Walled-In

Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls

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Walled-In

Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls

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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.

Table of Contents

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

Product details

Published Jun 27 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 226
ISBN 9781666959895
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 41 b/w photos;
Dimensions 237 x 158 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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