Wayfaring the BearWatch Project - Revision history

Saskia: /* Coral Harbour First Trip 2020 */

2025-07-18T11:02:46Z

Coral Harbour First Trip 2020

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	=Coral Harbour First Trip 2020=		=Coral Harbour First Trip 2020=

			[[File:Coral Harbour May 2022.jpg\|thumb\|Photograph of Salliq (Photograph by author, May 2022)]]

	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.		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.

	~~[[File:Coral Harbour May 2022.jpg\|thumb\|Photograph of Salliq (Photograph by author, May 2022)]]~~

	<div class="next_choice">However, before you start, you hit an '''"Ice-Pressure Ridge"'''. The Covid virus has so rapidly spread, the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic on March 20, 2020.</div>		<div class="next_choice">However, before you start, you hit an '''"Ice-Pressure Ridge"'''. The Covid virus has so rapidly spread, the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic on March 20, 2020.</div>

	<span class="redirective ice-pressure_ridge link" data-page-title="Covid-19" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="ice-pressure_ridge">[[Covid-19\|Ice-pressure ridge: Immediately book a flight back]]</span>		<span class="redirective ice-pressure_ridge link" data-page-title="Covid-19" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="ice-pressure_ridge">[[Covid-19\|Ice-pressure ridge: Immediately book a flight back]]</span>

Saskia: /* Coral Harbour First Trip 2020 */

2025-07-18T11:02:19Z

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.		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.

	[[File:~~DSC01008~~.jpg\|thumb]]		[[File:Coral Harbour May 2022.jpg\|thumb\|Photograph of Salliq (Photograph by author, May 2022)]]

	<div class="next_choice">However, before you start, you hit an '''"Ice-Pressure Ridge"'''. The Covid virus has so rapidly spread, the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic on March 20, 2020.</div>		<div class="next_choice">However, before you start, you hit an '''"Ice-Pressure Ridge"'''. The Covid virus has so rapidly spread, the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic on March 20, 2020.</div>

	<span class="redirective ice-pressure_ridge link" data-page-title="Covid-19" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="ice-pressure_ridge">[[Covid-19\|Ice-pressure ridge: Immediately book a flight back]]</span>		<span class="redirective ice-pressure_ridge link" data-page-title="Covid-19" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="ice-pressure_ridge">[[Covid-19\|Ice-pressure ridge: Immediately book a flight back]]</span>

Saskia: /* Decision-making */

2025-07-18T10:51:25Z

Decision-making

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	Will you trace the most straightforward path along the reports of BearWatch project? Or will you start threading your own path as you feel your way forward in response to the company you may encounter along the way?		Will you trace the most straightforward path along the reports of BearWatch project? Or will you start threading your own path as you feel your way forward in response to the company you may encounter along the way?

	[[File:~~invitation~~ background.~~png~~\|thumb]]
			[[File:Invitation background.jpg\|thumb]]

	<div class="next_choice">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.		<div class="next_choice">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.

Saskia: /* Decision-making */

2025-07-18T10:48:39Z

Decision-making

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	Will you trace the most straightforward path along the reports of BearWatch project? Or will you start threading your own path as you feel your way forward in response to the company you may encounter along the way?		Will you trace the most straightforward path along the reports of BearWatch project? Or will you start threading your own path as you feel your way forward in response to the company you may encounter along the way?

	[[File:~~Invitation~~ background.png\|thumb]]		[[File:invitation background.png\|thumb]]

	<div class="next_choice">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.		<div class="next_choice">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.

Saskia: /* Decision-making */

2025-07-18T10:46:45Z

Decision-making

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	Will you trace the most straightforward path along the reports of BearWatch project? Or will you start threading your own path as you feel your way forward in response to the company you may encounter along the way?		Will you trace the most straightforward path along the reports of BearWatch project? Or will you start threading your own path as you feel your way forward in response to the company you may encounter along the way?

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

	<div class="next_choice">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.		<div class="next_choice">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.

Saskia: /* Wayfaring as a Sensitizing Method */

2025-07-18T10:04:53Z

Wayfaring as a Sensitizing Method

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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.		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.

			[[File:PB skulls.jpg\|thumb\|Two polar bear skulls at George Konana's cabin.]]

	It instead unsettles fixed ideas about “knowledge” towards a “coming to know”, and instead of “knowledge integration” it performs the idea of “worldly encounters”.		It instead unsettles fixed ideas about “knowledge” towards a “coming to know”, and instead of “knowledge integration” it performs the idea of “worldly encounters”.

	~~[[File:DSC00022.jpg\|thumb\|Two polar bear skulls at George Konana's cabin.]]~~

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Saskia: /* Acknowledgements */

2025-07-18T08:57:29Z

Acknowledgements

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	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.		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.

	[[File:Leonard and George.~~png~~\|thumb\|Leonard Netser (left) and George Konana (right) photographed by author]]		[[File:Leonard Netser and George Konana.jpg\|thumb\|Leonard Netser (left) and George Konana (right) photographed by author]]

	Thank you for teaching me the valuable lesson of just tagging along and being present for the ride.		Thank you for teaching me the valuable lesson of just tagging along and being present for the ride.

Saskia at 08:53, 18 July 2025

2025-07-18T08:53:05Z

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	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<ref>see Le Guin, U. K., & Haraway, D. J. (2019). The carrier bag theory of fiction (pp. 149-154). London: Ignota books. </ref>.		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<ref>see Le Guin, U. K., & Haraway, D. J. (2019). The carrier bag theory of fiction (pp. 149-154). London: Ignota books. </ref>.

	[[File:~~DSC09826~~.jpg\|thumb\|Spring on Southampton Island (Photograph taken by author in 2021)]]		[[File:Southampton Island.jpg\|thumb\|Spring on Southampton Island (Photograph taken by author in 2021)]]


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Saskia: /* Going on the Record */

2025-03-02T21:08:33Z

Going on the Record

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	~~The Gjoa Haven HTA wants a publication, so maybe there is no need to complicate things further for the moment?~~

	'''"Keep going"''' to not engage further with the community of Gjoa Haven for now, and prepare for your first fieldtrip to the North- to Coral Harbour.		'''"Keep going"''' to not engage further with the community of Gjoa Haven for now, and prepare for your first fieldtrip to the North- to Coral Harbour.

			(The Gjoa Haven HTA wants a publication, so maybe there is no need to complicate things further for the moment?)
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Saskia: /* TEK Workshops */

2025-03-02T21:06:00Z

TEK Workshops

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	The BearWatch project was designed to include a “Genomics and its Environmental, Economic, Ethical, Legal and Social aspects (GE3LS)” component		The BearWatch project was designed to include a “Genomics and its Environmental, Economic, Ethical, Legal and Social aspects (GE3LS)” component

	Three TEK mapping workshops were co-designed with the HTA of Gjoa Haven, as part of the projects ~~“Genomics and its Environmental, Economic, Ethical, Legal and Social aspects (~~GE3LS)” strategy to ‘identify TEK gaps’ and ‘fill them’<ref>BearWatch research proposal, 2016 p.30-31</ref>.		Three TEK mapping workshops were co-designed with the HTA of Gjoa Haven, as part of the projects GE3LS strategy to ‘identify TEK gaps’ and ‘fill them’<ref>BearWatch research proposal, 2016 p.30-31</ref>.

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