Knowledge co-production in BearWatch - Revision history

Saskia at 13:46, 26 February 2025

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	Most of the IQ and TEK that had been collected in the project was part of an informative strategy to determine sampling locations in the field, rather than part of a decisive strategy where Inuit Knowledge is engaged across multiple stages of research decision making. Interviews with elders and hunters had revolved around observations and spatial demarcations under the nominator of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) marked on maps.		Most of the IQ and TEK that had been collected in the project was part of an informative strategy to determine sampling locations in the field, rather than part of a decisive strategy where Inuit Knowledge is engaged across multiple stages of research decision making. Interviews with elders and hunters had revolved around observations and spatial demarcations under the nominator of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) marked on maps.

	This observation is not to discount the insights, observations, and contributions to research that such TEK can provide for monitoring research. However, as a process of meaningfully engaging with Inuit knowledge on its own terms, beyond a data-driven focus, this narrow focus on TEK falls short. Instead of approaching knowledge conciliation as a question of data, it should be considered as an invitation to rethink the ~~basic assumptions, values, and practices underlying~~ contemporary processes of research and polar bear management.		This observation is not to discount the insights, observations, and contributions to research that such TEK can provide for monitoring research. However, as a process of meaningfully engaging with Inuit knowledge on its own terms, beyond a data-driven focus, this narrow focus on TEK falls short. Instead of approaching knowledge conciliation as an epistemological question of data, it should be considered as an invitation to rethink the ontological bassumptions that underly contemporary processes of research and polar bear management.
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Saskia at 19:54, 29 January 2025

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	The start of my PhD trajectory coincided with a particularly ‘’messy’’ moment in the project- where a change of project partners, -co-funders and -Principle Investigators had required the project to pivot significantly. As a result, many of the research activities that were originally scheduled as part of the social science aspect of the project did not take place as planned. As a consequence of such changes, the project acquired a more natural-science heavy profile than I had anticipated before joining the Bearwatch project. Most of the IQ and TEK that had been collected in the project was part of an informative strategy to determine sampling locations in the field, rather than part of a decisive strategy where Inuit Knowledge is engaged across multiple stages of research decision making. Interviews with elders and hunters had revolved around observations and spatial demarcations under the nominator of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) marked on maps.		Most of the IQ and TEK that had been collected in the project was part of an informative strategy to determine sampling locations in the field, rather than part of a decisive strategy where Inuit Knowledge is engaged across multiple stages of research decision making. Interviews with elders and hunters had revolved around observations and spatial demarcations under the nominator of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) marked on maps.

	~~Such strategies lead~~ to ~~Indigenous knowledge being seen~~ as ~~simply~~ a ~~new form~~ of "data" - ~~to be incorporated into research and existing management bureaucracies. The choices that were made within the project as part of~~ this ~~desire to ‘integrate’~~ TEK ~~into western-based sciences and the subsequent processes~~ of ~~analysing the gathered~~ knowledge, ~~have led~~ to the ~~disconnection~~ of ~~such TEK from IQ -~~ and ~~has therefore lost the distinguishable characteristics that would make this TEK, “traditionally” Inuit~~.		This observation is not to discount the insights, observations, and contributions to research that such TEK can provide for monitoring research. However, as a process of meaningfully engaging with Inuit knowledge on its own terms, beyond a data-driven focus, this narrow focus on TEK falls short. Instead of approaching knowledge conciliation as a question of data, it should be considered as an invitation to rethink the basic assumptions, values, and practices underlying contemporary processes of research and polar bear management.
			[[File:Slideshow knowledge is creation.png\|border]]

	This observation is not to discount the insights, observations, and contributions to research that such knowledge can provide for monitoring research. However, as a process of meaningfully engaging with Inuit knowledge on its own terms, beyond a data-driven focus, this narrow focus on TEK falls short. Instead of approaching knowledge conciliation as a question of data, Indigenous knowledges should be considered as an invitation to rethink the basic assumptions, values, and practices underlying contemporary processes of research and polar bear management. Many Indigenous people, for example, share an understanding of knowledge not as simply understanding relationships within Creation, but rather as Creation itself (McGregor 2004). Knowledge is something one does.

