Lamenting for the land with Ashlee Cunsolo

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Lamenting for the land with Ashlee Cunsolo

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Mar 10, 2022

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We talk with Ashlee Cunsolo, founding dean of the School of Arctic and Subarctic Studies at the Labrador Campus of Memorial University, about the connective capacity of grief, the role of land in Inuit mental health research, and the relationship between agency and letting go. Ashlee's site: https://ashleecunsolo.ca/

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Mar 10, 2022

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