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You have found a "Wrecksite". Here and there, "shipwrecks" will manifest themselves. They gesture to the apparatuses that produce conditions under which some phenomena can exists within polar bear monitoring, my research and this knowledge-land-scape- and others cannot. Different shipwrecks gesture to different possibilities and futurities.

In this shipwreck you find the International Polar Bear conservation Agreement. It states that polar bear management should be conducted ‘in accordance with sound conservation practices based on the best available scientific data available’ ^[1]

You wonder to what degree such an agreement around "scientific data" would have been inclusive of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit Knowledge), at the time when the moratorium was set in the McClintock Channel.

You suspect that the knowledge people in Gjoa Haven have on polar bears, may not have played a meaningful role in the two monitoring surveys on which the McClintock Channel PBMU moratorium was set in 2001. Nor do you suspects that Gjoa Haven had much of a say around the process of such decision making. The community HTA complains of not being heard. Maybe you can approach their interests somewhat differently?

"Return to Cut 1" and call the Gjoa Haven HTA to gain some more information and see what the board expects from an academic article around their experiences.

↑ Lentfer, J. (1974). Agreement on conservation of polar bears. Polar Record, 17(108), 327-330.

Return to Cut 1: Call Gjoa Haven

[1] Lentfer, J. (1974). Agreement on conservation of polar bears. Polar Record, 17(108), 327-330.

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 You have found a "Wrecksite". Here and there, "shipwrecks" will manifest themselves. They gesture to the apparatuses that produce conditions under which some phenomena can exists within polar bear monitoring, my research and this knowledge-land-scape- and others cannot. Different shipwrecks gesture to different possibilities and futurities.
-This one allows you to think with the im/possibilities that western science produces in polar bear conservation.
+In this shipwreck you find the ''International Polar Bear conservation Agreement.'' It states that polar bear management should be conducted ‘in accordance with sound conservation practices based on the best available scientific data available’ <ref>Lentfer, J. (1974). Agreement on conservation of polar bears. Polar Record, 17(108), 327-330.</ref>
-As the ''International Polar Bear conservation Agreement'' states, polar bear management is conducted ‘in accordance with sound conservation practices based on the best available scientific data available’ <ref>Lentfer, J. (1974). Agreement on conservation of polar bears. Polar Record, 17(108), 327-330.</ref>
+You wonder to what degree such an agreement around "scientific data" would have been inclusive of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit Knowledge), at the time  when the moratorium was set in the McClintock Channel.
-Even in Nunavut, where Nunavut Land Claims Agreement mandates the meaningful inclusion of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit Knowledge), ‘data’ remains the widely accepted epistemological unit through which the polar bear co-management process is executed, even within knowledge co-production strategies.
+<div class="next_choice"> You suspect that the knowledge people in Gjoa Haven have on polar bears, may not have played a meaningful role in the two monitoring surveys on which the McClintock Channel PBMU moratorium was set in 2001. Nor do you suspects that Gjoa Haven had much of a say around the process of such decision making. The community HTA complains of not being heard. Maybe you can approach their interests somewhat differently?
-However, when cultural differences are not taken into account when designing knowledge co-production strategies, they can lead to liberal interpretations of ‘data’ as an epistemologically neutral concept that can be stretched to fit all kinds of knowledges. However, instead of being an inclusive container, the classic  concept of "data"- produced within the apparatus of science-based conservation- will always materializes as an ontologically exclusive category, limited to the anthropocentric reductionism of western sciences.
-<div class="next_choice"> After exploring this Wrecksite, you suspect that the knowledge people in Gjoa Haven might have on polar bears, may not have played a meaningful role in the decisions around the McClintock Channel PBMU moratorium on polar bear hunting when it was set in 2001. Perhaps this plays into their experiences of not being heard. Maybe you can approach their interests somewhat differently?
 '''"Return to Cut 1"''' and call the Gjoa Haven HTA to gain some more information and see what the board expects from an academic article around their experiences.