Nordicity and its relevance for northern Canadian infrastructure development

IF 2 Q3 GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL Polar Geography Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI:10.1080/1088937X.2021.1995066
Katharina Koch
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ABSTRACT Infrastructure development in Canada’s northern regions remains a challenge. Although scholars and policy-makers recognize the significant socio-economic potential of northern infrastructure, the prevailing piecemeal approach does not respond to many of the challenges faced by Indigenous communities. A pan-Canadian approach, such as a Northern Corridor, can circumvent some of the disadvantages stemming from fractured and uncoordinated initiatives but it still underlies the diverse environmental and socio-economic conditions across the Canadian North. The Nordicity index, originally developed by Hamelin, reflects northern Canada’s diversity and has been applied as a public policy tool, e.g. for determining northern living allowances or adapted for transportation development. However, these indices are spatio-temporally fixed which means they do not recognize changing spatial patterns of northern mobility. Thus, this paper argues that northern infrastructure development should be informed by Indigenous spatial practices of mobility. To this aim, the paper investigates the role of Nordicity in Canadian policy-making and analyses how northern Indigenous spatial practices of mobility have transformed throughout the last century. The Nordicity index recognizes the environmental and socio-economic conditions across Canada’s diverse northern regions but it should be complemented with an analysis of the spatial practices of northern Indigenous Peoples to inform future infrastructure development.
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北欧及其与加拿大北部基础设施发展的相关性
加拿大北部地区的基础设施发展仍然是一个挑战。尽管学者和政策制定者认识到北部基础设施的巨大社会经济潜力,但普遍采用的零零碎碎的方法并不能应对土著社区面临的许多挑战。一个泛加拿大的方法,如北部走廊,可以避免由于支离破碎和不协调的倡议而产生的一些不利因素,但它仍然是加拿大北部不同的环境和社会经济条件的基础。最初由Hamelin开发的北欧指数反映了加拿大北部的多样性,并已被用作公共政策工具,例如用于确定北部生活津贴或用于交通发展。然而,这些指数在时空上是固定的,这意味着它们不能识别北方流动的空间格局变化。因此,本文认为,北方基础设施的发展应借鉴本土的流动性空间实践。为此,本文调查了北欧在加拿大政策制定中的作用,并分析了上个世纪北部原住民的流动空间实践是如何转变的。北欧指数承认加拿大北部不同地区的环境和社会经济条件,但它应该辅以对北部土著人民空间实践的分析,为未来的基础设施发展提供信息。
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Polar Geography
Polar Geography GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL-
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期刊介绍: Polar Geographyis a quarterly publication that offers a venue for scholarly research on the physical and human aspects of the Polar Regions. The journal seeks to address the component interplay of the natural systems, the complex historical, political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and security issues, and the interchange amongst them. As such, the journal welcomes comparative approaches, critical scholarship, and alternative and disparate perspectives from around the globe. The journal offers scientists a venue for publishing longer papers such as might result from distillation of a thesis, or review papers that place in global context results from coordinated national and international efforts currently underway in both Polar Regions.
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