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You have found a "Wrecksite".  
You have found a "Wrecksite".  


Here and there, "shipwrecks" will manifest themselves.  
This one allows you to think with the im/possibilities of knowledge (co-)production, through the collection of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in polar bear monitoring and co-management.  


They gesture to the apparatuses that produce conditions under which some phenomena can exists and others cannot.  
In scientific wildlife co-management and research the properties of ‘science’ are mostly understood in terms of western natural sciences and as represented through data <ref>Brook, R. (2005). On using expert-based science to “test” local ecological knowledge. Ecology and Society : a Journal of Integrative Science for Resilience and Sustainability., 10(2). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01478-1002r03</ref><ref>Smylie, J., Olding, M., & Ziegler, C. (2014). Sharing what we know about living a good life: Indigenous approaches to knowledge translation. The Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 35, 16.</ref>. Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) often finds itself related to such sciences, by being reduced to a data set itself - sometimes refered to as TEK.  


This one allows you to think with the im/possibilities of knowledge (co-)production in polar bear monitoring and co-management.
James Qitsualik, Gjoa Haven HTA vice-chair had the following to say about TEK-interviews conducted as part of polar bear monitoring surveys:


In scientific wildlife co-management and research the properties of ‘science’ are mostly determined by the agential cuts of post-positivist western natural sciences and its understanding of the world through representative data <ref>Brook, R. (2005). On using expert-based science to “test” local ecological knowledge. Ecology and Society : a Journal of Integrative Science for Resilience and Sustainability., 10(2). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01478-1002r03</ref><ref>Smylie, J., Olding, M., & Ziegler, C. (2014). Sharing what we know about living a good life: Indigenous approaches to knowledge translation. The Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 35, 16.</ref>.
''"A lot of the time they [scientist] already know what they want to know. A lot of the time they just need to know the locations. 'Can you tell me where the den-sites are?"<ref>James Qitsualik, interview, 2022</ref>"''


Scientist seeking to make IQ ‘’intelligible’’ within this paradigm, either need to break it down into representative data, or place IQ completely outside of the phenomena of Science as ‘another phenomena’, like values, beliefs, ethics or cultural identities.  
That doesn't make TEK interviews essentially useless or unethical. Like "Wrecksites" in this Knowledge-Land-Scape, TEK interviews emerged in our conversation as sites of multiplicity and opportunity.  


''"These interviews with the elders are very important, because now, some of them have passed.''
''"I have also learnt a lot through these [TEK] workshops. I have learnt that Inuit used to hunt polar bears from within their den. It's where they - inexperienced hunters - felt safer. Experienced hunters would hunt them anywhere."<ref>James Qitsualik, interview, 2022</ref>''


<div class="next_choice"> Over the last couple of years they have been trying to get BearWatch researchers to turn their focus towards the impacts of reduced polar bear harvest quota on their community.


Tomorrow, 20 people will come to talk about how a harvesting moratorium from 2001 has had ongoing impacts on them up until today.  
<div class="next_choice"> '''"Return"''' to the BearWatch project.


'''"Return"''' to the BearWatch project to join this workshops. You should get going, because you also still need to buy coffee, "pop", and snacks for that
meeting.<\div>


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Latest revision as of 15:18, 16 August 2025

You have found a "Wrecksite".

This one allows you to think with the im/possibilities of knowledge (co-)production, through the collection of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in polar bear monitoring and co-management.

In scientific wildlife co-management and research the properties of ‘science’ are mostly understood in terms of western natural sciences and as represented through data [1][2]. Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) often finds itself related to such sciences, by being reduced to a data set itself - sometimes refered to as TEK.

James Qitsualik, Gjoa Haven HTA vice-chair had the following to say about TEK-interviews conducted as part of polar bear monitoring surveys:

"A lot of the time they [scientist] already know what they want to know. A lot of the time they just need to know the locations. 'Can you tell me where the den-sites are?"[3]"

That doesn't make TEK interviews essentially useless or unethical. Like "Wrecksites" in this Knowledge-Land-Scape, TEK interviews emerged in our conversation as sites of multiplicity and opportunity.

"These interviews with the elders are very important, because now, some of them have passed. "I have also learnt a lot through these [TEK] workshops. I have learnt that Inuit used to hunt polar bears from within their den. It's where they - inexperienced hunters - felt safer. Experienced hunters would hunt them anywhere."[4]


"Return" to the BearWatch project.


  1. Brook, R. (2005). On using expert-based science to “test” local ecological knowledge. Ecology and Society : a Journal of Integrative Science for Resilience and Sustainability., 10(2). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01478-1002r03
  2. Smylie, J., Olding, M., & Ziegler, C. (2014). Sharing what we know about living a good life: Indigenous approaches to knowledge translation. The Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 35, 16.
  3. James Qitsualik, interview, 2022
  4. James Qitsualik, interview, 2022


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