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‘My appetite and mind would go’: Inuit perceptions of (im)mobility and wellbeing loss under climate change across Inuit Nunangat in the Canadian Arctic
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications ( IF 3.7 ) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 , DOI: 10.1057/s41599-024-02706-1
Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson , Anna Hoad , Mei L. Trueba

The academic literature on personal experiences of climate-induced wellbeing erosion (often conceptualised as ‘non-economic losses and damages’) is still limited. This represents a serious climate policy gap that hinders support for marginalised people across the world including Indigenous People. Lately, we have seen a rapid growth in empirical studies exploring linkages between climate change and mental health among Indigenous Inuit in Canada. However, its association with human (im)mobility remains unexplored. This review article brings together the empirical evidence of Inuit experiences and perceptions of climate-related wellbeing loss and (im)mobility while providing climate policy with guidance for appropriate action. The systematic review investigates how Inuit in Arctic Canada felt that climatic changes impacted their (im)mobility and mental health while putting these feelings into a wider context of colonial violence, forced child removal, the residential schools, and other systematic human rights abuses. Twelve electronic databases (four specific to Arctic research) were searched for English and French, peer reviewed, qualitative studies published between 2000 and 2021. Fifteen selected articles were analysed using NVivo and thematic narrative analysis from a climate-violence-health nexus systems approach. Three overarching climate-related wellbeing loss themes, all strongly intertwined with feelings of immobility, emerged from the literature namely ‘identity and cultural loss’, ‘land connection as a source of healing’, and ‘changing environment triggering emotional distress’. The narratives circled around Inuit land connection and how climate-induced temporary (im)mobility interrupted this relationship. Climatic changes isolated Inuit away from the land and cut off their ability to partake in land activities. This strongly eroded Inuit wellbeing, expressed through distress, anxiety, depression, social tension, suicide ideation and deep feelings of cultural loss. The findings showed how Inuit mental health strongly depend on a sustained connection to the land. Further empirical research among other Indigenous People or nomadic groups on wellbeing loss and climate-induced involuntary immobility is urgently needed. Future research should particularly explore how such mental health impacts tie into past and present (post)colonial traumas and current suicide occurrences. This will help climate policy, research, and adaptation planning better prepare and propose more contextually and culturally appropriate health actions in the future.



中文翻译:

“我的胃口和思想都会消失”:加拿大北极地区因纽特人努南加特地区因纽特人对气候变化导致的流动性和福祉损失的看法

关于气候引起的福祉侵蚀的个人经历(通常被概念化为“非经济损失和损害”)的学术文献仍然有限。这代表了严重的气候政策差距,阻碍了对包括土著人民在内的世界各地边缘化人群的支持。最近,我们看到探索气候变化与加拿大原住民因纽特人心理健康之间联系的实证研究迅速增长。然而,它与人类(不)流动性的关联仍未被探索。这篇综述文章汇集了因纽特人的经验以及对与气候相关的福祉损失和(不)流动性的看法的经验证据,同时为气候政策提供了适当行动的指导。该系统综述调查了加拿大北极地区的因纽特人如何看待气候变化影响他们的行动能力和心理健康,同时将这些感受置于更广泛的殖民暴力、强迫儿童迁移、寄宿学校和其他系统性侵犯人权行为的背景下。对 12 个电子数据库(其中四个专门针对北极研究)进行了英语和法语检索,并检索了 2000 年至 2021 年间发表的同行评审定性研究。使用 NVivo 和来自气候-暴力-健康关系系统方法的主题叙述分析对 15 篇选定的文章进行了分析。文献中出现了三个与气候相关的总体福祉损失主题,它们都与不动感紧密交织在一起,即“身份和文化损失”、“土地联系作为治愈的源泉”和“不断变化的环境引发情绪困扰”。这些叙述围绕因纽特人的土地联系以及气候引起的临时(不)流动性如何中断这种关系展开。气候变化使因纽特人与陆地隔绝,并切断了他们参与陆地活动的能力。这严重损害了因纽特人的福祉,表现为痛苦、焦虑、抑郁、社会紧张、自杀意念和深刻的文化失落感。研究结果表明,因纽特人的心理健康在很大程度上取决于与土地的持续联系。迫切需要对其他土著人民或游牧群体进行关于福祉损失和气候引起的非自愿不动的进一步实证研究。未来的研究应该特别探讨这种心理健康影响如何与过去和现在(后)殖民创伤和当前的自杀事件联系起来。这将有助于气候政策、研究和适应规划更好地准备和提出未来更加适合具体情况和文化的健康行动。

更新日期:2024-02-17
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