Immobilizing Polar Bears/Inuit: Productivity and Interspecies Wildlife Management in the Canadian Arctic
Keywords:
polar bears, Inuit, Northwest Territories, wildlife managementAbstract
In this article, I describe polar bear research in the
Northwest Territories in the 1970s and 1980s. This research
operated through understandings of biological productivity that
biologists used to civilize Arctic environments. Wildlife biolo
gists saw inefficiency, instability and waste in polar bears' fluc
tuating fat stores. The Inuit hunt was similarly scrutinized for
its conversion of polar bears into cash and its management of
energetic resources. With the body as the locus of their concern,
scientists monitored the circulation of energy in and between
individuals and populations and, in doing so, demarcated the
limits of normal biological function for both humans and bears.
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