Risky futures climate, geopolitics and local realities in the uncertain circumpolar North

"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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ulturgasheva, Olga (Editor), Bodenhorn, Barbara (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Berghahn Books 2022©2022, 2022
Series:Studies in the circumpolar North
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Introduction. On constellations and connected up thinking in the face of the future / Barbara Bodenhorn and Olga Ulturgasheva
  • Activating cosmo-geo-analytics : anthropocene, arctics and cryocide / Olga Ulturgasheva and Barbara Bodenhorn
  • 'Tears of the earth' : human-permafrost entanglements and science-Indigenous Knowledge encounters in northeast Siberia / Olga Ulturgasheva
  • She'll do what she needs to do / Rachel Nutaaq Ayalhuq Naninaaq Edwardson
  • Weathering the storm : an Indigenous Knowledge framework of Yup'ik youth well-being and resilience in Alaska / Stacy M. Rasmus
  • Journalism in Canada's northern territories : digital media, civic spaces, Indigenous publics / Candis Callison
  • People of the cryosphere : a cross-regional, cross-disciplinary approach to icescapes in a changing climate / Hildegard Diemberger and Astrid Hovden
  • Risky decisions, precarious moralities : the case of autumn whaling in Barrow, Alaska / Barbara Bodenhorn
  • Afterword. Risk constellations and the politics of polarity / Michael Bravo