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

Welcome to the knowledge-land-scape.

This space is an extended site of my (Saskia de Wildt) PhD dissertation: “Community-based polar bear monitoring research as an ethical practice, process and space of engagement”

Unlike more typical dissertations, this space allows you as a reader to play an active part in answering my research question: What does it mean within community-based polar bear research to ethically conciliate Inuit Knowledge and western sciences?

You can choose between 3 narrated tracks across this research knowledge-land-scape to explore this question alongside me. Each track allows you to make decisions and respond in ways that allow for directing your own journey and gain emergent insights. However, like community-based research itself, this knowledge-land-scape is full of challenges and opportunities to navigate and learn from. You may run into figurative 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 insights to answer the research question from different vantage points as you make your own way through this knowledge-land-scape.

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