Tag: epistemology

Call for Workshop contributions “Gender in Polar Research: Gendered field work conditions, epistemologies and legacies”

On By Stephan DudeckIn All, Announcements, conferences, Fieldwork

A two-day workshop in the framework of Arctic Science Summit Week 2020, Akureyri, Iceland, 29-30(TBC) March 2020 funded by IASC - the International Arctic Science Committee The IASC Social Sciences and Humanities Working Group (WG), together with IASC’s Cryosphere, Marine, and Terrestrial WGs, invites you to a unique cross-disciplinary workshop attempting to bring together the …

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“If research doesn’t surprise you, it’s not worth the research” Julie Cruikshank

On By Stephan DudeckIn Fieldwork, Guests, Indigenous Peoples, North American North, oral history, Spirituality, Theoretical Issues1 Comment

I would like to share with you some of the things we learned from Julie Cruikshank and other elders from the Yukon Territory to better understand oral history from the North. To search for surprising insights, to be open to challenges to our conventional perceptions, that was Julie's most important advice to us. Her talk …

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