The Northern Review

Exploring human experience in the North

The Northern Review is a peer-reviewed open access journal publishing research and book reviews that explore human experience in, and thought about, the North, including the territorial and provincial Norths of Canada and the Circumpolar North.

The journal, published by the School of Liberal Arts at Yukon University, is the only peer-reviewed publication in Canada devoted exclusively to northern issues and published north of 60. Since 1988, we have published articles covering a broad range of human issues and topics in the social sciences, humanities, health, law, and the arts.

The editors invite research articles and book reviews relating to human experience in, and thought about, the Circumpolar North.

Links below guide you to the journal's open access content on our Open Journal Systems site: thenorthernreview.ca

Questions? Email Deanna McLeod, Managing Editor

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Current Issue

Cover of The Northern Review issue 56, featuring a painting of northern lights and stars above a forest

Number 56 | 2024
https://doi.org/10.22584/nr56.2024.100
Includes Special Collection: Media Representations of the Arctic
Guest Editor Mathieu Landriault
Cover artist: Doug Rutherford | Boreal Night
December 2024

Forthcoming Issue

Number 57 | 2025
Special Issue
Exploring Northern Economic Development
June 2025

Back Issues
Number 55 | 2024 https://doi.org/10.22584/nr55.2024.100 General Issue Cover artist: Amanda Graham | Let's Tag the Scientists April 2024 Number 54 | 2023 https://doi.org/10.22584/nr54.2023.100 General Issue Cover artist: Kaylyn Baker kaylynbakerdesigns.com June 2023 Number 53 | 2022 https://doi.org/10.22584/nr53.2022.100 Special Issue Indigenous Self-Determination through Mitho Pimachesowin: Perspectives from Northern Saskatchewan Guest edited by Bonita Beatty, University of Saskatchewan Cover artist: Bonita Beatty | Kiwetinohk Pimachesowin (Northern Way of Life) December 2022 Number 52 | 2021 https://doi.org/10.22584/nr52.2021.100 General Issue Cover artist: Bronwen Duncan | Busy Beavers December 2021 Number 51 | 2021 https://doi.org/10.22584/nr51.2021.100 General Issue Cover artist: Amber Church | Yukon Ecoregions Spring 2021 Number 50 | 2020 https://doi.org/10.22584/nr50.2020.100 Law in the Canadian North Guest edited by Chief Justice Ron Veale, Justice Suzanne Duncan, Ken Coates & Bruce Warnsby Cover artist: Martha J. Ritchie | "Trees II" Published online and in print April 2020 Number 49 | 2019 https://doi.org/10.22584/nr49.2019.100 General articles & book reviews Special Collection: Place Based Sustainability Research in the Provincial North Guest edited by Rebecca Schiff, Lakehead University Cover Artist: Paul Josie | "Sunrise on the Porcupine River/Ch’oodeenjik, Yukon" Published online February 20, 2020 Number 48 | 2018 https://doi.org/10.22584/nr48.2018.100 General Issue Cover artist: Leslie Leong | “High Altitude e-Scape” Published online October 18, 2018 Number 47 | 2018 https://doi.org/10.22584/nr47.2018.100 Dealing with Resource Development in Canada's North Guest edited by Chris Southcott Cover artist: Dennis Shorty | “My dad and our dog team” Published online August 3, 2018 and in print September 2018 Number 46 | 2017 https://doi.org/10.22584/nr46.2017.100 Northern Literature Guest edited by Maureen Long, Eric Heyne, Andrew Richardson & Jamella Hagen Cover artist: Lara Melnik | un petit bouchon Published online December 2017 and in print January 2018 Number 45 | 2017 https://doi.org/10.22584/nr45.2017.004 Innovation in the Circumpolar North Guest edited by Heather Hall Cover artist: Jennifer Eakins. Icefield Discovery Camp, in the shadow of Mt. Logan, Kluane National Park, Yukon. Published online June 29, 2017 Number 44 | 2017 https://doi.org/10.22584/nr44.2017.100 The North & The First World War Guest edited by Brent Slobodin & Ken Coates Cover Photo: A large crowd greets Captain George Black, Commissioner of the Yukon, when he returns to Dawson City, 8 June 1916. Gates Collection. Published online and in print April 2017 Number 43 | 2016 Includes special collection Nursing Education in the Circumpolar North Guest edited by Heather Exner-Pirot Cover artist: Lianne Marie Leda Charlie, Wolf Clan, Tagé Cho Hudän | Big River People "Tagé Cho | Big River" Published online December 5, 2016 Number 42 | 2016 https://doi.org/10.22584/nr42.2016.100 Includes special collection Northern Inequalities: Global Processes, Local Legacies Guest edited by Andrew Hodgkins and Barret Weber Cover artist: Mrs. Annie Smith, "Women's Mitts" Published online July 6, 2016 Number 41 | 2015 https://doi.org/10.22584/nr41.2015.100 Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic Guest edited by Chris Southcott Cover photo: Syd Cannings Number 40 | 2015 General issue Cover artist: Nicole Bauberger, Detail from "Whitehorse to Inuvik, #17" Number 39 | 2015 Consultation and Resource Development in Northern Communities: Russia, Scandinavia, and Canada Guest edited by Greg Poelzer Articles also available in Russian Cover artist: Owen Munroe, "The Face of Force" Number 38 | 2014 Includes special collection: Political and Economic Change in Canada’s Provincial North Guest edited by Ken Coates and Greg Poelzer Cover artist: Daphne Mennell, "Wild Crocuses, First Kiss of Spring" Number 37 | Fall 2013 Includes special collection: The Arctic Council, the EU and Polar Politics: Canada, France, Germany, Russia & the UK Guest edited by Frances Abele, Carleton University Cover artist: Stephanie Ryan, "Ben-My-Chree Gardens" Number 36 (Fall 2012) General issue Number 35 (Spring 2012) Tourism and Travel in the Circumpolar North Number 34 (Fall 2011) General issue Number 33 (Spring 2011) Canada’s Role in the Circumpolar World Number 32 (Spring 2010) General issue Number 31 (Fall 2009) Literary issue: Northern poetry, fiction, and essays Number 30 (Spring 2009) The Social Economy of Northern Canada Number 29 (Fall 2008) The Northern Research Institute. Fifteen years of building Yukon research capacity. Number 28 (Spring 2008) Rapid landscape change and human response in the Arctic and Subarctic. Number 27 (Fall 2007) Festschrift in Honour of Aron Senkpiel. Number 25/26 (Summer 2005) Includes special collection on governance in the provincial norths. Please check our archives for content from Numbers 1 through 24.