Cetaceousness and Global Warming Among the Inupiat of Arctic Alaska
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Cetaceousness and global warming among the Inupiat of Arctic Alaska.
Author | : Chie Sakakibara |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816529612 |
As a mythical creature, the whale has been responsible for many transformations in the world. It is an enchanting being that humans have long felt a connection to. In the contemporary environmental imagination, whales are charismatic megafauna feeding our environmentalism and aspirations for a better and more sustainable future. Using multispecies ethnography, Whale Snow explores how everyday the relatedness of the Iñupiat of Arctic Alaska and the bowhead whale forms and transforms “the human” through their encounters with modernity. Whale Snow shows how the people live in the world that intersects with other beings, how these connections came into being, and, most importantly, how such intimate and intense relations help humans survive the social challenges incurred by climate change. In this time of ecological transition, exploring multispecies relatedness is crucial as it keeps social capacities to adapt relational, elastic, and resilient. In the Arctic, climate, culture, and human resilience are connected through bowhead whaling. In Whale Snow we see how climate change disrupts this ancient practice and, in the process, affects a vital expression of Indigenous sovereignty. Ultimately, though, this book offers a story of hope grounded in multispecies resilience.
Author | : Peter Lourie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : 9781428733084 |
The Iñupiat people of Alaska's North Slope must learn to adjust to a changing climate that threatens to disrupt their ancient culture.
Author | : Douglas Nakashima |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2018-10-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 110834044X |
This unique transdisciplinary publication is the result of collaboration between UNESCO's Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) programme, the United Nations University's Traditional Knowledge Initiative, the IPCC, and other organisations. Chapters, written by indigenous peoples, scientists and development experts, provide insight into how diverse societies observe and adapt to changing environments. A broad range of case studies illustrate how these societies, building upon traditional knowledge handed down through generations, are already developing their own solutions for dealing with a rapidly changing climate and how this might be useful on a global scale. Of interest to policy-makers, social and natural scientists, and indigenous peoples and experts, this book provides an indispensable reference for those interested in climate science, policy and adaptation.
Author | : Joanne Barker |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2017-03-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822373165 |
Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and epistemology. Several essays use a range of literary and legal texts to analyze the production of colonial space, the biopolitics of “Indianness,” and the collisions and collusions between queer theory and colonialism within Indigenous studies. Others address the U.S. government’s criminalization of traditional forms of Diné marriage and sexuality, the Iñupiat people's changing conceptions of masculinity as they embrace the processes of globalization, Hawai‘i’s same-sex marriage bill, and stories of Indigenous women falling in love with non-human beings such as animals, plants, and stars. Following the politics of gender, sexuality, and feminism across these diverse historical and cultural contexts, the contributors question and reframe the thinking about Indigenous knowledge, nationhood, citizenship, history, identity, belonging, and the possibilities for a decolonial future. Contributors. Jodi A. Byrd, Joanne Barker, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Mishuana Goeman, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Melissa K. Nelson, Jessica Bissett Perea, Mark Rifkin
Author | : Charles P. Wohlforth |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0865476594 |
With grace, clarity, and a sense of adventure, Wohlforth--a lifelong Alaskan--illuminates traditional Eskimo and modern scientific ways of seeing a world in flux, and in the process, helps readers to navigate a way through current climate changes.
Author | : Sarah Jaquette Ray |
Publisher | : University of Alaska Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1602233195 |
For millennia, “the North” has held a powerful sway in Western culture. Long seen through contradictions—empty of life yet full of promise, populated by indigenous communities yet ripe for conquest, pristine yet marked by a long human history—it has moved to the foreground of contemporary life as the most dramatic stage for the reality of climate change. This book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to ask key questions about the North and how we’ve conceived it—and how conceiving of it in those terms has caused us to fail the region’s human and nonhuman life. Engaging questions of space, place, indigeneity, identity, nature, the environment, justice, narrative, history, and more, it offers a crucial starting point for an essential rethinking of both the idea and the reality of the North.
Author | : Nancy Lord |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2011-01-10 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1582438684 |
In Shishmaref, Alaska, new seawalls are constructed while residents navigate the many practical and bureaucratic obstacles to moving their entire island village to higher ground. Farther south, inland hunters and fishermen set out to grow more of their own food—and to support the reintroduction of wood bison, an ancient species well suited to expected habitat changes. First Nations people in Canada team with conservationists to protect land for both local use and environmental resilience. In Early Warming, Alaskan Writer Laureate, Nancy Lord, takes a cutting–edge look at how communities in the North—where global warming is amplified and climate–change effects are most immediate—are responding with desperation and creativity. This beautifully written and measured narrative takes us deep into regions where the indigenous people who face life–threatening change also demonstrate impressive conservation ethics and adaptive capacities. Underpinned by a long acquaintance with the North and backed with scientific and political sophistication, Lord's vivid account brings the challenges ahead for us all into ice–water clarity.
Author | : Jessica Bissett Perea |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0190869135 |
Sound Relations delves into histories of Inuit musical life in Alaska to trace the ways in which sound is integral to self-determination and sovereignty. Offering radical and relational ways of listening to Inuit performances across genres--from hip hop to Christian hymnody and traditional drumsongs to funk and R&B --author Jessica Bissett Perea shows how Indigenous ways of musicking amplify possibilities for more just and equitable futures.
Author | : Chad Kister |
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Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Top scientists describe the alarming impacts of glaciers receding half a mile per year, pack ice hundreds of miles farther from the Arctic coast, permafrost melting and villages crumbling into the rising seas. [Publisher web site].