Exceeding Beringia
Upending universal human events and wayward transits in Arctic spaces
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4475844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Judith R Smith (0000-0001-7659-806X, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 158-175 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263775820950745 |
| OpenAlex | W3082191786 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
| References cited | 54 |
In this article I examine the enlistment of Arctic ice to tell grand, universal stories about humanity's origins and endings. Specifically, I analyze 18th century Natural History musings that linked Arctic climate to race and human difference. I demonstrate that these musings are constitutive to an invention of pathologized migrancy across Arctic spaces that emerge as a consequence of the inability of ice to foster agricultural settlement. I call this phenomenon temperate-normativity, in which Arctic spaces of ice are produced as inferior, not meaningful on their own but read as where transit to temperate locales occurs and those who linger are consequentially rendered as aberrant. To upend temperate-normative ideals of landscape and livelihood, I analyze a poem titled "Exceeding Beringia" by Joan Naviyuk Kane (Inupiaq) wherein Inupiaq relations to more-than-human kin articulate transit and migration as a mutual, obligatory responsibility
Archaeology · Arctic · Beringia · Biology · Geography · Human settlement · Humanity · Political science · Settlement (finance · Temperate climate · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Ecology
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Walrus Skins and Weet-o-Weet
Technologies of Quiescence
Life Writing at the Terminus
Travelling into the Dark
Cultural geography of heat
Listening to Silent Geographies of Indigenous Self-Determination
Caring for heat stress and repairing an unequal thermal capitalist world
Mindfulness, gratitude and sharing are central to berry harvesting practice, sustainability and adaptation in rural Alaska
Black as Drought
‘Kalli in the ship’
On and beyond traumatic fallout
On Cooling and Comfort
Imperialism, colonialism, and climate change science
Geography and ethics II
Indigenous peoples’ geographies I
When the whirlwind is moving over the sand’
Malcolm Ferdinand (trans. Anthony Paul Smith), Decolonial Ecology
Frederick George Jackson, Indigenous knowledge, and the “heroic age” of polar exploration
The ‘deer‐men’ and the ‘bowhead‐men’
Geohumanities I
Edward Curtis and the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899
Mobilize
Hydrosocial geographies
Chasing Rotten Ice
Imagining Himalayan Glacial Futures
Seeing Green
Arctic agrarian futures? A political ecology of climate change in the Northwest Territories, Canada
Praise the Gardeners, Dun the Hunters
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Storytelling Earth and Body
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Imperial Eyes
Siku: Knowing Our Ice
Beyond the Life/Not-Life Binary
The Colonization of Beringia and the Peopling of the New World
Geology of mankind
A iy aq Herbert Anungazuk and Ernest S. Burch, Jr
Indigenous Climate Change Studies
The Tropics of Empire
The Road to Botany Bay
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
The Transit of Empire
Against the Grain
Migration or Forced Displacement
Twice Removed
Climate Apartheid
Contesting the Arctic
Race, space and moral climatology
Nature's State
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
Colonial Botany. Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World
Articulating the Arctic
Genetics, Race, and Relatedness
Geographical Determinism in Fin-de-siècle Marxism
Malthus’s specter and the anthropocene
National Geographic
Rural Alaska
Art in the Anthropocene
On the dangers of an Anthropocene epoch
Ice Cores and the Temporalities of the Global Environment
Geography, Empire, and Environmental Determinism
The Anthropocene as colonial discourse
Rendering settler sovereign landscapes
Introduction
Alaska Native Politics since the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
Intense Dreaming
Skull Wars
Human Dispersal from Siberia to Beringia
The Climate of History
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |