Les Inuit face aux changements climatiques et environnementaux

Abstract

The author presents a critical anthropological reading of some current debates regarding ecological and environmental issues in the Canadian Arctic. When modern society ceases to acknowledge the transcendental source of its legitimacy, it tends to substitute its own values and to impose them upon local populations by way of ethical and legal frameworks. Within the context of ongoing debates on climate warming, it is becoming more and more evident that Ecology and Law are acquiring a transcendental nature and that the policies they foster are giving rise to local resistance, thus creating the issue of a “cosmopolitical shock.”

Keywords

• climate change
• ecology
• Inuit
• cosmopolitics
• Canada