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This book brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists and scholars to explore how environmental changes in the Arctic are being experienced, understood, and represented. As climate change unfolds across vast geographies and long timescales, its impacts-on identity, wellbeing, cultural resources, and ways of life-are intimate, abrupt, and deeply felt.
Across the thirteen chapters, authors from diverse regions, disciplines, and artistic practices document and respond to these shifts, offering nuanced insights into the lived realities of a warming North. From ephemeral transformations in the land to the erosion of shared memory and subsistence traditions, these creative and scholarly responses serve as powerful forms of witnessing and response. Rather than relying solely on metrics or models, this volume emphasizes sensory, emotional, and cultural knowledge, foregrounding how individuals and communities are making sense of, and responding to, ecological disruption. It offers a vital perspective on the disproportionate and uneven impacts of climate change, and the urgent need to attend to its effects at both personal and planetary scales.
This is an essential resource for scholars, students, and practitioners in environmental history, Indigenous studies, climate policy, art and visual culture, and global development, and for anyone seeking new ways to engage with environmental change through art, experience, and collaboration.
Table des matières
Contents
List of Contributors vii
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 1
ANTONIA SOHNS
PART I
Art as Witness 11
1 Observation of Change as a New Genre Arctic Art 13
MARIA HUHMARNIEMI AND ANJA KATH LANDE
2 Community Photography as a Tool for Witnessing
Environmental Change and Contamination in Labrador 27
JESSICA PENNEY AND ELDRED ALLEN
3 Sensing, Storytelling, and the Sacred: Two Creative
Multimedia Projects Exploring Arctic Change 38
CHRIS DUNN
4 Sanaaq Silamiñ (Something Whittled from Weather) ¿ 50
ERIN GGAADIMITS IVALU GINGRICH
PART II
Art as Response 57
5 Exploring Perceptions of Northern Landscapes through
Nature Photography 59
ESA PEKKA ISOMURSU AND PETRI HOPPU
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6 Nomadic Antlers: New Genre Arctic Art Education
and Activism 76
MIRJA HILTUNEN AND KORINNA KORSSTRÖM-MAGGA
7 Knowing with the Sea Trout: Place-Specific Artwork
for Addressing Environmental Conflict 94
TIMO JOKELA
8 Artistic Responses to Climate Change in Sakha (Yakutia) 109
VERA SOLOVYEVA
9 The Glutton 122
BRENDAN GRIEBEL AND JUDE GRIEBEL
PART III
Artistic Practices That May Deepen Connection or Reconnect
People or Communities with the Environment and Cultural
Heritage 137
10 To Heal the Woods of the Earth (and the Mind) through
Play and Art 139
ANTTI STÖCKELL AND NINA LUOSTARINEN
11 Blueprints and the Topography of Loss 153
HANNAH PERRINE MODE
12 Arctic Encounters: Material Culture, Indigenous
Worldviews, and AI Projections 166
ELISA PALOMINO AND JONATHAN KATZ
13 At the River - Stepping in the Flow 185
TIMO JOKELA
Conclusion 200
ANTONIA SOHNS
Index 203
A propos de l'auteur
Antonia Sohns earned her PhD in Geography from McGill University (2020). Her research and work focus on water security and climate change adaptation. She holds an MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management from the University of Oxford (2011) and a BSc in Earth Systems, Oceans track from Stanford University (2010). She has conducted environmental and social science research from the Arctic to the tropics, including for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and for international NGOs.
