Risky Futures

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).

“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

• List of IllustrationsForewordPeter SchweitzerAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Constellations and Connected Up Thinking in the Face of the FutureBarbara Bodenhorn and Olga UlturgashevaChapter 1. Activating Cosmo-Geo-Analytics: Anthropocene, Arctics and CryocideOlga Ulturgasheva and Barbara BodenhornChapter 2. ‘Tears of the Earth’: Human-Permafrost Entanglements and Science-Indigenous Knowledge Encounters in Northeast SiberiaOlga UlturgashevaThis 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 DoRachel Nutaaq Ayałhuq Naŋinaaq EdwardsonChapter 4. Weathering the Storm: An Indigenous Knowledge Framework of Yup’ik Youth Well-being and Resilience in AlaskaStacy RasmusChapter 5. Journalism in Canada’s Northern Territories: Digital Media, Civic Spaces, Indigenous PublicsCandis CallisonChapter 6. People of the Cryosphere: a Cross-Regional, Cross-Disciplinary approach to Icescapes in a Changing ClimateHildegard Diemberger and Astrid HovdenChapter 7. Risky Decisions, Precarious Moralities: The Case of Fall Whaling in Barrow, AlaskaBarbara BodenhornAfterwordMichael BravoIndex