A dual perception of the dynamics of the Nunavik territory

• Main Authors: Leurent, Mathias, Rousset, Orsane, Joliet, Fabienne, Herrmann, Thora, Bhiry, Najat, Decaulne, Armelle
• Other Authors: Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Université de Brest (UBO), Espaces et Sociétés (ESO), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Le Mans Université (UM)-Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Géographie et d'Aménagement Régional de l'Université de Nantes (Nantes Univ - IGARUN), Nantes Université - pôle Humanités, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université - pôle Humanités, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Institut Agro Rennes Angers, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Institut Agro Rennes Angers, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), University of Oulu, Centre d'Etudes Nordiques (CEN), Université Laval Québec (ULaval), Littoral, Environnement, Télédétection, Géomatique (LETG - Nantes ), Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Littoral, Environnement, Télédétection, Géomatique UMR 6554 (LETG), Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Géographie et d'Aménagement Régional de l'Université de Nantes (Nantes Univ - IGARUN), Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Institut de Géographie et d'Aménagement Régional de l'Université de Nantes (Nantes Univ - IGARUN), Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ), Labex DRIIHM, ANR-11-LABX-0010, LabEx DRIIHM, OHM Fessenheim, OHM Pays de Bitche, ANR-11-LABX-0010,DRIIHM / IRDHEI,Dispositif de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les Interactions Hommes-Milieux(2011)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: OHMi Nunavik; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; inuit; inuktitut; Kuujjuaq; James Bay; Nunavik
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04171153; https://hal.science/hal-04171153/document; https://hal.science/hal-04171153/file/PosterNunavik_Leurent_2023.pdf; https://doi.org/10.34972/driihm-b6481f

International audience Nunavik, the northern region of Quebec, is a vast territory (4/5 the size of France) with a hilly topography on which the 14 villages only are built along the coast. This scientific mediation work highlights the results of two research projects: · Nuna, which focuses on Indigenous territoriality, · Move, which is interested in avalanche-related hazards and risks. The Nuna project aims to shed light, through Inuit images and words, on what "nuna" (territory in Inuktitut) means for the Indigenous peoples today: the modes of territoriality, naturalness and Inuit land-and sea-based activities and interconnectedness with the surrounding environment that take shape between tradition and contemporaneity, between generations, and how they coexist, are inherited and are recomposed. It is through Inuit iconographic creation (video, photo, mental map) that the polysensory individual – community – environment interactions are analyzed. The video is used to finalize the research carried out since 2016 on the modes of territoriality of Inuit adolescents, the future stewards of Nunavik. This research-creation project aims on the one hand to complete the video matrix of the territorialities of Indigenous youth according to a gradient relative to the influences of the "South"; and on the other hand, it aims to open up to the subsistence and related wellbeing properties of the nurturing land. The privileged sectors are the community of Ivujivik for its northern remoteness and for its political positioning against the signing of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement in 1975; and Kuujjuaq as an indicator of urbanity. The Nuna project therefore works on the territorial dimension of Inuit youth from the emic point of view and the territorial dimension of subsistence from the etic point of view. Furthermore, the study of slope dynamics is essential in different communities of Nunavik; the numerous avalanches are evidence of a changing landscape, reflecting ongoing mutations with physical (hazard ...