctic environment, has also proven itself a challenging environment for the conciliation of different ways of knowing and being.

<div class="next_choice">This cut explores the methodology of wayfaring as a potential transformative ethical practice of knowledge conciliation. It centers the unfolding of a particular research project: ‘Bearwatch: Monitoring Impacts of Arctic Climate Change using Polar Bears, Genomics and Traditional Ecological Knowledge’ – hereafter referred to as ‘Bearwatch’. Excerpts of project reports serve as a guiding cut, while you, I, and multiple others may thread our own corresponding paths alongside it. </div>

=Wayfaring as a Sensitizing Method=

Knowledge conciliation in polar bear monitoring matters. Hunting polar bears is an important part of Inuit culture. It facilitates inter-generational knowledge transmission of on-the-land skills, and provides a significant source of income within Inuit mixed-economies (Dowsley, 2008; Wenzel, 2011). Getting the management quota ‘’right’’ is thus not so much only a question of ensuring Inuit rights, and sustainable harvest of polar bear populations, it’s also a question of Inuit day-to-day safety, relational harmony in line with IQ, and ensuring ongoing access to the land.

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My wayfaring approach, as will become clear, does not attempt to formulate a new, alternative, or innovative means of knowledge conciliation across cultural differences, nor does it lead to conclusive take-aways about ethical knowledge conciliation. It instead unsettles fixed ideas about “knowledge” towards a “coming to know”, and instead of “knowledge integration” it performs the idea of “worldly encounters”.

The wind leaves snowdrifts in particular directions across the land, and ripples across the surface of the water. Traditional trade routes, and seasonal tracks cut lines throughout the land, in the direction of specific landmarks or places with abundant wildlife – even if they are only visible to the trained eye or during certain seasons. Marine currents create pressure ridges, cracks and gaps, depending on the direction the currents push the ice above them. These cuts and movements draw new lines across the region, and intra-act with others; sometimes redirecting, and other times creating other, new patterns for the remainder of the season. Each of these lines emerges, responds and intra-acts as one with each other. The lines we draw and the traces we leave in the environment differ, depending on the nature of our movements. The knowledge that is accumulated along such lines, in turn, also differs.

<div class="next_choice"> "Keep going' to learn more </div>

=The BearWatch Project=

Bearwatch ran between 2015 and 2023, during which it sought to meaningfully engage IQ in its development of a new non-invasive genomic polar bear monitoring toolkit. The project was a collaboration between northern communities in the Nunavut Settlement Region and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, HTAs in Gjoa Haven and Coral Harbor, the Inuvialuit Game Council, the governments of Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon, the Canadian Rangers, and researchers and students from multiple universities across Canada and beyond.

Most researchers and policymakers in the field of polar bear science more generally – and on the BearWatch project particularly – are trained in a variety of natural science disciplines of the western academic institute, or they are Inuit knowledge and rights holders. I, myself, am a white, queer, settler-guest researcher from the Netherlands with a background in the applied arts and social sciences, which has required me to negotiate and navigate my own way of meaning making alongside many of the project’s activities.

<div class="next_choice">This particular cut, in turn, allows you thread your own way of becoming knowledgeable about how the BearWatch project may, or may not, have come to matter in terms of ethical engagement and meaningful knowledge conciliation.

But before you keep going, notice that you have stumbled upon a Vista. This Vista is a viewpoint, it will help you orient. It is called "The Ethical Space of Engagement". Perhaps it will help you direct your course along the way.</div>

<span class="pop-up vista link" data-page-title="The_ESE_(process)" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="Vista">[[The_ESE_(process)|Vista: The ESE]]</span>

=Decision-making=

You now have a choice to make. Will you trace the most straightforward path across the BearWatch project, engaging mostly with the project reports of BearWatch? Or will you start threading your own intra-dependent way alongside the project and me?

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<div class="next_choice">It is important to determine the boundaries and possibilities for wayfaring before you continue. If you have not yet checked out the terms of engagement of this knowledge-land-scape, you should seek them out - find them on the bottom right corner of your screen.

Otherwise, it might be helpful to look up the meaning of “intra” dependency, as opposed to “interdependency” before you keep going.

If you choose to keep following this cut instead, you will jump straight into the BearWatch project- beginning with the TEK workshops that were held in the community of Gjoa Haven in 2019 as to inform a feasibility study on future community-driven polar bear fecal sample collection.</div>

<span class="detour to cut 3 link" data-page-title="Intra-dependency" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[intra-dependency|Detour: look up the meaning of "intra-dependency"]]</span>

=TEK Workshops=

The BearWatch project was designed to include a “Genomics and its Environmental, Economic, Ethical, Legal and Social aspects (GE3LS)” component (BearWatch research proposal, 2016 p.30-31).

Three TEK mapping workshops were co-designed with the HTA of Gjoa Haven, as part of this GE3Ls strategy to ‘identify TEK gaps’ and ‘fill them’. The temporal and spatial polar bear TEK that was collected, was processed and published by Scott Arlidge, who also participated in the project. The TEK that was collected ‘provides a georeferenced knowledge base that displays information on polar bears including harvest sites, bear movement, denning sites, and hunter knowledge areas’ (Arlidge, 2022 p.13). This knowledge is shared in his thesis as i) ‘a historical record of polar bear knowledge for the community of Gjoa Haven’; and ii) ‘as a guide to areas of high polar bear activity for future targeted polar bear monitoring effort’s’ (Arlidge, 2022 p.ii).

