Research summary
Intercultural relations play an essential role in the development of northern Quebec. Dr. Laurie Guimond, Canada Research Chair With Northern Living Environments, is interested in intercultural cohabitation in northern living environments, not only in existing communities but on ancestral lands as well.
Guimond and her research team are examining the practices, representations and knowledges that are entrenched in Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, ancestral lands, transient establishments (worker camps), and abandoned communities of northern Quebec. They are co-constructing knowledge in three categories: the inhabited north, migrations and mobility, and intercultural cohabitation. The team’s detailed geographic analyses of northern territories and living conditions will help to provide the greater social and territorial justice that is needed for the sustainability of northern communities.