The Contribution of the Canadian Rangers and the Canadian Juniors Rangers for Inuit Human Security

• Main Author: Nicolas-Vullierme, Magali
• Other Authors: Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat (CEARC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris Saclay (COmUE), Jean-Paul Vanderlinden, Stéphane Roussel
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Security; Indigenous Peoples; Human Security; Canadian Rangers; Inuit; Arctique; Sécurité; Peuples autochtones; Sécurité humaine; Rangers canadiens; [SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science; Nunavik; Arctique*; inuit
• Online Access: https://theses.hal.science/tel-02610410; https://theses.hal.science/tel-02610410/document; https://theses.hal.science/tel-02610410/file/75669_NICOLAS-VULLIERME_2018_archivage.pdf

This research focuses on identifying elements that can create an enabling environment for the protection of human security in Canada's Arctic communities. This study focuses on Nunavik, whose communities suffer from malaise and from many risks related to the concept of human security. To determine if this concept is applied in Canadian Arctic domestic policy, this research analyzes relational dynamics within Canadian Ranger patrols. Canadian Rangers’ patrols are composed mainly of indigenous under the responsibility of non-indigenous instructors. This exploratory research result of an analysis of a corpus of twenty-one interviews and field observations conducted in 2016 and 2017 in Quebec. According to our data, Rangers and Junior Ranger patrols function thanks to balanced relationships respecting Aboriginal culture. These balanced relationships help strengthening the human security of Arctic communities. According to this exploratory study, this reinforcement results from the relational dynamics and the support provided by the Arctic communities to these patrols. The Canadian government, through Canadian Ranger and Canadian Junior Ranger patrols, is thus indirectly contributing to the enhancement of human security in its Arctic communities in Quebec. La présente recherche porte sur l’identification d’éléments pouvant permettre la création d’un environnement favorable à la protection de la sécurité humaine des communautés arctiques canadiennes. Cette étude se concentre sur le Nunavik, dont les communautés souffrent de mal-être et de nombreux risques liés au concept de sécurité humaine issus de traumatismes passés. Afin de déterminer s’il existe des utilisations de ce concept dans la politique arctique canadienne, cette recherche analyse les dynamiques relationnelles au sein des patrouilles de Rangers canadiens. Composées de réservistes presque exclusivement Autochtones, ces patrouilles sont un lieu de rencontre entre militaires et Inuit. Cette recherche exploratoire est le résultat de l’analyse d’un corpus de ...