Janet Tamalik McGrath, The Qaggiq Model: Toward a Theory of Inuktut Knowledge Renewal (Iqaluit: Nunavut Arctic College Media, 2019).

Janet Tamalik McGrath provides environmental media and infrastructure studies readers a reminder of how relational practices of reciprocity, and of just relations with the land, are lively and full of agency across Inuit ontologies. She generously offers an understanding of the slow, trust-filled relations she built with the Inuit Elder and philosopher Mariano Aupilarjuk of Avalitqurřuk, East Qitirmiut, Nunavut, and how this ‘method’ of listening performs a “craft epistemology” guided by “Inuk-centered processes that persist and resist colonial and capitalist forms” (196). By centering Inuk forms of knowledge production and revitalization in the space of the qaggiq (a communal igloo), Tamalik McGrath invites Southern readers into her articulation of an Inuktut worldview that values gaining experience as a path towards knowing. Her practice of listening to Aupilarjuk, where “the whole story is the point” (193), becomes a tangible praxis of gradual, deep relationality that pushes up against the speed and unidirectional flow of Southern media attention.  -- RR