	~~[[File:Slideshow~~ knowledge is ~~creation~~.~~png\|border]]~~		<div class="next_choice"> One of the ways with which the BearWatch research have started to respond to the challenge of knowledge co-production beyond a data-driven agenda, is by exploring the possibilities of “wayfaring”.

			'''"Take a Detour to Cut 2"''' if you are curious to find out more about a small pilot study that we have done.


			Otherwise,


	~~<div class=~~"~~next_choice~~"> One of the ways with which the BearWatch research have started to respond to the challenge of knowledge co-production beyond a data-driven agenda, is by exploring the possibilities of “wayfaring”. If you are curious, you can take a detour to find out more about a small pilot study that we have done. Otherwise, return to our testimonial reading.</div>		'''"Return"''' to our testimonial reading.</div>

	<span class="detour to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Another_point_of_beginning_Wayfaring_method" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Another point of beginning Wayfaring method\|Detour to Cut 3: Different (Knowledge) Conciliation Practices]]</span>		<span class="detour to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Another_point_of_beginning_Wayfaring_method" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Another point of beginning Wayfaring method\|Detour to Cut 3: Different (Knowledge) Conciliation Practices]]</span>

	<span class="return to-cut-1 link" data-page-title="Multiple Voices" data-section-id="10" data-encounter-type="return">[[Multiple Voices#Relational Accountability\|Return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder]]</span>		<span class="return to-cut-1 link" data-page-title="Multiple Voices" data-section-id="10" data-encounter-type="return">[[Multiple Voices#Relational Accountability\|Return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder]]</span>

Saskia at 12:12, 27 January 2025

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	<~~span~~ class="next_choice"> One of the ways with which the BearWatch research have started to respond to the challenge of knowledge co-production beyond a data-driven agenda, is by exploring the possibilities of “wayfaring”. If you are curious, you can take a detour to find out more about a small pilot study that we have done. Otherwise, return to our testimonial reading.</~~span~~>		<div class="next_choice"> One of the ways with which the BearWatch research have started to respond to the challenge of knowledge co-production beyond a data-driven agenda, is by exploring the possibilities of “wayfaring”. If you are curious, you can take a detour to find out more about a small pilot study that we have done. Otherwise, return to our testimonial reading.</div>

	<span class="detour to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Another_point_of_beginning_Wayfaring_method" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Another point of beginning Wayfaring method\|Detour to Cut 3: Different (Knowledge) Conciliation Practices]]</span>		<span class="detour to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Another_point_of_beginning_Wayfaring_method" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Another point of beginning Wayfaring method\|Detour to Cut 3: Different (Knowledge) Conciliation Practices]]</span>

	<span class="return to-cut-1 link" data-page-title="Multiple Voices" data-section-id="10" data-encounter-type="return">[[Multiple Voices#Relational Accountability\|Return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder]]</span>		<span class="return to-cut-1 link" data-page-title="Multiple Voices" data-section-id="10" data-encounter-type="return">[[Multiple Voices#Relational Accountability\|Return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder]]</span>

Saskia at 12:34, 23 January 2025

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	<span class="next_choice"> One of the ways with which the BearWatch research have started to respond to the challenge of knowledge co-production beyond a data-driven agenda, is by exploring the possibilities of “wayfaring”. If you are curious, you can take a detour to find out more about a small pilot study that we have done. Otherwise, return to our testimonial reading.</span>		<span class="next_choice"> One of the ways with which the BearWatch research have started to respond to the challenge of knowledge co-production beyond a data-driven agenda, is by exploring the possibilities of “wayfaring”. If you are curious, you can take a detour to find out more about a small pilot study that we have done. Otherwise, return to our testimonial reading.</span>

