Date and time
Monday 16th March 2009
6pm
Location
Room 214, New Academic Building, LSE
Iqualit, City of Sovereignties
Speaker
Prof Rob Shields (Sociology/Art and Design, University of Alberta)
Discussant(s)
Alan Latham (Geography, UCL)
How is a city on Baffin Island, an arctic capital even, changing Arctic sovereignties? Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, in Canada’s high Arctic, is a point of contact between traditional circumpolar Inuit mobilities and newer global flows and knowledge constructions.
This talk considers the emergence and impact of Iqaluit as a cultural and political centre for notions of sovereignty and metropolitan visions of the Arctic as a white wilderness.
