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Geometries of an Arctic Highway: Transforming the Last Frontier into a Global Resource Frontier
Principal Investigator: Bennett, Mia
Licensed Year(s): 2017 2016
Summary: In light of rapid environmental alterations due to climate change and the Canadian North’s history of boom-and-bust cycles, this research has two objectives. The first is to understand the perspectives of residents in Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk and government representatives in Yellowknife on the replacement of the seasonal ice road with a permanent all-weather road. The second is to discern who will ...


Take it From the Top
Principal Investigator: Robinson, Suzanne M
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2009 2008
Summary: The objective of this research is to conduct a community based research project that celebrates Northern life, share the North with the South and study the South from a Northern perspective. Also, expand the project to include personal films made by student researchers. This video project will be a participatory research project. Student collection methods will be questionnaires, focus groups, ...


Strengthening Canadian Capacity to Maintain a Stable Circumpolar World: Northerners’ Views on the Arctic Council and the Idea of a Domestic Version
Principal Investigator: Kikkert, Peter J
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: This licence is being issued for the scientific research application No.1044. This project will examine Northerners’ perspectives on how the Arctic Council might be enhanced to better serve circumpolar stakeholders in the twenty-first century, and how Northerners can be better engaged in priority-and agenda-setting on the domestic level. The researcher plans to conduct first-person int...


The Role of the Adult Educator in a cross-cultural Context: Adult Education in the NWT Context: Aurora Campus, Inuvik, Adult Basic Education
Principal Investigator: Sharkey, Irene
Licensed Year(s): 1998
Summary: I will mainly reflect on any experiences and review secondary sources. I will collect data through an exploration of my own practice as an educator and through an investigation of significant themes previously identified in the literature studied in the area of cross-cultural and adult education. The following themes will be considered farther for their relevance in organizing the investigation: D...


Mythical/Material: The Pragmatic Artistry of Inuit Autobiography
Principal Investigator: Blake, Dale
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: I would like to obtain information about the context from which Inuit autobiographers wrote. Therefore I wish to tape interviews with the relatives and acquaintances of French and Thrasher. I also wish to interview outsiders who have settled in the North, to provide me with more material to critique stereotypical views of the North and Inuit, a main thrust of my thesis....


The News Void in the Northwest Territories and Its Cultural Implications
Principal Investigator: Schutta, Susan
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: The Project will involve interviews with southern trained news gatherers and disseminators as well as members of the native community. Interviews will focus on the options Northerners have to creating and disseminating news in the North....


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