The Wreck-site: Difference between revisions

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Gjoa Haven holds the wrecks of HMS Terror and Erebus, material traces of long-standing Inuit-Qablunaat (non-Inuit) encounters.

These sites are not static ruins but shifting spaces where history, knowledge, and materiality intertwine.

The wrecksite, like my research, is shaped by layered histories and ongoing transformation.

Research as a wrecksite is not just about what is uncovered, but how research itself becomes a contested space, claimed, studied, and sometimes fought over. Shaped by seasonal forces as shifting ice and weather limit access, altering what can be seen, gathered, or known, it also becomes a foundations for new growth.

My research is both a site of "becoming reef," opening new relational possibilities, as it is part of becoming research "heritage."

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 Research as a wrecksite is not just about what is uncovered, but how research itself becomes a contested space, claimed, studied, and sometimes fought over. Shaped by seasonal forces as shifting ice and weather limit access, altering what can be seen, gathered, or known, it also becomes a foundations for new growth.
-My research is both a site of "becoming reef," opening new relational possibilities, as it is part of "becoming heritage," embedded in power-laden histories that shape its course.
+My research is both a site of "becoming reef," opening new relational possibilities, as it is part of becoming research "heritage."
-<div class="next_choice">See how, a process of wayfaring reconceptualizes the idea of "final workshops" from projects coming to an end, towards being stories-so-far that are always also another point of beginning. </div>
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