Return of the Sun - Suicide and Reclamation Among Inuit of Arctic Canada

The Return of the Sun shows how Indigenous communities can develop, on their own, successful suicide prevention strategies. Kral details how government colonialism disrupted Inuit lives, especially family lives.

List of contents

• 1. The Dynamics of Inuit Social Transformation


• 2. Colonial Impact on Family and Inuuqatigiingniq/Relatedness


• 3. "The Weight on Our Shoulders is Too Much, and We Are Falling": Suicide and Culture Change among Inuit Male Youth


• 4. Resistance and Reclamation


• 5. Communities Making a Difference: The Youth Take Action


• 6. Pikkunaqtuq and Footsteps into the Future


• References


• Index

About the author

Michael Kral, PhD, is a clinical/community/cultural psychologist and medical anthropologist working as an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, Wayne State University. He has also taught at the universities of Manitoba, Windsor, Yale, and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been conducting community-based participatory action research with Inuit in Nunavut, Canada for over 20 years. His research has looked at suicide, kinship, culture change, and youth resilience.

Summary

The Return of the Sun shows how Indigenous communities can develop, on their own, successful suicide prevention strategies. Kral details how government colonialism disrupted Inuit lives, especially family lives.

Additional text

The Return of the Sun builds a compelling case for an understanding of Inuit suicide as symbol of social suffering and function of the undeniable impacts of colonialism. The work provides fresh insights into the critical importance of contemporary efforts reclaiming Inuit self-determination and culture, and crucial advocacy for locally controlled, strengths-based cultural approaches for prevention of Inuit suicide.

Product details

• Authors: Michael J. Kral, Michael J. (Associate Professor Kral
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780190269333
• ISBN: 978-0-19-026933-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Advances in Community Psychology; Advances in Community Psychology; Advances in Community Psycholo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Nunavut, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, HISTORY / Canada / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Suicide, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Political activism, Indigenous Peoples, Social Work, Social, group or collective psychology, Political activism / Political engagement