Risky Futures : : Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North / / ed. by Olga Ulturgasheva, Barbara Bodenhorn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Bodenhorn, Barbara,; Bravo, Michael,; Hovden, Astrid,; Nutaaq Ayałhuq Naŋinaaq Edwardson, Rachel,; Rasmus, Stacy M.,; Schweitzer, Peter,; Ulturgasheva, Olga,
• HerausgeberIn: Callison, Candis,; Diemberger, Hildegard,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the Circumpolar North ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)

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 eco...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction. On Constellations and Connected-Up Thinking in the Face of the Future
• Chapter 1. Activating Cosmo-Geo-Analytics: Anthropocene, Arctics and Cryocide
• Chapter 2. ‘Tears of the Earth’: Human–Permafrost Entanglements and Science–Indigenous Knowledge Encounters in Northeast Siberia
• Chapter 3. She’ll Do What She Needs to Do
• Chapter 4. Weathering the Storm: An Indigenous Knowledge Framework of Yup’ik Youth Well-Being and Resilience in Alaska
• Chapter 5. Journalism in Canada’s Northern Territories: Digital Media, Civic Spaces, Indigenous Publics
• Chapter 6. People of the Cryosphere: A Cross-Regional, Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Icescapes in a Changing Climate
• Chapter 7. Risky Decisions, Precarious Moralities: The Case of Autumn Whaling in Barrow, Alaska
• Afterword. Risk Constellations and the Politics of Polarity
• Index