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- Title
Narratives of Displacement and Trauma: The Tuberculosis Epidemic among the Inuit of Nunavik in the 1940s–1950s.
- Authors
OLOFSSON, EBBA; FOLCO, JOSEPH
- Abstract
The Inuit of Canada have suffered from a plethora of governmental interventions including relocations, residential schooling, and forced hospitalisation due to the tuberculosis epidemic. The hospitalisation of Inuit had a detrimental effect on individuals through physical abuse, disconnection from language and culture, and being removed from their families and communities. These government interventions are examples of structural violence that potentially cause both individual and collective trauma and are recounted through the personal narratives of Inuit Elders. In addition, the ethical concerns of conducting anthropological fieldwork on trauma and memory are investigated.
- Subjects
NUNAVIK (Quebec); TUBERCULOSIS; PHYSICAL abuse; FAMILIES; VIOLENCE
- Publication
Journal of Northern Studies, 2020, Vol 14, Issue 1, p62
- ISSN
1654-5915
- Publication type
Article