Book ID: CBB959747632

Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground: An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref Alaska (2015)

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Elizabeth K. Marino (Author)


University of Alaska Press


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 122 pages
Language: English

With three roads and a population of just over 500 people, Shishmaref, Alaska seems like an unlikely center of the climate change debate. But the island, home to Iñupiaq Eskimos who still live off subsistence harvesting, is falling into the sea, and climate change is, at least in part, to blame. While countries sputter and stall over taking environmental action, Shishmaref is out of time. Publications from the New York Times to Esquire have covered this disappearing village, yet few have taken the time to truly show the community and the two millennia of traditions at risk. In Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground, Elizabeth Marino brings Shishmaref into sharp focus as a place where people in a close-knit, determined community are confronting the realities of our changing planet every day. She shows how physical dangers challenge lives, while the stress and uncertainty challenge culture and identity. Marino also draws on Shishmaref’s experiences to show how disasters and the outcomes of climate change often fall heaviest on those already burdened with other social risks and often to communities who have contributed least to the problem. Stirring and sobering, "Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground" proves that the consequences of unchecked climate change are anything but theoretical. (Amazon)

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Authors & Contributors
Lanzarotta, Tess
Callison, Candis
Fur, Gunlög
Fu, Lee-Lueng
Emanuel, Ryan E.
Tollefson, Jonathan
Concepts
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Ethnography
Climate change
Anthropology
Colonialism
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
18th century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Alaska (U.S.)
Arctic regions
United States
Australia
Guatemala
Americas
Institutions
University of California
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