Multiple Sites of Enunciation
Acknowledging the tension of our differences, when it comes to our entanglements within the overarching polar bear management and monitoring apparatuses, rather than attempting to erase them, aligns with the principles of ethical engagement[1][2]., and the Inuit Circumpolar Council Protocol 2 calls for the recognition of Indigenous Knowledge in its own right[3].
The landmark, as a figure, has itself lots to teach us about how to acknowledge and relate to such differences.
As we acknowledge our differences, we move onto our own tracks- and continue our journeys side by side and laterally.
As we pass particular points and places in the land, lets say for example a rock formation, our tracks may split. As we each pass the rock formation on each side, two different perspective emerge, as the face of the rock-formation will present itself as different to each of us.
The point here is not to argue whether or not we are looking at the same rock formation, or how our subjective views change the way that the rock present themselves to us.
The point here is that the rocks are not determinable as separate from ourselves, our position in the landscape, where we have been and where we are going. Our practice of lateral movement has unfixed the rocks as not just something than can be located out there, but rather as something that can also locate us, and the many other other material agencies that make it possible for us to encounter the rock formation.