Thea Luig is a PhD Candidate at the University of Alberta currently writing her doctoral work on ontological security in the context of life transformations and well-being. This work is based on more than a year of community-based participatory research in a Canadian sub-arctic Aboriginal community. Her research interests include phenomenology, visual anthropology, kinesiology, and medical anthropology, especially the anthropology of suffering and renewal and the role of movement and mobility in these experiences. Originally from Germany, she has been visiting and working in the Canadian north repeatedly for ten years. In 2008 she completed her Masters degree in on Discourse and Knowledge production in Aboriginal/Government relations in the Canadian North at the Free University of Berlin, Germany.
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