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).

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Foreword

Peter Schweitzer



Acknowledgments



Introduction: On Constellations and Connected Up Thinking in the Face of the Future

Barbara Bodenhorn and Olga Ulturgasheva



Chapter 1. Activating Cosmo-Geo-Analytics: Anthropocene, Arctics and Cryocide

Olga Ulturgasheva and Barbara Bodenhorn



Chapter 2. ‘Tears of the Earth’: Human-Permafrost Entanglements and Science-Indigenous Knowledge Encounters in Northeast Siberia

Olga Ulturgasheva

This 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 Do

Rachel Nutaaq Ayałhuq Naŋinaaq Edwardson



Chapter 4. Weathering the Storm: An Indigenous Knowledge Framework of Yup’ik Youth Well-being and Resilience in Alaska

Stacy Rasmus



Chapter 5. Journalism in Canada’s Northern Territories: Digital Media, Civic Spaces, Indigenous Publics

Candis Callison



Chapter 6. People of the Cryosphere: a Cross-Regional, Cross-Disciplinary approach to Icescapes in a Changing Climate

Hildegard Diemberger and Astrid Hovden



Chapter 7. Risky Decisions, Precarious Moralities: The Case of Fall Whaling in Barrow, Alaska

Barbara Bodenhorn



Afterword

Michael Bravo



Index