Examining the Potential of Inuit Art and Artistic Processes to Facilitate Knowledge System Bridging About Environmental Change

• Main Author: Rathwell, Kaitlyn
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2016
• Subjects: Environmental Governance; Indigenous knowledge; Inuit art; Cape Dorset; Nunavut; Pangnirtung; Bridging knowledge systems; ethnoscience; knowledge; Sociology of; Cape Dorset (Nunavut); Pangnirtung (Nunavut); Arctic; Canada; Climate change; inuit; inuktitut; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/10701

Art and artistic processes have an important role to play to bridge knowledge systems about environmental change and to inform governance action. Inuit and western knowledge systems contribute to understanding and governance of Arctic sea ice in Canada. Siku, sea ice in Inuktitut, connects to Inuit...