Fabienne Joliet is a professor at the Pôle Paysage of the Institut Agro Rennes-Angers.
She studies landscapes and modes of naturalness according to cultures through the use of photography or video, 'portraits' that trigger narratives.
Since 2008, she has been travelling through the territory of Nunavik, where she meets communities (Inuit, Cree) with whom she develops projects to update and transmit their own vision and practice of landscapes beyond the Western myth of the Great White Arctic.
These representations can collide, in the preservation projects of the National Parks (Tursujuq) as well as in the development projects (urbanization). From Wilderness to indigenous holistic naturalities, Fabienne Joliet coordinates the Nuna programme ("our land" in Inuktitut). Together with Laine Chanteloup and Thora Herrmann, they have been organising participatory video workshops on the theme of 'nuna' in Nunavik since 2015 with teenagers, the leaders of tomorrow.
These short films constitute the research data of the programme as well as a tool of visual sovereignty for indigenous communities undertaking the path of self-determination. Since the beginning of the Nuna program, 5 Nunavik communities have participated and produced a 10-minute short film: Whapmagoostui, Kuujjuaarapik, Umiujaq, Ivujivik, Kangiqsujuaq.
Collaborative projects
ANR Interarctic. 2018-2023 « Un millénaire d’interactions entre sociétés et environnement en zone arctique et subarctique (Canada et Groenland). ». WP4 : Interactions of Inuit with their local environment through collaborative research with youth: memory, perceptions, practices and prospects, Nunavik-Groenland.