	<span class="detour link" data-page-title="Another_point_of_beginning_Wayfaring_method" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Another point of beginning Wayfaring method\|Detour: Different (Knowledge) Conciliation Practices]]</span>		<span class="detour to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Another_point_of_beginning_Wayfaring_method" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Another point of beginning Wayfaring method\|Detour to Cut 3: Different (Knowledge) Conciliation Practices]]</span>

	<span class="return to cut 1 link" data-page-title="Multiple Voices" data-section-id="10" data-encounter-type="return">[[Multiple Voices#Relational Accountability\|Return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder]]</span>		<span class="return to-cut-1 link" data-page-title="Multiple Voices" data-section-id="10" data-encounter-type="return">[[Multiple Voices#Relational Accountability\|Return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder]]</span>

Saskia at 00:49, 14 January 2025

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	~~To this purpose~~, ~~BearWatch researchers have collected~~ and ~~analysed TEK through workshops and individual interviews, coupled with participatory mapping~~. ~~This focus on documenting and compiling TEK~~, ~~rather than~~ the ~~more complex endeavour of engaging with Inuit Quajimajatuqangit (IQ) and reconciling two different systems of knowing and being~~ as part of ~~reconciliatory approaches to research, fits within a convention of western~~ science~~, to selectively incorporate those elements~~ of ~~Inuit knowledge that can be processed and measured~~ as ~~‘data’ (Agrawal, 2002; Nadasty, 1999)~~. ~~Such ‘data’ is often~~, ~~as was~~ the ~~case within~~ the Bearwatch project, ~~translated into geographical polygons and markers on~~ a ~~map~~. ~~Among other goals, such mapping~~ had the ~~objective~~ of ~~guiding future~~ on~~-the-land field sampling~~.		The start of my PhD trajectory coincided with a particularly ‘’messy’’ moment in the project- where a change of project partners, -co-funders and -Principle Investigators had required the project to pivot significantly. As a result, many of the research activities that were originally scheduled as part of the social science aspect of the project did not take place as planned. As a consequence of such changes, the project acquired a more natural-science heavy profile than I had anticipated before joining the Bearwatch project. Most of the IQ and TEK that had been collected in the project was part of an informative strategy to determine sampling locations in the field, rather than part of a decisive strategy where Inuit Knowledge is engaged across multiple stages of research decision making. Interviews with elders and hunters had revolved around observations and spatial demarcations under the nominator of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) marked on maps.

	Underlying this approach was an assumption that knowledge integration is a “technical problem”.In such technical approaches, knowledge integration is approached as the challenge of integrating two compartmentalised bodies of knowledge consisting of codifiable data, to be solved by applying the most appropriate interface (see Nadady, 1999). Such ~~a view leads~~ to Indigenous knowledge being seen as simply a new form of "data" - to be incorporated into research and existing management bureaucracies. The choices that were made within the project as part of this desire to ‘integrate’ TEK into western-based sciences and the subsequent processes of analysing the gathered knowledge, have led to the disconnection of such TEK from IQ - and has therefore lost the distinguishable characteristics that would make this TEK, “traditionally” Inuit.		Such strategies lead to Indigenous knowledge being seen as simply a new form of "data" - to be incorporated into research and existing management bureaucracies. The choices that were made within the project as part of this desire to ‘integrate’ TEK into western-based sciences and the subsequent processes of analysing the gathered knowledge, have led to the disconnection of such TEK from IQ - and has therefore lost the distinguishable characteristics that would make this TEK, “traditionally” Inuit.

	This observation is not to discount the insights, observations, and contributions to research that such knowledge can provide for monitoring research. However, as a process of meaningfully engaging with Inuit knowledge on its own terms, beyond a data-driven focus, this narrow focus on TEK falls short. Instead of approaching knowledge conciliation as a question of data, Indigenous ~~knowledge~~ should be considered as an invitation to rethink the basic assumptions, values, and practices underlying contemporary processes of research and polar bear management. Many Indigenous people, for example, share an understanding of knowledge not as simply understanding relationships within Creation, but rather as Creation itself (McGregor 2004). Knowledge is something one does.		This observation is not to discount the insights, observations, and contributions to research that such knowledge can provide for monitoring research. However, as a process of meaningfully engaging with Inuit knowledge on its own terms, beyond a data-driven focus, this narrow focus on TEK falls short. Instead of approaching knowledge conciliation as a question of data, Indigenous knowledges should be considered as an invitation to rethink the basic assumptions, values, and practices underlying contemporary processes of research and polar bear management. Many Indigenous people, for example, share an understanding of knowledge not as simply understanding relationships within Creation, but rather as Creation itself (McGregor 2004). Knowledge is something one does.

