Nuna
International audience The Inuit land is often known through Western phrasings such as the “Arctic” or the “Great North.” In this article, based on an extensive review of literature, I focus on the name the Inuit give to their own land, which is one of the only words common to all Inuit dialects: nu...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.1mqe42 2023-05-15T15:07:10+02:00 Nuna Nuna: Naming the Inuit land, imagining indigenous community Pongerard, Julien Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM) Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat (CEARC) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris Saclay) 2017-01-01 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01958094/file/2017_Article_Journal-Northern-Studies.pdf https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01958094 en eng HAL CCSD Umeå University halshs-01958094 10670/1.1mqe42 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01958094/file/2017_Article_Journal-Northern-Studies.pdf https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01958094 other Hyper Article en Ligne - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société ISSN: 1654-5915 Journal of Northern Studies Journal of Northern Studies, Umeå University, 2017, Language and Space in Northern Spaces, 11 (1), pp.37-51 nuna place-names territoriality Inuit land imagined communities indigenous studies identity politics anthro-se socio Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2017 fttriple 2023-01-22T16:49:10Z International audience The Inuit land is often known through Western phrasings such as the “Arctic” or the “Great North.” In this article, based on an extensive review of literature, I focus on the name the Inuit give to their own land, which is one of the only words common to all Inuit dialects: nuna. Studying the word’s meaning casts light on a peculiar indigenous territoriality, and on the centrality of environment in Inuit ways of life and holism thinking. The Inuit conceptualize their inhabiting of the circumpolar region in a way radically opposed to Western narratives of wilderness or wasteland.In the late twentieth century, nuna was turned into a key component of identity politics. Inuit peoples linguistically reappropriated their lands, in parallel with formal land claims and the recognition of Inuit self-governed territories. Nuna is at the core of these processes, as the concept justifies the claims for recognition of vernacular toponyms, and the vocable itself was included in the names of Inuit regions. Nuna as an indigenous political banner helps understanding the imagination of Inuit political communities, emerging from a dialectical co-construction of identities and territories mediated through the linguistics of place. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic inuit Journal of Northern Studies Unknown Arctic |
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International audience The Inuit land is often known through Western phrasings such as the “Arctic” or the “Great North.” In this article, based on an extensive review of literature, I focus on the name the Inuit give to their own land, which is one of the only words common to all Inuit dialects: nuna. Studying the word’s meaning casts light on a peculiar indigenous territoriality, and on the centrality of environment in Inuit ways of life and holism thinking. The Inuit conceptualize their inhabiting of the circumpolar region in a way radically opposed to Western narratives of wilderness or wasteland.In the late twentieth century, nuna was turned into a key component of identity politics. Inuit peoples linguistically reappropriated their lands, in parallel with formal land claims and the recognition of Inuit self-governed territories. Nuna is at the core of these processes, as the concept justifies the claims for recognition of vernacular toponyms, and the vocable itself was included in the names of Inuit regions. Nuna as an indigenous political banner helps understanding the imagination of Inuit political communities, emerging from a dialectical co-construction of identities and territories mediated through the linguistics of place. |
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Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM) Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat (CEARC) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris Saclay) |
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