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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.
“Risky Futures will be of great interest to scholars in climate science, environmental anthropology, and research ethics, as well as Indigenous studies, public health, journalism, and the social sciences. It provides an urgent roadmap for global environmental justice that challenges the ongoing exclusion of Indigenous expertise and places Indigenous communities at the centre of decision-making and strategic planning for the present and future of the cryosphere and beyond.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
“What holds the book together with a generosity of spirit and hope are the stories told within its chapters. Not only are these important documentary pieces, they also illustrate how material experiences and shared wisdom become enfolded into animistic worldviews… Whilst this book does not purport to tell all the stories, nor offer them as a panacea for the climate crisis, it is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the circumpolar North celebrates—its liveliness, difference, and resilience.” • Sibirica
“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
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).
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