Social stratification through the capabilities approach: the case of the Inuit of Nunavik

Duhaime, Gérard; Édouard, Roberson

doi:10.1080/1088937x.2014.973464

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“…Because of the need to import food and other goods, the cost of living in Nunavik is extremely high despite government subsidies on housing and many food items and commodities [ 53 ]. At the same time, un- and under-employment rates are very high: half of respondents to a 2008 health study in Nunavik did not have a full-time job [ 54 ]. This combination means that poverty and food insecurity are serious social problems in Kangiqsujuaq, as they are elsewhere in the Canadian Arctic [ 52 ].…”

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Sharing-based social capital associated with harvest production and wealth in the Canadian Arctic

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Social institutions that facilitate sharing and redistribution may help mitigate the impact of resource shocks. In the North American Arctic, traditional food sharing may direct food to those who need it and provide a form of natural insurance against temporal variability in hunting returns within households. Here, network properties that facilitate resource flow (network size, quality, and density) are examined in a country food sharing network comprising 109 Inuit households from a village in Nunavik (Canada), using regressions to investigate the relationships between these network measures and household socioeconomic attributes. The results show that although single women and elders have larger networks, the sharing network is not structured to prioritize sharing towards households with low food availability. Rather, much food sharing appears to be driven by reciprocity between high-harvest households, meaning that poor, low-harvest households tend to have less sharing-based social capital than more affluent, high-harvest households. This suggests that poor, low-harvest households may be more vulnerable to disruptions in the availability of country food.

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Sharing-based social capital associated with harvest production and wealth in the Canadian Arctic

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“…We chose demographic and economic indicators which have previously been used to describe and characterize socio-economic conditions in the Arctic (Duhaime and Caron 2009, Duhaime and Édouard 2014, Glomsrød and Aslaksen 2009. The demographic indicators used include population density, natural population growth and net migration.…”

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Demographic and economic disparities among Arctic regions

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We use demographic and economic indicators to analyze spatial differences and temporal trends across 18 regions surrounding the Arctic Ocean. Multifactor and cluster analysis were used on 10 indicators reflecting income, employment and demography from 1995-2008. The main difference is between regions with high population densities, low natural growth rate, and low unemployment (Russia, Norway and Iceland) and regions with high unemployment rate and high natural growth rate (mainly North-American regions). However, once those parameters were accounted for sub-regional differences start to emerge. Variation among the regions was a result of national policies and regional differences such as access and presence of natural resources (i.e. oil, gas, mining, etc.). We found only weak temporal trends, but regions with resource extraction show some signs of higher volatility. Overall, the Arctic has experienced outmigration with only Iceland and two regions in Canada experiencing in-migration.

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Community-led food resilience:A decolonizing autographic learning from an Inuit community

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2021

Global Food Security

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Social stratification through the capabilities approach: the case of the Inuit of Nunavik

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

Sharing-based social capital associated with harvest production and wealth in the Canadian Arctic

Sharing-based social capital associated with harvest production and wealth in the Canadian Arctic

Demographic and economic disparities among Arctic regions

Community-led food resilience:A decolonizing autographic learning from an Inuit community

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