aBstraCt. the purpose of this study was to explore community perspectives on the most important ways that climate change is affecting the health of northern peoples. the study was conducted in Iqaluit, Nunavut, using a participatory action approach and the photovoice research method. Participants identified themes and patterns in the data and developed a visual model of the relationships between the themes identified. Five themes emerged from the data: the direct impacts of climate change on the health of individuals and communities, the transition from past climates to future climates, necessary adaptation to the changing climate in the North, the call to action (individual, regional, and national), and reflection on the past and changing knowledge systems. a climate change and health model was developed to illustrate the relationships between the themes. Participants in this study conceptualized health and climate change broadly. Participants believed that by engaging in a process of ongoing reflection, and by continually incorporating new knowledge and experiences into traditional knowledge systems, communities may be better able to adapt and cope with the challenges to health posed by climate change.Key words: Inuit, northern communities, Nunavut, climate change, health, action, participatory research rÉsuMÉ. l'objectif de cette étude consistait à explorer diverses perspectives communautaires quant aux manières les plus importantes dont le changement climatique a des incidences sur la santé des gens du Nord. l'étude a été réalisée à Iqaluit, au Nunavut, au moyen d'une méthode d'action et de recherche participative faisant appel à la « photovoice ». les participants ont déterminé les thèmes de même que les tendances caractérisant les données, puis ont abouti à un modèle visuel pour établir des relations entre les thèmes ainsi déterminés. les données ont donné lieu à la formulation de cinq thèmes, soit les incidences directes du changement climatique sur la santé des gens et des collectivités; la transition des anciens climats aux nouveaux climats; l'adaptation nécessaire au climat changeant dans le Nord; un appel à l'action (individuel, régional et national); et une réflexion sur les systèmes de savoir du passé qui sont en pleine évolution. Ensuite, un modèle de changement climatique et de santé a été élaboré dans le but d'illustrer les liens existant entre les divers thèmes. les participants à cette étude ont conceptualisé le changement climatique et ses incidences sur la santé à grande échelle. Ils croyaient qu'en s'adonnant à un processus de réflexion continue et qu'en intégrant constamment de nouvelles connaissances et expériences aux systèmes de savoir traditionnel, les collectivités pourraient être mieux placées pour s'adapter et relever les défis posés par le changement climatique en matière de santé.Mots clés : Inuit, collectivités du Nord, Nunavut, changement climatique, santé, action, recherche participative traduit pour la revue Arctic par Nicole Giguère.

Journeying from "I" to "we": Assembling hybrid caring collectives of geography doctoral scholars Completing a PhD is difficult. Within a city and a university recovering from a major earthquake sequence, general stress levels are much higher, and caring for some of the non-academic needs of doctoral scholars becomes critically important to these scholars' success. Yet in the same situation, academic supervisors may be stretched to the limits of their capacity to care even just for doctoral scholars' research training needs, let alone their broader pastoral care. The question, then, is how do we increase capacity to provide care for doctoral scholars in this kind of environment? While it has been shown elsewhere that supportive and interactive department cultures are correlated with lower attrition rates (Lovitts & Nelson, 2000), little work has been done on how exactly departments might go about in creating these supportive environments: the focus is generally on the individual actions of supervisors, or the individual quality and independence of students admitted (Johnson, Lee, & Green, 2000). In this article, we suggest that a range of actors and contingencies are involved in journeying toward a more caring collective culture. We direct attention to the hybridity of a "caring collective" emerging in the Department of Geography at the University of Canterbury. Following Callon and Rabeharisoa (2003), our caring collective is hybrid because the actors assembled are not only "students" and "staff", but also bodies, technologies, objects, institutions and other nonhuman actors including tectonic plates and earthquakes. The concept of the hybrid caring collective is useful, we argue, as a way of understanding the distributed responsibility for the care of doctoral scholars, and as a way of stepping beyond the student/supervisor blame game.

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Indigenous peoples have been making maps and utilizing GIS for some time, and have been mapped and cadastralized for some time as well. Models of Indigenous spatiality have been the topic of some work, but the data for modelling Indigenous spatiotemporality remain scant, and the subject matter is rich. This paper suggests another layer of representation for GIS when dealing with complex data with a strong relational and qualitative component. In this paper, we present a new data model that we are calling the spatiotemporal motif. It is an open data model incorporating choric (coordinate) as well as topic (attribute) space and chronic (coordinate) as well as kairic (attribute) time. The model aims to fill gaps in other data model depictions concerning lack of support for cyclical time, multiple constraints on what constitutes a proper time or place for a given activity, fluid and dynamic spatiotemporal boundaries, support for narratives and contingencies, and privacy and sensitivity concerns.