How do we reimagine a modern workplace that is cohesive with Inuit ways of being? Patricia Johnson-Castle is Nunatsiavut Inuk, as well as of German and English descent. Raised urban Inuk in St. Johns, Newfoundland, she returned to her home territory in 2019 to work for the Nunatsiavut Government and observed a complex challenge: fitting Inuit culture into Western corporate structures.
Her policy paper, Sivumulâvugut: (Re)Making Inuit Workplaces asks: what makes for a healthy workplace in an Inuit context; what are the challenges for achieving that sort of vision; and can they be overcome? Over the course of two years, she interviewed 13 Inuit women across the four regions of Inuit Nunangat, exploring the questions above in the intersectional context of being a woman and Inuit in the workplace.
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9 ноя 2023
