Democratic Self-Determination in Nunavut: Representation, Reciprocity and Mineral Development

• Main Author: Gladstone, Joshua
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2009
• Subjects: co-managment; Nunavut; mineral development; impact and benefit agreements; self-determination; Inuit-state relations; Environmental and Resource Studies; Cambridge Bay; inuit; Nunavut Land Claims Agreement
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4792

Inuit exercise a significant degree of self-determination in Nunavut through the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, particularly in the area of non-renewable resource development. Self-determination is linked to both Inuit and Canadian identity and conceptualized in its democratic form as relationships...