Notes on a caribou hearing: Spatial marginalization through participatory democracy in western Nunavut
Key Messages Public hearings function as rituals of participatory democracy whereby indigenous actors must establish their legitimacy via Western communication ideals. Environmental communication as data, story, and behaviour in participation exercises reveal shifting cultural ways of knowing and co...
| Published in: | The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2018
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cag.12443 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fcag.12443 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cag.12443 |
| Summary: | Key Messages Public hearings function as rituals of participatory democracy whereby indigenous actors must establish their legitimacy via Western communication ideals. Environmental communication as data, story, and behaviour in participation exercises reveal shifting cultural ways of knowing and communicating. Spatial marginalization is related to invited participation in place, the distancing effects of place characteristics, and the experience of being out of place. |
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