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You have encountered a “Great White Beast”, a fleeting, shapeshifting figure that performs the world as indeterminate.

The ethics involved when it comes to drawing from research paradigms that consider the world as indeterminate, intra-dependent and ontologically generative, cannot be resolved through ‘right’ ways of doing things^[1].

Non-Indigenous researchers engaging any form of generative ontologies need to take responsibility for whichever option they choose:

Engaging Indigenous scholarship.

Or,

Not engaging Indigenous scholarship.

Neither option is “innocent.” There are no "easy ways out".

↑ Rosiek, J., & Adkins-Cartee, M. (2023). 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.

Detour: Engage Indigenous Scholarship

Detour: Do Not Engage Indigenous Scholarship

[1] Rosiek, J., & Adkins-Cartee, M. (2023). 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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-You have encountered a “Great White Beast”, a fleeting, shapeshifting figure that performs the world as indeterminate. The possibilities of encountering a Great White Beast is a reminder that there are no right decisions to be made, but that we are nevertheless to hold ourselves accountable to our own choices.
+You have encountered a “Great White Beast”, a fleeting, shapeshifting figure that performs the world as indeterminate.
-In this case such trouble refers to the controversy around western scholarship, when it takes up ideas like intra-dependency and relational worldviews while either ignoring Indigenous literature, or appropriating them, without proper acknowledgement. There is, no ‘easy’ way out of these kinds of tensions for non-indigenous scholars. The ethics involved with drawing from such ontologies in academic work cannot be resolved through ‘right’ ways of doing things.  Non-Indigenous researchers engaging any form of generative ontologies need to take responsibility for whichever option they choose: 1. engaging Indigenous scholarship, or 2. not engaging Indigenous scholarship - While neither option is “innocent” .
+The ethics involved when it comes to drawing from research paradigms that consider the world as indeterminate, intra-dependent and ontologically generative, cannot be resolved through ‘right’ ways of doing things<ref>Rosiek, J., & Adkins-Cartee, M. (2023). 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>.
-In dealing with this Great White Beast, I have chosen to rely on a very selective body of western scholarship to formulate ways of thinking outside of the classic western subject/object divide and not appropriate Indigenous scholarship in formulating my own understanding of ontologically generative paradigms. Where appropriate and part of my process I have placed my journey in dialogue with Indigenous sources. This in turn allows you the possibility to do the same.
+<div class="next_choice">Non-Indigenous researchers engaging any form of generative ontologies need to take responsibility for whichever option they choose:
+'''Engaging Indigenous scholarship.'''
-<span class="return to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Wayfaring the BearWatch Project" data-section-id="6" data-encounter-type="return">[[Wayfaring the BearWatch Project#TEK Workshops|Return to Cut 3: Wayfaring the BearWatch Project]]</span>
+Or,
+'''Not engaging Indigenous scholarship.'''
+Neither option is “innocent.” There are no "easy ways out".</div>
+<small><references /></small>
+<span class="detour to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Engage Indigenous Scholarship" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Engage Indigenous Scholarship|Detour: Engage Indigenous Scholarship]]</span>
+<span class="detour to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Not Engaging Indigenous Scholarship" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Not Engaging Indigenous Scholarship|Detour: Do Not Engage Indigenous Scholarship]]</span>