Notes on a caribou hearing: Spatial marginalization through participatory democracy in western Nunavut

• Published in: The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien
• Main Author: Tam, Chui‐Ling
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: Nunavut
• 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

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.