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Risky Futures [electronic book] : Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North / edited by Olga Ulturgasheva.

Contributor(s): Ulturgasheva, Olga [editor].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Studies in the Circumpolar North: 6Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: online resource (236 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781800735934 (hardback); 9781805390640 (e-Book).Subject(s): Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Arctic regions | Climatic changes -- Political aspects -- Arctic regions | Arctic regions -- Environmental conditionsDDC classification: 363.738 Online resources: e-Book
Contents:
Introduction: on constellations and the connected-up thinking in the face of the future -- Activating cosmo-geo-analytics: anthropocene, arctics and cryocide -- Tears of the Earth: human-permafrost entanglements and science-indigenous knowledge encounters in Northeast Siberia -- She'll do what she needs to do -- Weathering the storm: an indigenous knowledge framework of Yup'ik youth well-being and resilience in Alaska -- Journalism in Canada's Northern Territories: digital media, civic spaces, indigenous publics -- People of the Cryosphere: a cross regional cross-disciplinary approach to icescapes in a changing climate -- Risky decisions, precarious moralities: the case of autumn whaling in Barrow, Alaska.
Summary: 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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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: on constellations and the connected-up thinking in the face of the future -- Activating cosmo-geo-analytics: anthropocene, arctics and cryocide -- Tears of the Earth: human-permafrost entanglements and science-indigenous knowledge encounters in Northeast Siberia -- She'll do what she needs to do -- Weathering the storm: an indigenous knowledge framework of Yup'ik youth well-being and resilience in Alaska -- Journalism in Canada's Northern Territories: digital media, civic spaces, indigenous publics -- People of the Cryosphere: a cross regional cross-disciplinary approach to icescapes in a changing climate -- Risky decisions, precarious moralities: the case of autumn whaling in Barrow, Alaska.

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.

Electronic reproduction.: Knowledge Unlatched. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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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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