Emilie Ruffin

Université Laval, Géographie, Graduate Student

Institut national de la recherche scientifique, INRS - Urbanisation Culture Société, Membre du réseau DIALOG

Université Laval, Centre Interuniversitaire d' Études et de Recherches Autochtones, Graduate Student

Simon Fraser University, Archaeolgoy, Associate member of the IPinCH project

Cornell University, Urban Planning, Member of the Planners Network

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Community Building de Salluit :: les Sallumiut et l’urbanisme

Dupré, Florence et Aurélie Maire (Dir.), 2010, «De l'expérience de terrain dans les sciences sociales. Les Cahiers du CIÉRA 6», Québec: Université Laval-Ciéra.

by Aurélie Maire, Emilie Ruffin, Caroline Hervé, and Véronique Audet

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Focus on Cultural Tourism in Nunavik

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Urban planning of Northern Villages in Quebec studied through one example: Salluit, an Inuit Northern Village on Hudson Strait

Copenhague, Eskimology and Arctic Studies - Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Danemark. , 2009

This paper will approach the concept of urbanity on the basis of one housing project in Salluit, ... more This paper will approach the concept of urbanity on the basis of one housing project in Salluit, Nunavik. Focusing on the Salluit project, the concept of urbanity is deployed by investigating the territorialities of the inhabitants as well as their needs and aspirations for housing. The project is placed in a political and bureaucratic context of negotiations between the community and the legal representatives (regional, provincial and federal) of the Northern village. Therefore, the territorialities are expressed through these negotiations and the ensuing internal communication. For example, the urgent need for housing, the requirement for social and health services, for a stable political structure, a cultural platform and economic development in general are important to people in Salluit. In this way, the urbanity of Salluit are constituted by the cultural specificities of Salluit, the specific needs of community life (housing, facilities for daily living, services in health, structures for recreation, etc.), the requirements of organization in order to make life easier and more efficient, and for the local and regional administrations imperatives. In order to understand how urbanities emerge in the North the article discusses some of the urban attitudes and needs as well as territorialities in Salluit observed through the study of an Inuit residential project.

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