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38. Voices of Inuit leadership and self-determination in Canada / editedby David Lough

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador : ISER Books, 2020

209 pages ; 23 cm

Englisch

Chapters inspired by a conference, the 2016 Inuit Studies Conference,held in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. - Comprend des références bibliographiques

1-894725-69-7 (softcover); 978-1-894725-69-9 (softcover)

HM781

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LOC-SH: Community leadership -- Canada ; Inuit -- Canada ; Inuit -- Canada -- Politics and government ; Leadership -- Canada

Indigenous leaders - Canada ; Inuits - Canada ; Inuits - Canada - Politique et gouvernement ; Leadership autochtone - Canada ; Leadership communautaire - Canada ; Leadership - Canada ; Community leadership ; Inuit ; Inuit - Politics and government ; Leadership ; Canada

"This volume is a collection of reflections on Inuit leadership stimulated by The 2016 Inuit Studies conference held in St. John's, NL, and edited for publication by the authors in the ensuing months. What is compelling here is the broad range of perspectives brought to bear on the topic. This anthology joins voices that come from deep within Inuit society with voices that offer the perspective of external observation. These voices speak in future, present, and past tenses. From current visions of what Inuit leadership is and future challenges to the social and historical precedents which shaped it, a composite vision emerges: a vision which speaks to the meaning of Inuit leadership in twenty-first-century Canada. These perspectives converge in a pattern of complementation rather than opposition, a layering of different ways of seeing and knowing that enrich understanding as they bump into and complete one another and interlock. The very diversity of voices heard here becomes the strength of the whole as a composite picture of Inuit leadership grows. These are the voices of both Inuit and non-Inuit, united in their commitment to understanding what Inuit leadership is, has been, and will be. Among the Inuit voices are those of leaders themselves, both present and future. We also hear from Inuit witnesses to leadership: knowledge-bearers, community stewards, questioners, activists, and observant individuals. The non-Inuit voices include academic researchers who have observed and analyzed Inuit leadership across decades and non-Inuit knowledge-workers who have spent careers working in the north, assisting in the development of social and political structures in whichInuit leadership has prospered."--