The Wreck-site: Difference between revisions

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The Wrecksite as a figuration to think with emerges from the existing wrecks of HMS Terror and Erebus, in the vicinity of Gjoa Haven: material traces of long-standing Inuit-Qablunaat (non-Inuit) encounters.

These sites are not static ruins but spaces where history, knowledge, and materiality continue to create meaning and matter.

Research as a wreck-site is not just about what is uncovered, but how research itself becomes a contested space, claimed, studied, and sometimes fought over. Shaped by seasonal forces as shifting ice and weather limit access, altering what can be seen, gathered, or known, it also becomes a foundations for new growth.

My research is both a site of "becoming reef," opening new relational possibilities, as it is part of becoming research "heritage"- shaped by layered histories and ongoing transformation.

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-Gjoa Haven holds the wrecks of HMS Terror and Erebus, material traces of long-standing Inuit-Qablunaat (non-Inuit) encounters. These sites are not static ruins but shifting spaces where history, knowledge, and materiality intertwine—whether through the repurposing of shipwood into tools or broader structures like Inuit Land Claim Agreements. The wrecksite, like my research, is shaped by layered histories and ongoing transformation.
+The Wrecksite as a figuration to think with emerges from the existing wrecks of HMS Terror and Erebus, in the vicinity of Gjoa Haven: material traces of long-standing Inuit-Qablunaat (non-Inuit) encounters.
-Like a wreck, my research is shaped by seasonal forces—shifting ice and weather alter what can be known. But wrecks do not just decay; they become foundations for new growth. Similarly, the BearWatch project entangles science-based conservation, Inuit self-determination, and co-management, making research itself a contested space. It is both a site of "becoming reef," opening new possibilities, and "becoming heritage," embedded in power-laden histories that shape its course.
+These sites are not static ruins but spaces where history, knowledge, and materiality continue to create meaning and matter.
-<div class="next_choice">See how, a process of wayfaring reconceptualizes the idea of "final workshops" from projects coming to an end, towards being stories-so-far that are always also another point of beginning. </div>
+Research as a wreck-site is not just about what is uncovered, but how research itself becomes a contested space, claimed, studied, and sometimes fought over. Shaped by seasonal forces as shifting ice and weather limit access, altering what can be seen, gathered, or known, it also becomes a foundations for new growth.
-<span class="return to cut 3 link" data-page-title="Fall 2022 Gjoa Haven" data-section-id="3" data-encounter-type="return">[[Fall 2022 Gjoa Haven#Another Point of Beginning|Turn to "Another Point of Beginning"]]</span>
+My research is both a site of "becoming reef," opening new relational possibilities, as it is part of becoming research "heritage"- shaped by layered histories and ongoing transformation.
+<span class="return to cut 3 link" data-page-title="Fall 2022 Gjoa Haven" data-section-id="3" data-encounter-type="return">[[Fall 2022 Gjoa Haven#Another Point of Beginning|Return to: "Another Point of Beginning"]]</span>