Davis, K orcid.org/0000-0001-6936-4222, Ford, JD orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-3456, Quinn, CH orcid.org/0000-0002-2085-0446 et al. (3 more authors) (2022) Shifting Safeties and Mobilities on the Land in Arctic North America: A Systematic Approach to Identifying the Root Causes of Disaster. Sustainability, 14 (12). 7061. ISSN 2071-1050
Abstract
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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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Inuit; disaster; climate change; Arctic; root causes; environmental justice; mobilities; risk; colonialism |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2022 14:08 |
Last Modified: | 22 Aug 2022 14:08 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/su14127061 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:190056 |