Published: Canadian Literature

“Following Isuma’s and other Inuit activists’ leads, I consider both Tungijuq and this impasse in terms of Inuit gift, an affective reminder of reciprocity, relationality, and obligation. As a film not fully comprehensible by way of settler positionality, and perhaps because of this, Tungijuq might offer affective bearing for deconstructing “largely lost” phenomenological orientations in and in context of Inuit Territories (Sheila Watt-Cloutier, qtd. in Callison 66). That is, rooted in Inuit sovereignty and normativity with the capacity for confounding settler perception, Tungijuq paradoxically might offer—give—the possibility of a radical (to settlers) ontology for deconstructing settler economics, being, and seeing in Inuit Territories.”

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