With essays by both academics and Arctic peoples, integrating multiple perspectives and multiple disciplines, the book covers social, legal, political, geographical, scientific and creative questions related to Arcticness, to address the challenges faced by the Arctic as a region and specifically by local communities. As well as academic essays, the contributions to the book include personal reflections, a graphic essay, and poetry, to ensure wide and varied coverage of the Arctic experience – what the contributions all have in common is the fundamental human perspective.
Topics covered in the essays include indigenous identity and livelihoods such as reindeer herding, and adapting to modern identities; a graphic essay on the experience of Arctic indigenous peoples in residential schools; the effects of climate change; energy in the Arctic; and extractive industries and their impacts on local communities.
The book includes reflections on the future of Arcticness, engaging with communities to ensure meaningful representation and as a counterpoint to the primacy of environmental, national and global issues.
Praise for Arcticness
‘As a collection, this volume offers an eclectic mix of chapters spanning artistic renditions, personal narratives, and socio-political analyses, as well as scientists’ takes on what it means to “know” Northern environments.’
ANTIPODE
'The wide range of contributions makes this latest book edited by Ilan Kelman an enjoyable and unexpected work, easily accessible due to its open-access availability.'
The Polar Journal
'a thought-provoking, well-curated exploration of a rapidly changing, dynamic region'
Choice
‘The diversity of Arcticness: Power and Voice from the North is highly impressive….It is rare to find a collection that incorporates such a wide range of perspectives, and it makes for a fascinating and compelling read…a clear and original contribution to the field of Arctic studies’
Island Studies Journal
'Did this book meet its objectives? Absolutely. Just as living in the Arctic forces you to confront your own limitations and stretch yourself beyond what you know., this book guides you out of your comfort zone to assess the physical, spiritual, cultural and, environmental realities that make up this vast region. I am reasonably convinced that all examinations of the Arctic should follow this template. Only good things happen when the natural scientist considers the Indigenous understandings of place, the artist considers the unique views offered by science and technology, and the anthropologist becomes educated by both. This is the true spirit and success of Arcticness.... I hereby dub Arcticness a work of "awesomeness" and highly recommend it to anyone -- professional researcher or not -- who is seeking a well-rounded and diverse view of the state of being Arctic'
ARCTIC
Ilan Kelman (http://www.ilankelman.org and @IlanKelman) is Reader in Risk, Resilience and Global Health at UCL and a researcher at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health research.
1. Editorial Introduction: Shall I compare thee to an
Arctic day (or night)?
Ilan Kelman
Part 1 ARCTICNESS EMERGING
2. Maintaining my Arcticness
Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon
3. Conversations in the Dark
Larissa Diakiw (publishing as Frankie No One)
Poem: Tracking the Arctic
Funsho Martin Parrott
4. Radar observations of Arctic ice
Rachel L. Tilling, Tun Jan Young, Poul Christoffersen,
Lai Bun Lok, Paul V. Brennan and Keith W. Nicholls
5. Arcticness: In the making of the beholder
Patrizia Isabelle Duda
Part 2 ARCTICNESS LIVING
6. Arcticness insights
Anne Merrild Hansen
7. Reindeer herding in a changing world – a comparative
analysis
Marius Warg Næss
Poem: Aurora
Ilan Kelman
8. Energy justice: A new framework for examining Arcticness
in the context of energy infrastructure development
Darren McCauley, Raphael Heffron, Ryan Holmes and
Maria Pavlenko
9. Understanding Arcticness: Comparing resource
frontier narratives in the Arctic and East Africa
James Van Alstine and William Davies
10. Scopes and limits of ‘Arcticness’: Arctic livelihoods,
marine mammals and the law
Nikolas Sellheim
Part 3 ARCTICNESS FUTURES
11. Continental divide: Shifting Canadian and
Russian Arcticness
Nadia French, Mieke Coppes, Greg Sharp and Dwayne Menezes
12. Imagining the future: Local perceptions of Arctic
extractive projects that didn’t happen
Emma Wilson, Anne Merrild Hansen and Elana Wilson Rowe
13. Editorial Conclusion: Arcticness by any other name
Ilan Kelman
Afterword: Within Arcticness, outside the Arctic
Vladimir Vasiliev
ARCTIC
‘The diversity of Arcticness: Power and Voice from the North is highly impressive….It is rare to find a collection that incorporates such a wide range of perspectives, and it makes for a fascinating and compelling read…a clear and original contribution to the field of Arctic studies’
Island Studies Journal
'a thought-provoking, well-curated exploration of a rapidly changing, dynamic region'
Choice
'The wide range of contributions makes this latest book edited by Ilan Kelman an enjoyable and unexpected work, easily accessible due to its open-access availability.'
The Polar Journal
‘As a collection, this volume offers an eclectic mix of chapters spanning artistic renditions, personal narratives, and socio-political analyses, as well as scientists’ takes on what it means to “know” Northern environments.’
ANTIPODE
‘reviewing such an eclectic mix of contributions is not easy or straightforward, and each individual reader will need to decide whether a contribution “has real and useful meaning.”'
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Format: Open Access PDF
204 Pages
ISBN: 9781787350137
Publication: August 14, 2017
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