Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 14, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su14127061
Keywords
Inuit; disaster; climate change; Arctic; root causes; environmental justice; mobilities; risk; colonialism
Funding
- University of Leeds Priestley Scholarship - Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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Little research has focused on the experiences of people for whom travel is cyclical and a part of daily life. This study examines the barriers to travel for Inuit in Arctic North America and identifies historic and contemporary colonial policy and inequality as root causes, impacting people's mobility and well-being.
Amid the surge in research on mobility and migration in the context of environmental change, little research has focused on the experiences of people for whom travel is cyclical and a part of daily, weekly, or seasonal life. For Inuit in Arctic North America, the land is the heart of cultural and community life. Disruption to time spent on the land is reported to impact the emotional health and well-being of individuals and communities. There is concern that environmental change is creating barriers to safe travel, constituting a creeping disaster. We systematically review and evaluate the literature for discussion of barriers to travel for Inuit in Arctic North America, using an approach from the field of disaster anthropology to identify root causes of constraints to mobility. We identify root causes of risk and barriers to time spent on the land. These emerge from historic and contemporary colonial policy and inequality, as opposed to environmental hazards per se, impacting people's mobility in profound ways and enacting a form of slow violence. These results suggest a need to understand the underlying processes and institutions that put people at risk.
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