Exploring Polar Bear Research as Ethical Space, Practice and Process of Engagement: Knowledge-land-scape

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.”

Unlike a conventional dissertation, it invites you—as a reader and co-traveler—to move alongside Saskia in exploring the central research question: What does it mean within community-based polar bear research to ethically reconciliate Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (the Inuit Knowledge system) and western sciences?

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.

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