Overview

The volume examines complex intersections of environmental conditions, geopolitical tensions and local innovative reactions characterising ‘the Arctic’ in the early twenty-first century. What happens in the region (such as permafrost thaw or methane release) not only sweeps rapidly through local ecosystems but also has profound global implications. Bringing together a unique combination of authors who are local practitioners, indigenous scholars and international researchers, the book provides nuanced views of the social consequences of climate change and environmental risks across human and non-human realms.

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Author:   Olga Ulturgasheva ,  Barbara Bodenhorn
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805397434

ISBN 10:   1805397435
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   01 December 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword Peter Schweitzer Acknowledgments Introduction: On Constellations and Connected Up Thinking in the Face of the Future Barbara Bodenhorn and Olga Ulturgasheva Chapter 1. Activating Cosmo-Geo-Analytics: Anthropocene, Arctics and Cryocide Olga Ulturgasheva and Barbara Bodenhorn Chapter 2. ‘Tears of the Earth’: Human-Permafrost Entanglements and Science-Indigenous Knowledge Encounters in Northeast Siberia Olga Ulturgasheva This chapter is based on the research funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 856543). It is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Chapter 3. She’ll Do What She Needs To Do Rachel Nutaaq Ayałhuq Naŋinaaq Edwardson Chapter 4. Weathering the Storm: An Indigenous Knowledge Framework of Yup’ik Youth Well-being and Resilience in Alaska Stacy Rasmus Chapter 5. Journalism in Canada’s Northern Territories: Digital Media, Civic Spaces, Indigenous Publics Candis Callison Chapter 6. People of the Cryosphere: a Cross-Regional, Cross-Disciplinary approach to Icescapes in a Changing Climate Hildegard Diemberger and Astrid Hovden Chapter 7. Risky Decisions, Precarious Moralities: The Case of Fall Whaling in Barrow, Alaska Barbara Bodenhorn Afterword Michael Bravo Index

Reviews

“Risky futures will be of great interest to scholars in climate science, environmental anthropology, and research ethics, as well as Indigenous studies, public health, journalism, and the social sciences. It provides an urgent roadmap for global environmental justice that challenges the ongoing exclusion of Indigenous expertise and places Indigenous communities at the centre of decision-making and strategic planning for the present and future of the cryosphere and beyond.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute “This is a very important book in Arctic studies. While many Arctic anthropologists and social science researchers have contributed to recent scholarship on risk, climate change, post-humanism and epistemological and ontological theory, this book is unique.” • Elizabeth Marino, Oregon State University “I read this book with interest and applaud the editors and authors in the forward-thinking and important initiative that inspired the book. It covers crucial and timely themes and gives a fresh perspective in that it connects across scales and jumbles up the dominant narratives of climate risk.” • Elana Wilson Rowe, Nord University

Author Information

Olga Ulturgasheva is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of Narrating the Future in Siberia: Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny (Berghahn Books 2012) and co-editor of Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia (Berghahn Books 2012).

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