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Doing nothing will not dismantle ongoing settler-coloniality within polar bear management and monitoring. | Doing nothing will not dismantle ongoing settler-coloniality within polar bear management and monitoring. Nor will it render those of us active in this field, innocent. | ||
Working as a white, settler guest on matters of wildlife conservation places me in a particular lineage of administrative and scientific agents that have historically played a disruptive role in Indigenous human/nature relationships -often under the flag of bringing the ‘right’ intentions or acting from morally ‘innocent’ position. | Working as a white, settler guest on matters of wildlife conservation places me in a particular lineage of administrative and scientific agents that have historically played a disruptive role in Indigenous human/nature relationships -often under the flag of bringing the ‘right’ intentions or acting from morally ‘innocent’ position. | ||
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Considering this cultural inheritance, I have had to come to terms with my choice to insert myself in the Arctic as an international student as an action that has implicated me directly in the material dynamics of ongoing settler-colonialism, and reconciliation in Inuit Nunangat (the Inuit homelands). | Considering this cultural inheritance, I have had to come to terms with my choice to insert myself in the Arctic as an international student as an action that has implicated me directly in the material dynamics of ongoing settler-colonialism, and reconciliation in Inuit Nunangat (the Inuit homelands). | ||
Such realizations come with an awareness to tread carefully and with openness to being held accountable | Such realizations come with an awareness to tread carefully and with openness to being held accountable. | ||
The latter entails learning to become comfortable with discomfort, incommensurability and unlearning, while also applying myself and my research towards a futurity of meaningful settler-Indigenous reconciliation- with a willingness to learn and adapt my course on the way. | |||
<div class="next_choice">Check out the '''"Wrecksite"''' after all, to see if you can find another path to stay with the trouble of "recognition". | <div class="next_choice">Check out the '''"Wrecksite"''' after all, to see if you can find another path to stay with the trouble of "recognition". | ||
Revision as of 16:09, 14 February 2025
Doing nothing will not dismantle ongoing settler-coloniality within polar bear management and monitoring. Nor will it render those of us active in this field, innocent.
Working as a white, settler guest on matters of wildlife conservation places me in a particular lineage of administrative and scientific agents that have historically played a disruptive role in Indigenous human/nature relationships -often under the flag of bringing the ‘right’ intentions or acting from morally ‘innocent’ position.
Considering this cultural inheritance, I have had to come to terms with my choice to insert myself in the Arctic as an international student as an action that has implicated me directly in the material dynamics of ongoing settler-colonialism, and reconciliation in Inuit Nunangat (the Inuit homelands).
Such realizations come with an awareness to tread carefully and with openness to being held accountable.
The latter entails learning to become comfortable with discomfort, incommensurability and unlearning, while also applying myself and my research towards a futurity of meaningful settler-Indigenous reconciliation- with a willingness to learn and adapt my course on the way.
Or,