Arctic indigenous youth resilience and vulnerability: Comparative analysis of adolescent experiences across five circumpolar communities
Arctic peoples today find themselves on the front line of rapid environmental change brought about by globalizing forces, shifting climates, and destabilizing physical conditions. The weather is not the only thing undergoing rapid change here. Social climates are intrinsically connected to physical...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/1363461514547120 2024-09-09T19:21:19+00:00 Arctic indigenous youth resilience and vulnerability: Comparative analysis of adolescent experiences across five circumpolar communities Ulturgasheva, Olga Rasmus, Stacy Wexler, Lisa Nystad, Kristine Kral, Michael 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363461514547120 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1363461514547120 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1363461514547120 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Transcultural Psychiatry volume 51, issue 5, page 735-756 ISSN 1363-4615 1461-7471 journal-article 2014 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461514547120 2024-08-27T04:24:06Z Arctic peoples today find themselves on the front line of rapid environmental change brought about by globalizing forces, shifting climates, and destabilizing physical conditions. The weather is not the only thing undergoing rapid change here. Social climates are intrinsically connected to physical climates, and changes within each have profound effects on the daily life, health, and well-being of circumpolar indigenous peoples. This paper describes a collaborative effort between university researchers and community members from five indigenous communities in the circumpolar north aimed at comparing the experiences of indigenous Arctic youth in order to come up with a shared model of indigenous youth resilience. The discussion introduces a sliding scale model that emerged from the comparative data analysis. It illustrates how a “sliding scale” of resilience captures the inherent dynamism of youth strategies for “doing well” and what forces represent positive and negative influences that slide towards either personal and communal resilience or vulnerability. The model of the sliding scale is designed to reflect the contingency and interdependence of resilience and vulnerability and their fluctuations between lowest and highest points based on timing, local situation, larger context, and meaning. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic SAGE Publications Arctic Transcultural Psychiatry 51 5 735 756 |
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Arctic peoples today find themselves on the front line of rapid environmental change brought about by globalizing forces, shifting climates, and destabilizing physical conditions. The weather is not the only thing undergoing rapid change here. Social climates are intrinsically connected to physical climates, and changes within each have profound effects on the daily life, health, and well-being of circumpolar indigenous peoples. This paper describes a collaborative effort between university researchers and community members from five indigenous communities in the circumpolar north aimed at comparing the experiences of indigenous Arctic youth in order to come up with a shared model of indigenous youth resilience. The discussion introduces a sliding scale model that emerged from the comparative data analysis. It illustrates how a “sliding scale” of resilience captures the inherent dynamism of youth strategies for “doing well” and what forces represent positive and negative influences that slide towards either personal and communal resilience or vulnerability. The model of the sliding scale is designed to reflect the contingency and interdependence of resilience and vulnerability and their fluctuations between lowest and highest points based on timing, local situation, larger context, and meaning. |
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Ulturgasheva, Olga Rasmus, Stacy Wexler, Lisa Nystad, Kristine Kral, Michael Arctic indigenous youth resilience and vulnerability: Comparative analysis of adolescent experiences across five circumpolar communities |
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Arctic indigenous youth resilience and vulnerability: Comparative analysis of adolescent experiences across five circumpolar communities |
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