The Social Economy Research Network of Northern Canada has four main research themes of study. Within each of these themes, research teams comprised of university researchers and social economy partners pursue a variety of research projects, assisted by student researchers.
Theme 1 Profile of the Social Economy in Northern Canada
Coordinated by Dr. Chris Southcott, Lakehead University
Theme 2 Resource regimes and the social economy in the North
Coordinated by Dr. Brenda Parlee, University of Alberta
Theme 3 The State and the social economy in the North
Coordinated by Dr. Frances Abele, Carleton University
Theme 4 Indigenous communities and the social economy
Coordinated by Dr. David Natcher, University of Saskatchewan
Project # |
Project Title |
Status |
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Profile of the Social Economy in the North;
Coordinated by Dr. Chris Southcott, Lakehead University
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Portraiture Survey of Social Economy Organizations |
Ongoing |
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Social Capital and Social Economy Development: Community Comparisons in Canada's North |
Project Completed |
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Social Economy and Gender in Canada's North Tomiko Hoshizaki and Chris Southcott, Lakehead University |
Project Completed |
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Resource Regimes and the Social Economy in the North; Coordinated by Dr. Brenda Parlee, University of Alberta |
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Impact of Participation in the Wage Economy on Traditional Harvesting, Dietary Patterns and Social Networks in the Inuvialuit Settlement region |
Project Completed |
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The Boom and Bust of Food Security |
Project Completed |
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The Meaning of Education for Inuvialuit in Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, Canada. |
Project Completed |
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Boom and Bust of Social Capital - Yellowknife |
Pending Completion |
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Community Hunts and Sharing Harvested Meat in Fort Good Hope, NWT |
Project Complete |
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The State and the Northern Social Economy - Coordinated by Dr. Frances Abele, Carleton University |
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History of Policy Initiatives |
Ongoing |
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Survey of Available Statistical Information Pertinent to Understanding the Northern Social Economy |
Project Completed |
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A Green Housing Development in Iqaluit - Social Economy Interaction with City, Territorial and Federal Governments Jerald Sabin and Frances Abele, Carleton University |
Project Completed |
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Building Empirically-Based Economic Models in the Arctic: A Look at Igloolik, NU |
Project Completed |
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The Role of Co-operative Enterprise in the Social Economy of Repulse Bay, Nunavut |
Project Completed |
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Evolution of the Social Economy in Yellowknife |
Project Completed |
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Housing and Being Homeless in Yellowknife |
Project Completed |
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Housing as a Dimension of Poverty in the Yukon |
Project Completed |
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Indigenous Communities and the Social Economy - |
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Rethinking the ‘Informal’ Economy of the Canadian North: Linkages Between Wildlife Harvesting and Income Support Programs |
Ongoing |
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Project 4b |
Examining the Northern Social Economy Through the Lens of Natural Resource Management in Labrador Carolina Tytleman, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Dr. David Natcher, University of Saskatchewan |
Ongoing |
Food Security and the Cross-Border Dimensions of the Vuntut Gwich'in Social Economy |
Project Completed |
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Subsistence and the Social Economy of the Nunatsiavutmiut |
Project Completed |
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Independent Projects |
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Contributions of Volunteering in Outdoor Recreation to the Social Economy in Whitehorse. |
Project Completed |
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Mining and the Social Economy in the Canadian North |
Project Completed |
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Yukon Asset Mapping Project and the Social Economy Coordinated by Dr. Robert Robson, Lakehead University |
Cancelled |
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The Relationship of the Social Economy to Community Development and Park Creation: A Case Study in Lutsel K'e, Northwest Territories. |
Project Completed |
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Co-operative Development in the Yukon |
Project Completed |
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The Role of Inuit Land Claim Organizations in the Northern Social Economy |
Ongoing |
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A Galleria of Co-operatives in the Canadian North |
Ongoing |
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Project 12 |
Co-operatives and Economic Development in Pond Inlet, Nunavut |
Cancelled |
Language, Place and Governance in Deline, Northwest Territories: Monitoring Persistence and Change in the Social Economy of a northern Community |
Project Completed |
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Project 14 | Housing and Homelessness in Labrador Dr. Rebecca Schiff, Labrador Institute and Memorial University of Newfoundland | Project Completed |