Walled-In: Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls - Hardcover
Walled-In: Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls - Hardcover
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by Lisa-Jo K. Van Den Scott (Author), Patsy Kowtak Kuksuk (Foreword by)
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.
Author Biography
Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott is associate professor of sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
