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Landmarks are defining features in the land that traditionally play an important role in Inuit topographical understandings of their land and its resources. They are important orienting features to keep one's bearing while travelling and to determine where one is located at any given moment (Aporta date). As a figure in this knowledge-land-scape they perform certain findings and insights that you can gather along the way. These insights are not always obvious when you follow only the three main cuts of the knowledge-land-scape. Like this one, they rather reveal themselves to you, as you respond to specific invitations, detours and ice pressure ridges. The insight that these landmarks have to offer are always particular to the paths and trails that lead towards them, and their meaning materializes in relation to where you come from, where are you going and what decisions you have made on the way.  
Landmarks are defining features in the land that traditionally play an important role in Inuit topographical understandings of their land and its resources. They are important orienting features to keep one's bearing while travelling and to determine where one is located at any given moment<ref>Aporta, C. (2004). Routes, trails and tracks: Trail breaking among the Inuit of Igloolik. Études/Inuit/Studies, 28(2), 9-38.</ref>.


<div class="next_choice">The way that the dirt smells at a particular corner in my city, where I have lived most of my adult life, has never felt as meaningful to me as it does after spending so much time on the move. The smell of catpee and rainwater, entangled with the life that was lived on that corner, matters. At least it matters to me. The memories that give it this meaning. This dirt - a wet, stinking clump of cheap, black mud in my hand - its memories are from a different me. A me that would leave, and return, and leave, and become other. Become other, but return. Would leave and return - to talk with my friend in the rain until three in the morning. On that corner. Even if I saw them every day - and would see them the next day. A me, that would lie in that grass. On that corner, next to the cheap, black, cat pee dirt. At night, working out a text-message to a lover. A me, that one day didn't return to that corner. After the text was sent, and my friend and I finally parted ways, I forgot about the corner. But the cheap black dirt just stayed. Never left, never became. It just was. Holding on. Patiently waiting until I would come and collect my meaning.
As a figure in this Knowledge-Land-Scape, "Landmarks" perform the materialization of certain findings and emergent insights along the way.  


Go outside, and touch some dirt.</div>
This particular one, marks my understanding of how some knowledge only comes into being through movement- or ''as'' movement.  


<span class="return to cut 3 link" data-page-title="Wayfaring the BW project" data-section-id="1" data-encounter-type="return">[[Wayfaring the BW project#Covid-19 Remote Interviews|Cut 3: Wayfaring the BW Project]]</span>
My continous moving in-between countries, territories, timezones, languages, cultures, relationships allowed for intra-relational thinking across entities and events, rather than inter-relational thinking merely between entities and events. It started to create tentative openings in which my campervan Butter, the covid-virus, hot tarmac, the seasons, vaccines, all became agents in the production of space, time, meaning and matter within my research, instead of the other way around. Slowly, I started to understand that any knowledge generated within this liminal space, requires attunement to the agential web of all the entities and events you move through and alongside with<ref>Braidotti, R. (2006 p.271). Transpositions: On nomadic ethics. Polity.</ref>. Even time and space itself is produced by the intra-relational dynamics within such a web.


This is the easy link to the <span class="return to cut 1 link" data-page-title="Multiple Voices" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="return">[[Multiple Voices|Cut 1: Multiple Voices]]</span>
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'''"Return"''' to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder, if you were seeking to collaborate with the Gjoa Haven HTA - but you got redirected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
 
 
Or,
 
 
'''"Return to Cut 3"''', to continue tracing other parts of the BearWatch project that I got involved with.</div>
 
 
 
<small><references /></small>
 
<span class="return to-cut-1 link" data-page-title="Multiple Voices" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="return">[[Multiple Voices|Return to Cut 1]]</span>
 
<span class="return to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Wayfaring_the_BW_project" data-section-id="3" data-encounter-type="return">[[Wayfaring the BW project#Spring Coral Harbour 2020|Return to Cut 3: Spring Coral Harbour 2020]]</span>

Latest revision as of 12:22, 18 July 2025

Landmarks are defining features in the land that traditionally play an important role in Inuit topographical understandings of their land and its resources. They are important orienting features to keep one's bearing while travelling and to determine where one is located at any given moment[1].

As a figure in this Knowledge-Land-Scape, "Landmarks" perform the materialization of certain findings and emergent insights along the way.

This particular one, marks my understanding of how some knowledge only comes into being through movement- or as movement.

My continous moving in-between countries, territories, timezones, languages, cultures, relationships allowed for intra-relational thinking across entities and events, rather than inter-relational thinking merely between entities and events. It started to create tentative openings in which my campervan Butter, the covid-virus, hot tarmac, the seasons, vaccines, all became agents in the production of space, time, meaning and matter within my research, instead of the other way around. Slowly, I started to understand that any knowledge generated within this liminal space, requires attunement to the agential web of all the entities and events you move through and alongside with[2]. Even time and space itself is produced by the intra-relational dynamics within such a web.

"Return" to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder, if you were seeking to collaborate with the Gjoa Haven HTA - but you got redirected by the Covid-19 pandemic.


Or,


"Return to Cut 3", to continue tracing other parts of the BearWatch project that I got involved with.


  1. ↑ Aporta, C. (2004). Routes, trails and tracks: Trail breaking among the Inuit of Igloolik. Études/Inuit/Studies, 28(2), 9-38.
  2. ↑ Braidotti, R. (2006 p.271). Transpositions: On nomadic ethics. Polity.

Return to Cut 1

Return to Cut 3: Spring Coral Harbour 2020

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