Notes from the Polar Night
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17826553 |
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| Authors | C Ingraham (0000-0001-9093-340X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 35-43 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2333-9489 • E-ISSN: 2333-9497 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.4.35 |
| OpenAlex | W3114835132 |
| Language | EN |
Drawing from in situ fieldwork in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the northernmost settlement on Earth, these notes bring out the affective, ambient, and atmospheric power of extended darkness during the polar night, when the sun does not appear above the horizon for several months at a time. Each entry is composed of 113 words to reflect the number of days without light in Longyearbyen during the winter of my visit. Through a mixture of ethnographic observations, researched academic scholarship, and some endeavors of poetic worldmaking, these notes attempt to evoke the ineffable force of global warming by performing the sort of acutely observed and felt attentiveness to planetary being that is needed for our time
Aesthetics · Art · Geography · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Scholarship · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · History · Night-time city culture · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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