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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Canadian North"”.
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Diamonds as Development: Suffering for Opportunity in the Canadian North
… this ethnographic investigation of the Canadian diamond boom of the 2000s illustrates how imagining stable livelihoods despite a record of impermanence and crises depends on integrating and reframing past failures with present aspirations for “the good life”. At the height of the diamond …
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Storied Icebergs: Floating Formations of Decolonial Knowledge Production About the Canadian North
… Qallunaat knowledge production about the Canadian North might be decolonised. Inspired by Tiffany Lethabo King’s The Black Shoals (2019), this dissertation uses the iceberg as a critical terrain upon which to both interrogate the coloniality of Qallunaat knowledge production and comprehend …
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A state-of-practice survey of health and environmental assessment in the Canadian north
… processes is increasingly recognized by the Canadian government and industry-based organizations. Integrating human health into environmental assessments (EAs) at the earliest stage is critical for identifying and managing potentially adverse effects. The World Health Organization states …
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".it tells us." : the practice of performativity and liminality within Northern culture
… based upon experiences working and living in the Canadian North. This thesis is focused upon questioning concepts of tacit knowing, orality through making, spiritually derived knowledge, relationship and reciprocity, and land-based knowing that is articulated through artistic creation in an …
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Development of Dental Services for Arctic Populations: Labrador and the Baffin Region Compared
… of oral health services for the Baffin Region, North West Territories when working there in 1985 and 1986. The recommendations are suggestions for some solutions. Part I provides a background by describing the elements of public dental health and their relevance to the north. A comparison is …
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The Science of Settler Colonialism: A Canadian History of the Thrifty Gene Hypothesis
… who invented it, it continues to inform Canadian state literature and clinical guidelines in 2018. Thus, in an attempt to historicize (rather than debunk) the failed but long-lived hypothesis, I trace its origins through four successive chapters focused singularly on major figures in its …
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Technological Transitions in the Far North: Yukon People’s Difficult but Transformative Relationship with Technology
… modify new technologies to suit the interests of Northern people. Little consideration was given to the social and environmental implications of large-scale mining or the application of construction technologies designed for Southern environments in Yukon. Further, it argues that the introduction …
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Building Boys, Building Canada: The Boy Scout Movement in Canada, 1908-1970
… The movement also extended its reach to the Canadian North as missionaries and government officials adopted the movement in residential and day schools across the country. The Canadian Scout movement provides a compelling lens to understand how language, religion, race and class shaped the …
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Tracing warm lines: northern Canadian exploration, knowledge, and memory, 1905-1965
… considers the early twentieth-century culture of northern Canadian exploration through a selective examination of the lives and written works of four contemporary explorers: George Douglas (1875-1963), Guy Blanchet (1884-1966), Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962), and Richard Finnie (1906-1987). …