Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott

Walled-In (eBook, ePUB)

Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Walls profoundly shape the spaces we live in and the places we move through, impinge on our everyday lives, and entangle power relations, identity, and hierarchies. Walled-In: Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls explores these effects in the context of Arviat, Nunavut. Van den Scott lays out the inherent social processes, arguing that walls, in addition to concealing colonial power relations, are boundary objects, cultural objects, and technological objects. Van den Scott's ethnography of Arviammiut's (people of Arviat's) contemporary lived experiences reveals the ways in which Arviammiut are living in a foreign space, how this impacts their experiences, and how they exercise agency in navigating and reinventing these spaces in resilient and heterogenous ways.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666959901
• Artikelnr.: 74939446

Autorenporträt

Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott is associate professor of sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Foreword, by Patsy Kowtak Kuksuk
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. A Sociology of Walls
Part I: Walls as Boundary Objects: Identity-Work Abounds
Chapter 2. Ujjirusuttiarniq amma Isumatunikkut Tukisiniarniq [Having an
Awareness and Seeking to Understand]: Anomie and Geographies of Knowledge
Chapter 3. Pilimmaksarniq [Skills and Knowledge Acquisition]: Transmission
of Knowledge and Sewing
Part II: Walls as Cultural Objects: Culture in Material Form
Chapter 4. Aktuaturaunniqarniq amma Inuuqatigiitsiarniq [Interconnectedness
and Interpersonal Relationships]: Family, Connected Spaces, and Memory
Chapter 5. Piliriqatigiingniq [Working Together]: Performing Food
Consumption to the Walls
Part III: Walls as Technological Objects
Chapter 6. Piniarnikkut Ilittiniq [Learning to Do]: Passive
Engagement-Notions of Public and Private
Chapter 7. Qanuqtuurungnarniq [Being Resourceful to Solve Problems]: Active
Engagement: Walls as Storage
Conclusion
References
About the Author