Exploring Polar Bear Research as Ethical Space, Practice and Process of Engagement: Knowledge-land-scape: Difference between revisions

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Welcome to the knowledge-land-scape.

This space extends the work of Saskia de Wildt’s PhD dissertation, “Encountering the Great White Beast: Polar Bear Research as Ethical Space, Practice, and Process of Engagement.”

What does it mean, materially and practically, to ethically reconciliate Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (the Inuit Knowledge system) and western sciences, within community-based polar bear research?

In this Knowledge-Land-Scape you can choose among three narrated pathways to engage with that question. However, like all community-based research, these journeys will not be straightforward. You may run into ice-pressure ridges, shipwrecks and shapeshifting beasts, as well as -depending on how you respond- plenty of landmarks and vistas, that help you orient and gain emergent insights, as you make your own way.

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-Welcome to the knowledge-land-scape: an extended site of Saskia de Wildt PhD research. In this space you can explore their research on “ethical engagement” in community-based polar bear research, in Nunavut, Canada.
+Welcome to the knowledge-land-scape.
-However, unlike more typical dissertations, this space allows you to play an active part in their research, as an intra-dependent maker of meaning. You can navigate this site by choosing between 3 research storylines. Each storyline allows you to make decisions that influences your route through the knowledge-land-scape. Like community-based research itself, this knowledge-land-scape is full of challenges and opportunities to navigate and learn from. You may run into ice-pressure ridges, shipwrecks and shapeshifting beasts, and depending on how you respond, also plenty of landmarks and vistas to help you gain insights as you make your way through.
+This space extends the work of Saskia de Wildt’s [https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/items/b962c2ad-0eb9-46c7-a428-2ebc7e63752e| '''PhD dissertation'''], “Encountering the Great White Beast: Polar Bear Research as Ethical Space, Practice, and Process of Engagement.”
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+What does it mean, materially and practically, to ethically reconciliate Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (the Inuit Knowledge system) and western sciences, within community-based polar bear research?
+In this Knowledge-Land-Scape you can choose among three narrated pathways to engage with that question. However, like all community-based research, these journeys will not be straightforward. You may run into ice-pressure ridges, shipwrecks and shapeshifting beasts, as well as -depending on how you respond- plenty of landmarks and vistas, that help you orient and gain emergent insights, as you make your own way.
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