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.
-My name is Saskia de Wildt and this space is an extended site of my PhD dissertation: “Community-based polar bear monitoring research as an ethical practice, process and space of engagement”
+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.”
-Unlike more typical dissertations, this space allows you as a reader to move alongside me as I answer the following research question: What does it mean within community-based polar bear research to ethically conciliate Inuit Knowledge and western sciences?
+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?
-You can choose between 3 narrated cuts across this Knowledge-Land-Scape to explore this 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.
+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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