ANTH 436 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, Civic Nationalism, Alterity
23 May 2018
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3/1/2018
upcoming paper:
• don’t have to take the literature of “life projects” as bible
• collective action, shared agendas
• how projects with local roots became broader movements
• don’t abandon life projects without comment
• don’t make it just a descriptive paper
• balance of descriptive and analytical
• collective life projects can be a vision of the deep past, or current project (most likely
it’s a combination of both)
• encouraged not to begin with background context → outline your argument first and
foremost
• “this is the question I seek to understand” → then delve into the essay
Price, Jackie. “Living Inuit Governance in Nunavut.” Chapter 7, in Simpson (2008).
• Inuit governance, challenges of the past, strategizing for the future
• Inuit physical and conceptual relationship with the environment
o climate change
▪ opening of the Northwest Passage → introduction of non-Inuit people
to Nunavut
▪ researchers
o land development
▪ mining and resource development
▪ economic benefit from mass extraction
o colonial violence
• Nunavut land claims agreement
• paternalistic relationship with Nunavut
o 2006 lawsuit against Canadian government because they weren’t fulfilling the
land claims agreement, settled 2015 -- compensated hundreds of millions
• takes decades to build a structure to be able to comprehensively communicate with
the Canadian government
• Inuit collective memory of the land -- Inuit conceptions of land
o can non-Inuit developers develop the land while respecting Inuit conceptions
of land
o people going in see the land as empty
• white mentality
• colonialism and its impact on the indigenous family unit
o intergenerational effects
o residential schools
• oral versus written histories
• political consultation
o Needs to be guided by Inuit peoples and governance
o Forming a knowledge base
• An independent Nunavut?
o Looking back to last week’s discussion surrounding Greenland and Denmark
o How would they deal with outside development projects coming in
o Nunavut as a territory is being treated almost like a province — has an
enormous say in what development happens
o decolonization might not have a lot to do with independence
• Kitchen Consultation Model
o Placing authority within the community
o Lateral conception of governance
o Is this model compatible with Canadian political structure
o circulating knowledge to broader places
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