Many local communities and peoples directly impacted by anti-sealing activism in the Arctic and sub-Arctic report that their experiences with activists were (and continue to be) personally, culturally and professionally harmful, arguably amounting to cultural violence (Burke, 2023; Burke, 2021; Burke, 2020). But what does it mean to be non-violent? To get a better since of the complexity of the term “non-violence” in environmental and animal rights activism, …

First stop: fieldwork at the Norwegian-Canadian seal processing business – Carino. Learn more about the experience, including the work ongoing at Carino to preserve, protect and promote irreplaceable traditional sealing/fishing knowledge