Inuit co-ops: From government intervention to self-determination

Authors

Leanne Unruh

Leanne Unruh is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social and Political Thought at York University. Her dissertation focuses on artist cooperatives in Canada, combining her background in contemporary art history with work and volunteer experience in cooperatives. Her dissertation work includes both
collecting demographic information about artist co-ops to understand how artists are using this model to meet their collective needs, and positioning artist co-ops as a way of flipping the contemporary prioritization of economic over social needs.

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