Stories of Change and Sustainability in the Arctic Regions
The Interdependence of Local and Global
- 242 pages
- English
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Stories of Change and Sustainability in the Arctic Regions
The Interdependence of Local and Global
About this book
This book presents stories of sustainability from communities in circumpolar regions as they grapple with environmental, economic and societal changes and challenges.
Polar regions are changing rapidly. These changes will dramatically effect ecosystems, economy, people, communities and their interdependencies. Given this, the stories being told about lives and livelihood development are changing also. This book is the first of its kind to curate stories about opportunity and responsibility, tensions and contradictions, un/ethical action, resilience, adaptability and sustainability, all within the shifting geopolitics of the north. The book looks at change and sustainability through multidisciplinary and empirically based work, drawing on case studies from Norway, Sweden, Alaska, Canada, Finland and Northwest Russia, with a notable focus on indigenous peoples. Chapters touch on topics as wide ranging as reindeer herding, mental health, climate change, land-use conflicts and sustainable business. The volume asks whose voices are being heard, who benefits, how particular changes affect people's sense of community and longstanding and cherished values plus livelihood practices and what are the environmental, economic and social impacts of contemporary and future oriented changes with regard to issues of sustainability?
This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainability studies, sustainable development, environmental sociology, indigenous studies and environmental anthropology.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Introduction: Being in-between stories
- 1 Concerned Arctic peoples: Characteristics of conversations-that-matter
- 2 Disappearing flexibility: The story of Gielas reindeer herding district
- 3 Stories transmitted through art for the revitalization and decolonization of the Arctic
- 4 Mental health research in an Arctic Indigenous context: The presence of silent dominant narratives
- 5 Stories of empowerment, resilience and healing: A participatory research project with two Indigenous communities in Québec
- 6 Learning through lived experiences: A structural narrative analysis of one person's journey of recovery and implications for peer support services
- 7 The decline and changes in the tundra today: The nature of state systems and services as a critical factor in the condition of minority indigenous peoples in Russia
- 8 Overcoming isolation in the Arctic during COVID-19 times through new ways of co-writing research
- 9 Green colonialism: The story of wind power in Sápmi
- 10 Transforming Arctic municipalities: The winding road to low-emission communities
- 11 The quest for fresh vegetables: Stories about the future of Arctic farming
- 12 Greening discourses of the Nordic Arctic region: The region as vulnerable, late bloomer or the arena of possibilities?
- Reflections: What can we create together?
- Index