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A round shaped collage of Nunavut landscapes photographed during all seasons, with an overlay of a circular calendar

You have found a vista. A vista is a site from which a particular view is offered. They allow for a prospective ethics, and to make meaningful decisions, when called upon. Vistas nevertheless do not provide all-knowing insights. They are partial perspectives that need to be reconsidered per series of events.

In this particular case, you are presented with the guiding principles of the ‘Ethical Space of Engagement’ (ESE), as proposed by Sturgeon Lake First Nation elder Willie Ermine.^[1]

The ESE, is a “third space” approach, through which differentiated nations or collectives might negotiate ethical encounters with each other in an ‘ethical’ space that belongs to neither. Encountering each other in the "ethical space" is a determinately material affair that derives from practice accordance with the principles of ethical engagement. What makes a space ethical are thus not so much its particular physical attributes, but rather the ways in which such space comes to matter.

Figure 1: The Ethical Space Diagram, originally published by the IISAAK OLAM foundation (2019). Re-used with permission.

Aesthetic action, as a method of creative practice that engages material and sensuous encounters between bodies and the affective forces created in such actions may hold possibilities to understand how ethical may come to matter in different ways.

"Return to Cut 2" and see if the actions this cut guides you along could be made intelligible as an ethical space of engagement.

↑ Ermine, W. (2007). The ethical space of engagement. Indigenous Law Journal, 6(1), 193–203.

Return to Cut 2: Aesthetic Action and the ESE

[multiple-1] Ermine, W. (2007). The ethical space of engagement. Indigenous Law Journal, 6(1), 193–203.

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-You have found a vista. A vista is a site from which a particular view or prospect is offered. Vistas can quite literally offer a horizon to assist in your navigation, like the outline of rock formations and shorelines would do within Inuit Nunangat. In the case of my knowledge-land-scape, they offer “visions”, mental images that may serve as guidelines to set out and adjust your course during the journey to come.
+You have found a vista. A vista is a site from which a particular view is offered. They allow for a prospective ethics, and to make meaningful decisions, when called upon. Vistas nevertheless do not provide all-knowing insights. They are partial perspectives that need to be reconsidered per series of events.
-In this particular case, you are presented with the guiding principles of the ‘Ethical Space of Engagement’ (ESE), as proposed by Sturgeon Lake First Nation elder Willie Ermine (Ermine 2007). The ESE, is a “third space” approach, through which differentiated nations or collectives might negotiate ethical encounters with each other in an ‘ethical’ space that belongs to neither. This third space emerges both through principled practices (like for example negotiating terms of engagement), and as a guiding model for willing partners to re-position themselves in-equitable-encounter (Ermine, 2007; Ermine 2015; Indigenous Circle of Experts 2018). When taking the ESE as a guiding frame, ethics are no longer a pre-emptive box to tick nor a static end-goal. Ethical research is rather performed as a dynamic practice of encountering which requires ongoing negotiation.
+In this particular case, you are presented with the guiding principles of the ‘Ethical Space of Engagement’ (ESE), as proposed by Sturgeon Lake First Nation elder Willie Ermine.<ref name="multiple">Ermine, W. (2007). The ethical space of engagement. Indigenous Law Journal, 6(1), 193–203.</ref>
+The ESE, is a “third space” approach, through which differentiated nations or collectives might negotiate ethical encounters with each other in an ‘ethical’ space that belongs to neither. Encountering each other in the "ethical space" is a determinately material affair that derives from practice accordance with the principles of ethical engagement. What makes a space ethical are thus not so much its particular physical attributes, but rather the ways in which such space comes to matter.
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 Figure 1: The Ethical Space Diagram, originally published by the IISAAK OLAM foundation (2019). Re-used with permission.
-<div class="next_choice">The concept of Aesthetic Encounter, as I used it in my research, holds resonance with the ESE in different ways. Return to the main cut, to learn in which ways.</div>
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+Aesthetic action, as a method of creative practice that engages material and sensuous encounters between bodies and the affective forces created in such actions may hold possibilities to understand how ethical may come to matter in different ways.
+'''"Return to Cut 2"''' and see if the actions this cut guides you along could be made intelligible as an ethical space of engagement.</div>
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 <span class="return to-cut-2 link" data-page-title="Aesthetic Action" data-section-id="4" data-encounter-type="return">[[Aesthetic Action#Aesthetic Action and the ESE|Return to Cut 2: Aesthetic Action and the ESE]]</span>