In this Brief, Patricia Johnson-Castle examines how capitalist policy frameworks continue to shape life in Inuit Nunangat — often at odds with Inuit ways of living and community responsibility. She asks what it would mean to stop adapting Southern “solutions” and instead imagine public policy that reflects the realities, values, and scale of the North..
As many anticipate a post-COVID, return to ‘normal’, authors Elisa Levi and Hayley Lapalme draw attention to health inequities and structural issues which continue to undermine the well-being of Indigenous peoples, particularly through restricted self-determination in relation to food security.
Getting Back to Normal? Not if “Normal” means Indigenous Food and Health Insecurity Read More »
Operating alongside the many challenges of COVID-19 is food insecurity, which has long been a significant problem in many Indigenous communities. Few of the current emergency measures that have been enacted by the federal government will substantively address this long term and ongoing problem.
Based in the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University.