Katherine Sinclair, PhD Student, Anthropology
katherine.sinclair [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email)
Project Title:聽Policy and Local Engagement: Mining in Arctic聽Canada
Project Description:
My doctoral research focuses on the ways in聽which resource extraction policies intersect with northern Inuit聽interests and priorities, comparing the different understandings聽of and approaches to mining. Specifically, it examines how policy聽created in Ottawa is incorporated or resisted by Inuit when聽conceptualizing land use and identity.
Research Interests:聽Arctic Canada, resource extraction policy,聽Inuit land use and identity, northern/southern Canadian聽relations, Nunavut
Geographic Focus:聽Nunavut, Arctic Canada
Main Supervisor:聽Dr. Colin Scott
Previous Education:
MPhil Social Anthropological Analysis聽(University of Cambridge),
BA Honours Religious Studies聽(University of Alberta)
Publication History:
Sinclair, Katherine. 鈥淪acred Exchanges鈥�, review of Sacred聽Exchanges: Images in Global Context, by Robyn Ferrell. 痴颈蝉耻补濒听厂迟耻诲颈别蝉, late 2012 or early 2013.
Sinclair, Katherine. 鈥淐anada and the Changing Arctic鈥�, review聽of Canada and the Changing Arctic: Sovereignty, Security, and聽Stewardship, by Franklyn Griffiths, Rob Huebert, and P. Whitney聽Lackenbauer. Arctic, December 2012.