[[File:Mapping TEK Gjoa Haven 2019.jpg|thumb|Participants discussing during BearWatch TEK workshop 2019]]

<div class="next_choice">You have taken a moment to sit down and read Arlidge's thesis. As you are about to check out what Genome Canada has written on their website about GE3LS, someone brings up the existence of a nearby shipwreck: "Knowledge Co-production”. They suggest you go check it out to get a deeper understanding of the im/possibilities around bringing IQ together with western sciences. You weigh your options, as there is also another workshop lined up. The Gjoa Haven Gjoa Haven Hunters and Trappers Association has urgently been trying to get the BearWatch researchers to turn their focus towards the available polar bear harvest quota. After two generations of hardly being able to hunt polar bears, the Gjoa Haven HTA have asked the researchers of the BearWatch project to help them seek recognition for the loss of income, loss of culture, and loss of intergenerational knowledge transfer.

Keep going to attend the impacts workshop. Or,

Detour, to continue your research on GE3LS. Or,

Go check out the "Knowledge Co-production" Wrecksite</div>

<span class="detour to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="GE3Ls" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[GE3Ls|Detour to Cut 3: Read more about GE3Ls]]</span>

<span class="pop-up wrecksite link" data-page-title="Knowledge Co-production" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="wrecksite">[[Knowledge Co-production|Wrecksite: Knowledge Co-production]]</span>

=Workshops Summer 2019=

[[File:Mapping TEK Gjoa Haven 2019.jpg|thumb|Participants discussing during BearWatch TEK workshop 2019]]

The impacts workshops were advertised over the radio in both English and Inuktitut (Inuit language), and interested individuals signed up through the HTA. One workshop was held May 15, 2019 in the evening with 10 participants and one on May 16 in the morning with 11 participants. These participants comprised mainly older male community members, many of whom had hunted, or still hunt polar bears. There were two female participants in each workshop. Three of the participants were between the ages of 20 and 40, with the remainder older. These two workshops focused specifically on the impacts of polar bear hunting quota reductions on the community. The workshop questions were co-designed by the BW academic researchers and HTA representatives and were asked in both English and Inuktitut to prompt discussion. The format however remained open-ended, meaning that "off-script" discussions were encouraged during the workshop, and occasionally specific members were asked to participate in answering particular questions because of their connection to the issue, as identified in previous interviews or by other community members. Two BW researchers and an interpreter would ask the pre-designed questions and prompt discussion, while a third BW researcher made notes. Both workshops were audio-recorded.

<div class="next_choice">The BearWatch PI's and Gjoa Haven HTA-board want to use the recordings of these impacts workshop as primary materials for an academic paper. They ask you to write it, even though you have just joined the project and have not yet set foot into the community. Although you understand that writing “about” other people’s experiences doesn’t exactly sound ethical, you have little time and need to keep going. Your first fieldwork trip to Coral Harbour, Nunavut is upcoming, and you need to prepare for that. Besides, the Gjoa Haven HTA wants a publication, maybe there is no need to complicate things further?

What to do?

If you choose to not engage further with the community of Gjoa Haven for now, "Keep going" to trace cut 3: the unfolding of the BearWatch project, and prepare for your first fieldtrip to Coral Harbour. Or,

Stay with the trouble and explore in what ways the “Politics of recognition” complicates such writing practices.</div>

<span class="pop-up stay-with-the-trouble link" data-page-title=" Politics_of_Recognition " data-encounter-type="Stay with the trouble">[[Politics of Recognition|Stay with the trouble: The Politics of Recognition]]</span>

=Coral Harbour First Trip 2020=

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Alongside funding from Genome Canada, the project PI’s also successfully applied to the Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada/ World Wildlife Fund to fund ‘traditional knowledge research and a denning survey in Coral Harbour, Nunavut’ (Schedule H, 2020, March 31. This intended study included documenting polar bear TEK in Coral Harbour, surveys of vacated dens by locals to collect a variety of samples and data, and the initiation of a collaborative effort with the high school to train students in land-based surveys.

=Covid-19=

The den survey and TEK collection activities in Coral Harbour were planned for March and April, but were postponed due to COVID-19. The Hamlet of Coral Harbour requested outside visitors stay away the day before most of the BearWatch team was set to arrive in the Hamlet, and the BearWatch PI’s respected their wishes.
I had, however, travelled North a day early, and arrived in the community on exactly the day that the Covid-19 epidemic was declared pandemic. Non-resident travel bans came into effect in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories immediately, while physical distancing requirements within communities were put in place a little later.

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<span class="redirective ice-pressure_ridge link" data-page-title="Spring_Coral_Harbour" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="ice-pressure_ridge">[[Spring Coral Harbour|Ice-pressure ridge: Immediately book a flight back]]</span>

Wayfaring the BearWatch Project

2025-01-15T21:51:15Z

Camilo: /* Workshops Summer 2019 */