Risky futures : climate, geopolitics and local realities in the uncertain circumpolar North / edited by Olga Ulturgasheva and Barbara Bodenhorn.

"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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Online Access: Full Text (via JSTOR)
Other Authors: Ulturgasheva, Olga (Editor), Bodenhorn, Barbara, 1946- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2022.
Series:Studies in the Circumpolar North ; v. 6.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.