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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<ref>Aporta, C. (2004). Routes, trails and tracks: Trail breaking among the Inuit of Igloolik. Études/Inuit/Studies, 28(2), 9-38.</ref>.
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>.
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As a figure in this Knowledge-Land-Scape, "Landmarks" perform the materialization of certain findings and emergent insights along the way.  
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 only exists ''as'' movement.
This particular one, marks my understanding of how some knowledge only comes into being through movement- or ''as'' movement.  


Link to EEE protocol.
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.  


<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. This dirt - a wet, stinking clump of black mud in my hand - its memories are from a different me. A me, that one day, after a lifetime of becoming, did no longer return to that corner. I had forgotten. But it hadn't. The dirt never left, never became. It just was. Holding on. Patiently waiting until I would come and collect my belongings.
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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.


Go outside, and touch some dirt.


Then return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder, or Cut 3: Wayfaring the Bearwatch project</span>
Or,


<span class="return to cut 3 link" data-page-title="Wayfaring the BearWatch Project" data-section-id="8" data-encounter-type="return">[[Wayfaring the BearWatch Project#Coral Harbour First Trip 2020|Cut 3: Wayfaring the BearWatch Project]]</span>


<span class="return to cut 1 link" data-page-title="Multiple Voices" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="return">[[Multiple Voices|Cut 1: Voices of THunder]]</span>
'''"Return to Cut 3"''', to continue tracing other parts of the BearWatch project that I got involved with.</div>
 
 
 
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<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