	[[File:Slideshow knowledge is creation.png\|border]]		[[File:Slideshow knowledge is creation.png\|border]]


	One of the ways with which we have started to respond to the challenge of knowledge co-production beyond a data-driven agenda, is by exploring the possibilities of “wayfaring”. If you are curious, you can take a detour to find out more about a small pilot study that we have done. Otherwise, return to our testimonial reading.		<span class="next_choice"> One of the ways with which the BearWatch research have started to respond to the challenge of knowledge co-production beyond a data-driven agenda, is by exploring the possibilities of “wayfaring”. If you are curious, you can take a detour to find out more about a small pilot study that we have done. Otherwise, return to our testimonial reading.</span>




	<span class="detour link" data-page-title="Another_point_of_beginning_Wayfaring_method" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Another point of beginning Wayfaring method\|Detour: Different (Knowledge) Conciliation Practices]]</span>		<span class="detour link" data-page-title="Another_point_of_beginning_Wayfaring_method" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Another point of beginning Wayfaring method\|Detour: Different (Knowledge) Conciliation Practices]]</span>

	<span class="return to cut 1 link" data-page-title="Multiple Voices" data-section-id="10" data-encounter-type="return">[[Multiple Voices#Relational Accountability\|Return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder]]</span>		<span class="return to cut 1 link" data-page-title="Multiple Voices" data-section-id="10" data-encounter-type="return">[[Multiple Voices#Relational Accountability\|Return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder]]</span>

Saskia at 00:45, 14 January 2025

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	<span class="return to cut 1 link" data-page-title="~~Voices_of_Thunder~~" data-section-id="15" data-encounter-type="return">[[Voices ~~of Thunder~~#Relational Accountability\|Return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder]]</span>		<span class="return to cut 1 link" data-page-title="Multiple Voices" data-section-id="10" data-encounter-type="return">[[Multiple Voices#Relational Accountability\|Return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder]]</span>

Saskia at 16:24, 3 January 2025

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	<span class="return link" data-page-title="Voices_of_Thunder" data-section-id="15" data-encounter-type="return">[[Voices of Thunder#Relational Accountability\|Return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder]]</span>		<span class="return to cut 1 link" data-page-title="Voices_of_Thunder" data-section-id="15" data-encounter-type="return">[[Voices of Thunder#Relational Accountability\|Return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder]]</span>

Saskia at 12:58, 28 November 2024

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	<span class="detour link" data-page-title="Another_point_of_beginning_Wayfaring_method" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Another point of beginning Wayfaring method\|Detour:~~different~~ (~~knowledge~~) ~~conciliation practices~~]]</span>		<span class="detour link" data-page-title="Another_point_of_beginning_Wayfaring_method" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Another point of beginning Wayfaring method\|Detour: Different (Knowledge) Conciliation Practices]]</span>

	<span class="return link" data-page-title="Voices_of_Thunder" data-section-id="15" data-encounter-type="return">[[Voices of Thunder#Relational Accountability\|Return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder]]</span>		<span class="return link" data-page-title="Voices_of_Thunder" data-section-id="15" data-encounter-type="return">[[Voices of Thunder#Relational Accountability\|Return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder]]</span>

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		One of the ways with which we have started to respond to the challenge of knowledge co-production beyond a data-driven agenda, is by exploring the possibilities of “wayfaring”. If you are curious, you can take a detour to find out more about a small pilot study that we have done. Otherwise, return to our testimonial reading.