1. Accountability and Representativeness: Northern Indigenous Peoples and ENGOs in Arctic Politics
Presenter: Danita Catherine Burke
University of Southern Denmark
Date: 9 August 2018
Event: NACS-XII Exploring Canada: Exploits and Encounters Conference Programme - Panel 4: Society & Politics I
Note: This is based on preliminary research. Please do not quote without the author’s permission.
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2. Greenpeace as a potential partner
This paper argues that Greenpeace is slowly learning from its past mishandling of relationship opportunities with indigenous peoples in the North.
Key: Indigenous peoples are becoming more politically and legally empowered in Canada and, while some are open to potential partnerships with Greenpeace, Greenpeace’s legitimacy in these partnership comes as a supporting player.
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3. Partnership Style
A partnership is a temporary endeavour between two or more parties
Greenpeace founded in 1971 in Canada
Outsider image
Direct action
Professionalization in the 1990s; accused of selling out
Insider-out model of partnerships: combination of adversarial and collaborative tactics
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4. Legacy: Greenpeace and Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic
Campaigns:
Seal Hunt
Forestry – Great Northern Forest Campaign
Apologies: 1 step forward, 2 steps back
INGO with global audience
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5. Future Work – Dynamics of the Clyde River Partnership
Interviews in Canada in October-November 2018
Ottawa, Toronto, All three territories
Interviews throughout the Arctic and in Amsterdam (Headquarters of Greenpeace International) in Autumn 2018 and Winter 2018/9-Spring 2019
Photo of Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario; taken by Danita Catherine Burke, May 2016
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6. Acknowledgements
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No
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