Learning About Ice Pressure Ridges: Difference between revisions

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Where sea-ice meets the shore, or where ice sheets are pushed into each other by their underlying currents, they are forced upwards. Where the ice sheets are forced upwards they shape jagged lines of icy structures across the landscape. When encountering such ice pressure ridges you have to feel your way alongside them to find an appropriate point of crossing.

Ice-pressure ridges perform a re-directive of a seemingly less voluntary nature than the invitations explained before. That is because an ice-pressure ridge does not so much depend on our active attunements, as it submits and exposes us to the conditions and boundaries within which we encounter the larger apparatuses at play.

Ice pressure ridges de/marcate both the boundaries of this knowledge-land-scape, as well as the extent of possibilities for readers to make their own tracing/threading/wayfaring choices.

Like in community-based research, not everything is possible in this Knowledge-Land-Scape.

Ignore the "Keep Going" button.

"Return" to the instruction cut to continue this tutorial.

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-Where sea-ice meets the shore, or where ice sheets are pushed into each other by their underlying currents, they are forced upwards. Where the ice sheets are forced upwards they shape jagged lines of icy structures across the landscape. When encountering such ice pressure ridges you have to traverse alongside them to find an appropriate point of crossing.
+[[File:Ice pressure ridge background a.png|thumb]]
-The figure of the Ice-pressure ridge emerged as part of my own experiences when I was taken out on the land or across the ice by the Inuit research collaborators of the BearWatch project, and other community-members. Although the principles of redirection, and trailing along such ice pressure ridges is therefore based on the material realities of moving across the ice, it is also a practice that applies to other processes and events. Covid-19 or delays due to the weather are examples of such events that force us move alongside material agencies outside of our control. Each of these events perform in ways that push you off track, in similar ways that you would when encountering an ice pressure ridge on the ice.
+Where sea-ice meets the shore, or where ice sheets are pushed into each other by their underlying currents, they are forced upwards. Where the ice sheets are forced upwards they shape jagged lines of icy structures across the landscape. When encountering such ice pressure ridges you have to feel your way alongside them to find an appropriate point of crossing.
-Like invitations such ridges may constitute a trail of multiple events and encounters. Also like invitations, they often materialize in unanticipated insights and outcomes.
+Ice-pressure ridges perform a re-directive of a seemingly less voluntary nature than the invitations explained before. That is because an ice-pressure ridge does not so much depend on our active attunements, as it submits and exposes us to the conditions and boundaries within which we encounter the larger apparatuses at play.
-<span class="next_choice"> Keep following the ridge, until you can return to the cut you came from. </span>
+Ice pressure ridges de/marcate both the boundaries of this knowledge-land-scape, as well as the extent of possibilities for readers to make their own tracing/threading/wayfaring choices.
-<span class="return to instructions link" data-page-title="Encounters Along the Way" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="return">[[Encounters Along the Way|Return to instructions]]</span>
+Like in community-based research, not everything is possible in this Knowledge-Land-Scape.
+<div class="next_choice"> Ignore the "Keep Going" button.
+"Return" to the instruction cut to continue this tutorial.</div>
+<span class="return to instructions link" data-page-title="Encounters Along the Way" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="return">[[Encounters Along the Way|Return: to instructions]]</span>