Collaborative management, differential discourse, and youth engagement; a case study of Auyuittuq National Park, Nunavut
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2016
Authors
Brown, Amy D.
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The collaborative management arrangements in place for Nunavut’s National Parks demonstrated a shifting trend in Canadian resource management, where Indigenous
people are increasingly involved in the governance of traditional lands. This work
considered the arrangement in place for Auyuittuq National Park, Nunavut, by exploring
the effect that differential discourse had on policy formation and implementation. To
focus the research on a single management issue youth engagement was selected for
consideration. Employing a qualitative case study strategy of inquiry, data was collected
by conducting 50 interviews and 7 focus groups in the park adjacent community of
Pangnirtung. The project findings indicated that the Parks Canada Agency’s discourse
maintained a dominant position within the management process, such that many of the
youth engagement strategies implemented did not account for Inuit cultural practices. As
a consequence of this omission, many of the implemented methods were unintuitive to
the community, and in some cases served as a barrier to youth participation.
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Collaborative management, The Parks Canada Agency, Nunavut, Inuit, Indigenous, Public consultation, Cultural values, Youth Engagement