Exploring Community Mobilization in Northern Quebec: Motivators, Challenges, and Resilience in Action
Nunavimmiut (people of the land) are the Indigenous peoples of the northern peninsula of the province of Quebec. Communities of Nunavik and its regional organizations have been making concerted efforts in implementing community‐based strategies to support family wellbeing. These community strategies...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6771649 2023-05-15T16:55:01+02:00 Exploring Community Mobilization in Northern Quebec: Motivators, Challenges, and Resilience in Action Fraser, Sarah Louise Hordyk, Shawn‐Renee Etok, Nancy Weetaltuk, Caroline 2019-08-24 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6771649/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31444914 https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12384 en eng John Wiley and Sons Inc. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6771649/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31444914 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12384 © 2019 Society for Community Research and Action This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. CC-BY-NC-ND Special Issue Articles Text 2019 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12384 2019-10-06T00:48:10Z Nunavimmiut (people of the land) are the Indigenous peoples of the northern peninsula of the province of Quebec. Communities of Nunavik and its regional organizations have been making concerted efforts in implementing community‐based strategies to support family wellbeing. These community strategies are grounded in many of the values underpinning community psychology: favoring empowerment‐oriented approaches, fostering community capacity, and transforming organizational cultures to allow for new modes of interaction, as well as new policies and practices that are grounded in community and culture. Despite the growing support and expectation for community mobilization, there is still very little research on the processes and challenges to such mobilization. In this study, we explored the unique challenges and facilitators to community endeavors in northern Quebec in order to better understand the complex dynamics and the strengths that Inuit build upon. We first used a focused ethnographic approach in the context of a 5‐year community mobilization project in Nunavik. We then conducted 12 individual interviews and two small group interviews with Inuit working on community‐based wellbeing‐oriented mobilization projects in four additional communities. Results expose how sociogeographical realities and colonialism influence the process of community mobilization. They also highlight the values and motivational factors that lead community members to move beyond these influences. Text inuit Nunavik PubMed Central (PMC) Nunavik American Journal of Community Psychology 64 1-2 159 171 |
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Nunavimmiut (people of the land) are the Indigenous peoples of the northern peninsula of the province of Quebec. Communities of Nunavik and its regional organizations have been making concerted efforts in implementing community‐based strategies to support family wellbeing. These community strategies are grounded in many of the values underpinning community psychology: favoring empowerment‐oriented approaches, fostering community capacity, and transforming organizational cultures to allow for new modes of interaction, as well as new policies and practices that are grounded in community and culture. Despite the growing support and expectation for community mobilization, there is still very little research on the processes and challenges to such mobilization. In this study, we explored the unique challenges and facilitators to community endeavors in northern Quebec in order to better understand the complex dynamics and the strengths that Inuit build upon. We first used a focused ethnographic approach in the context of a 5‐year community mobilization project in Nunavik. We then conducted 12 individual interviews and two small group interviews with Inuit working on community‐based wellbeing‐oriented mobilization projects in four additional communities. Results expose how sociogeographical realities and colonialism influence the process of community mobilization. They also highlight the values and motivational factors that lead community members to move beyond these influences. |
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Exploring Community Mobilization in Northern Quebec: Motivators, Challenges, and Resilience in Action |
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