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You have encountered a Great White Beast!

The Great White Beast is a fleeting, shapeshifting figure that performs the world as "indeterminate".

Although it holds a reference to polar bears, or more accurately- a moniker that is employed within Inuit traditional customs- to respectfully avoid talking about polar bears’^[1], this figure gestures towards the "Great White Beasts" of indetermination.

It is in the spirit of this last frame that the figure of the "Great White Beast" performs in this Knowledge-Land-Scape. As an invitation to stay with the trouble: a 'learning to be truly present, not as a vanishing pivot between awful or edenic pasts and apocalyptic or salvific futures, but as moral critters entwined in myriad unfinished configurations of place, times, matters, and meanings.”^[2]

Encountering a Great White Beast, reminds us that there are no right decisions to be made, but that we are nevertheless to account for our decisions. Especially when there are no simple or right answers.^[3]

Great White Beasts provide insights into the im/possibilities of such decisions, and the futurities I have aimed to contribute towards during my research, even if they can not all be addressed within this Knowledge-Land-Scape.

As you struggle with this Great White Beast, you suddenly remember that someone told you about a very old and well-known shipwreck close-by.

Go find the "Shipwreck".

Perhaps it will provide refuge and provide you with some final insight before you exit this tutorial and enter the Knowledge-Land-Scape.

↑ Jimmy Qirqut, Gjoa Haven Elder, interview conducted in 2022
↑ Haraway, D. J. (2016 p.1). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. In Staying with the Trouble. Duke University Press.
↑ Rosiek, J., & Adkins-Cartee, M. (2023 p.160). Diffracting structure/agency dichotomies, wave/particle dualities, and the citational politics of settler colonial scholars engaging Indigenous studies literature. Cultural Studies↔ Critical Methodologies, 23(2), 157-169.

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[1] Jimmy Qirqut, Gjoa Haven Elder, interview conducted in 2022

[2] Haraway, D. J. (2016 p.1). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. In Staying with the Trouble. Duke University Press.

[3] Rosiek, J., & Adkins-Cartee, M. (2023 p.160). Diffracting structure/agency dichotomies, wave/particle dualities, and the citational politics of settler colonial scholars engaging Indigenous studies literature. Cultural Studies↔ Critical Methodologies, 23(2), 157-169.

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-Encountering a Great White Beast, reminds us that there are no right decisions to be made, but that we are nevertheless accountable to our decision-making. When the world is ‘remade’ in each meeting, it means that there is an imperative to take responsibility for the intra-active relations you build and the future relations your actions makes possible or foreclose (Barad, 2007 p.x; see also Rosiek & Adkins-Cartee, 2023 p.160). Considering that the possible relations that can emerge in this scape are partially influenced by my positionality as a researcher, the methods I have used and the concepts I have applied to create this scape, it is important to make explicit which futurities I have aimed to contribute towards while creating this scape (Barad 2007, p. 185). Great White Beasts provide insights into such decisions, even if they can not all be answered within this knowledge-land-scape and are addressed more in-depth in other sites of PhD dissertations
+[[File:Great White Beast.png|thumb]]
-The Great White Beast is a fleeting, shapeshifting figure that performs the world as indeterminate. Although it holds a reference to polar bears, or more accurately a moniker that is employed within Inuit custom, to respectfully avoid talking about polar bears’ (Jimmy Qirqut, Gjoa Haven Elder, 2022), it also gestures towards the great white beast of colonialism, while simultaneously evoking a frame of powers and agencies that extend beyond our own comprehension or capacities: a “beast of a problem”. It is in the spirit of this last frame that the figure of the Great White Beast performs in this knowledge-land-scape. An invitation to stay with the trouble, even when there are no simple or right answers.
+You have encountered a Great White Beast!
+The Great White Beast is a fleeting, shapeshifting figure that performs the world as "indeterminate".
-<span class="next_choice"> As you try to wrap your head around what it means for “powers and agencies to extend beyond our own comprehension or capacities”, you suddenly remember that someone told you about a  very old and important shipwreck close-by. You decide to have a look. Perhaps it will provide you with some final insight before you will exit this tutorial to find some “real’ answers in the knowledge-land-scape. Click on the “Wrecksite” button to go to the shipwreck.</span>
+Although it holds a reference to polar bears, or more accurately- a moniker that is employed within Inuit traditional customs- to respectfully avoid talking about polar bears’<ref>Jimmy Qirqut, Gjoa Haven Elder, interview conducted in 2022</ref>, this figure gestures towards the "Great White Beasts" of indetermination.
-<span class="pop-up wrecksite link" data-page-title="Learning About Wrecksites">[[Learning About Wrecksites]]</span>
+It is in the spirit of this last frame that the figure of the "Great White Beast" performs in this Knowledge-Land-Scape. As an invitation to stay with the trouble: a 'learning to be truly present, not as a vanishing pivot between awful or edenic pasts and apocalyptic or salvific futures, but as moral critters entwined in myriad unfinished configurations of place, times, matters, and meanings.”<ref>Haraway, D. J. (2016 p.1). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. In Staying with the Trouble. Duke University Press.</ref>
+Encountering a Great White Beast, reminds us that there are no right decisions to be made, but that we are nevertheless to account for our decisions.  Especially when there are no simple or right answers.<ref>Rosiek, J., & Adkins-Cartee, M. (2023 p.160). Diffracting structure/agency dichotomies, wave/particle dualities, and the citational politics of settler colonial scholars engaging Indigenous studies literature. Cultural Studies↔ Critical Methodologies, 23(2), 157-169.</ref>
+Great White Beasts provide insights into the im/possibilities of such decisions, and the futurities I have aimed to contribute towards during my research, even if they can not all be addressed within this Knowledge-Land-Scape.
+<div class="next_choice"> As you struggle with this Great White Beast, you suddenly remember that someone told you about a very old and well-known shipwreck close-by.
+Go find the '''"Shipwreck"'''.
+Perhaps it will provide refuge and provide you with some final insight before you exit this tutorial and enter the Knowledge-Land-Scape. </div>
+<small><references /></small>
+<span class="pop-up wrecksite link" data-page-title=" Learning About Wrecksites " data-encounter-type="Wrecksite">[[Learning About Wrecksites|Wrecksite: Learning About Wrecksites]]</span>