Perceptions of Water among the Inuit Community in Iqaluit, Nunavut: An Anti-Colonialist, Feminist Political Ecology
Water is an essential part of everyday life. In Iqaluit, residents receive their water through either utilidor or trucked water delivery, which is an integral system for everyday life in the North. For Inuit residents, gathering water from the land is also an essential source of drinking water. Base...
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ftyorkuniv:oai:yorkspace.library.yorku.ca:10315/34466 2023-05-15T15:04:41+02:00 Perceptions of Water among the Inuit Community in Iqaluit, Nunavut: An Anti-Colonialist, Feminist Political Ecology Watson, Victoria Catharine Wood, Patricia Katharine 2018-05-28T12:43:01Z application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10315/34466 en eng http://hdl.handle.net/10315/34466 Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests. Geography Arctic Inuit Indigenous Water Policy Iqaluit Emotional Geographies Feminist Political Ecology Indigenous Methodologies Community-Based Colonialism Well-Being Electronic Thesis or Dissertation 2018 ftyorkuniv 2022-08-22T13:08:20Z Water is an essential part of everyday life. In Iqaluit, residents receive their water through either utilidor or trucked water delivery, which is an integral system for everyday life in the North. For Inuit residents, gathering water from the land is also an essential source of drinking water. Based on fieldwork results from 2016, this thesis argues that perceptions of municipal water in Iqaluit are a source of added stress to daily life, and that gathering water from the land is an important part of Inuit identity that can be a source of healing. Both experiences with municipal water and water from the land are emotional and embodied. Specific results will be discussed with regard to age and gender. Using principles from Indigenous methodologies with feminist political ecology, data was collected through participant observation and a series of twenty-one semi-structured interviews with Inuit community members. Thesis Arctic inuit Iqaluit Nunavut York University, Toronto: YorkSpace Arctic Nunavut |
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Water is an essential part of everyday life. In Iqaluit, residents receive their water through either utilidor or trucked water delivery, which is an integral system for everyday life in the North. For Inuit residents, gathering water from the land is also an essential source of drinking water. Based on fieldwork results from 2016, this thesis argues that perceptions of municipal water in Iqaluit are a source of added stress to daily life, and that gathering water from the land is an important part of Inuit identity that can be a source of healing. Both experiences with municipal water and water from the land are emotional and embodied. Specific results will be discussed with regard to age and gender. Using principles from Indigenous methodologies with feminist political ecology, data was collected through participant observation and a series of twenty-one semi-structured interviews with Inuit community members. |
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Perceptions of Water among the Inuit Community in Iqaluit, Nunavut: An Anti-Colonialist, Feminist Political Ecology |
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Perceptions of Water among the Inuit Community in Iqaluit, Nunavut: An Anti-Colonialist, Feminist Political Ecology |
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Perceptions of Water among the Inuit Community in Iqaluit, Nunavut: An Anti-Colonialist, Feminist Political Ecology |
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Perceptions of Water among the Inuit Community in Iqaluit, Nunavut: An Anti-Colonialist, Feminist Political Ecology |
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Perceptions of Water among the Inuit Community in Iqaluit, Nunavut: An Anti-Colonialist, Feminist Political Ecology |
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perceptions of water among the inuit community in iqaluit, nunavut: an anti-colonialist, feminist political ecology |
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