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

Risky Futures

Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North

Edited by Olga Ulturgasheva and Barbara Bodenhorn

Foreword by Peter Schweitzer
Afterword by Michael Bravo

234 pages, 7 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80073-593-4 Hb Published (August 2022)

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“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

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.

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).

Barbara Bodenhorn is an Emeritus Fellow at Pembroke College Cambridge and remains research active. She has worked on the North Slope of Alaska since 1980 and in rural Mexico since 2006.

Series: Volume 6, Studies in the Circumpolar North

Subject: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology

Area: Circumpolar

LC: GE160.A68 R57 2022

BISAC: NAT011000 NATURE/Environmental Conservation & Protection; SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC053000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Regional Studies

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Risky Futures

Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North

Edited by Olga Ulturgasheva and Barbara Bodenhorn

Foreword by Peter Schweitzer
Afterword by Michael Bravo

Series: Volume 6, Studies in the Circumpolar North

Subject: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology

Area: Circumpolar

This title is published as Open Access

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from Knowledge Unlatched.

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Risky Futures

Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North

Edited by Olga Ulturgasheva and Barbara Bodenhorn

Foreword by Peter SchweitzerAfterword by Michael Bravo

Series: Volume 6, Studies in the Circumpolar North

Subject: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology

Area: Circumpolar

This title is published as Open Access

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from Knowledge Unlatched.

Foreword by Peter Schweitzer
Afterword by Michael Bravo