Nancy Wachowich
Biographic Data
| ID | 152954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Wachowich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Wachowich |
| SIGNATURE | WACHOWICH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1066-1980 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
With or without the camera running
This article argues for the critical evaluation of indigenous media, art, and aesthetic practices within local trajectories of meaning-making. Drawing on ethnographic research in Arctic Canada with a notable Inuit video and film production company, Igloolik Isuma Productions, I emphasize the value of focusing on locally defined processes of filmic production and on relational bounties accrued outside the camera's field of vision. Indigenous media…
Intimate Clips
This article reflects upon the interplay of digital, material, and social relations in the context of a small-scale digital archiving project currently being undertaken by a group of women ethnographers, videographers, and sealskin seamstresses in the Canadian Eastern High Arctic Inuit settlement of Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet). I illustrate the documentation work of our Mittimatalik Arnait Miqsuqtuit Collective, situating it in the new media landsc…
Uploading selves
This article explores the contemporary use of open-access video-sharing sites by Inuit youth and young adults. Based on 12 months of cyber-fieldwork and focused specifically on YouTube, it explores how Inuit young people across the Canadian Arctic are using online spaces to post short excerpts from their lives and connect with others. The paper situates these digital autobiographies in the recent trajectory of Inuit storytelling, showing that Int…
Technologies créatives
Technologies créatives: expérimentation et pratiques sociales dans les sociétés arctiques / Creative technologies: Experimentation and social practice in Arctic societies. Un article de la revue Études/Inuit/Studies (Technologies créatives) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Digitalisation of crafts. Comparative approaches to Arctic fur
Efforts to digitally engage with indigenous source communities andcraftspeople are many and diverse. This paper has as its starting point a comparisonbetween two such digital engagements, both celebrations of Arctic animal furclothing, yet each at seemingly opposite ends of a continuum of possible digitalinterfaces. Skinddragter Online and Mittimatalik Arnait Miqsuqtuit Collectivewere both launched the same year, 2015, in Copenhagen and Mittimata…
Uploading selves
This article explores the contemporary use of open-access video-sharing sites by Inuit youth and young adults. Based on 12 months of cyber-fieldwork and focused specifically on YouTube, it explores how Inuit young people across the Canadian Arctic are using online spaces to post short excerpts from their lives and connect with others. The paper situates these digital autobiographies in the recent trajectory of Inuit storytelling, showing that Int…
Intimate Clips
This article reflects upon the interplay of digital, material, and social relations in the context of a small-scale digital archiving project currently being undertaken by a group of women ethnographers, videographers, and sealskin seamstresses in the Canadian Eastern High Arctic Inuit settlement of Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet). I illustrate the documentation work of our Mittimatalik Arnait Miqsuqtuit Collective, situating it in the new media landsc…
Technologies créatives
Technologies créatives: expérimentation et pratiques sociales dans les sociétés arctiques / Creative technologies: Experimentation and social practice in Arctic societies. Un article de la revue Études/Inuit/Studies (Technologies créatives) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Digitalisation of crafts. Comparative approaches to Arctic fur
Efforts to digitally engage with indigenous source communities andcraftspeople are many and diverse. This paper has as its starting point a comparisonbetween two such digital engagements, both celebrations of Arctic animal furclothing, yet each at seemingly opposite ends of a continuum of possible digitalinterfaces. Skinddragter Online and Mittimatalik Arnait Miqsuqtuit Collectivewere both launched the same year, 2015, in Copenhagen and Mittimata…
Technologies créatives
Technologies créatives: expérimentation et pratiques sociales dans les sociétés arctiques / Creative technologies: Experimentation and social practice in Arctic societies. Un article de la revue Études/Inuit/Studies (Technologies créatives) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Uploading selves
This article explores the contemporary use of open-access video-sharing sites by Inuit youth and young adults. Based on 12 months of cyber-fieldwork and focused specifically on YouTube, it explores how Inuit young people across the Canadian Arctic are using online spaces to post short excerpts from their lives and connect with others. The paper situates these digital autobiographies in the recent trajectory of Inuit storytelling, showing that Int…
Intimate Clips
This article reflects upon the interplay of digital, material, and social relations in the context of a small-scale digital archiving project currently being undertaken by a group of women ethnographers, videographers, and sealskin seamstresses in the Canadian Eastern High Arctic Inuit settlement of Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet). I illustrate the documentation work of our Mittimatalik Arnait Miqsuqtuit Collective, situating it in the new media landsc…
With or without the camera running
This article argues for the critical evaluation of indigenous media, art, and aesthetic practices within local trajectories of meaning-making. Drawing on ethnographic research in Arctic Canada with a notable Inuit video and film production company, Igloolik Isuma Productions, I emphasize the value of focusing on locally defined processes of filmic production and on relational bounties accrued outside the camera's field of vision. Indigenous media…
Sociology (5 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)