Is the Arctic really urbanising

Bibliographic Data

ID3800902
AuthorsSusanne Dybbroe (Aarhus University)
Year2009
Volume32
Issue1
Pages13-32
Publication date2009-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueÉtudes/Inuit/Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0701-1008 • E-ISSN: 1708-5268
PublisherConsortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.7202/029817ar
OpenAlexW2109589900
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited9

The anthropology of the Arctic (Inuit) societies is increasingly acknowledging a general urbanising trend throughout the region, encompassing small-scale, localized, communities as well as towns and cities. Inuit migrate to cities outside the Arctic and live in the North under circumstances strongly tinged by urbanism. Policy and academic literature suggests that there is an increasingly close relation between Arctic residents and cities. After an historic overview of permanent settlement in Nunavut and Greenland to illustrate the structural integration of Arctic societies, this article points to the fact that urbanisation follows historically specific trajectories and creates different urban situations. The author discusses the relevance of the concepts "urbanisation" and "urbanism" to the Arctic, and proposes an urban anthropological perspective that offers a productive way to approach the globalised social and cultural realities of the contemporary Arctic

Archaeology · Arctic · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Human settlement · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Settlement (finance · Sociology · The arctic · Urbanism · Urbanization · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Architecture · Geology · Oceanography

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