Our Home is Drowning
IÑupiat Storytelling and Climate Change in Point Hope, Alaskalaska
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4487658 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chie Sakakibara (0000-0001-7904-592X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 456-475 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2008.tb00312.x |
| OpenAlex | W2004092842 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 24 |
Contemporary storytelling among the IÑupiat of Point Hope, Alaska, is a means of coping with the unpredictable future that climate change poses. Arctic climate change impacts IÑupiat lifeways on a cultural level by threatening their homeland, their sense of place, and their respect for the bowhead whale that is the basis of their cultural identity. What I found during my fieldwork was that traditional storytelling processed environmental changes as a way of maintaining a connection to a disappearing place. In this article I describe how environmental change is culturally manifest through tales of the supernatural, particularly spirit beings or ghosts. The types of IÑupiat stories and modes of telling them reveal people's uncertainty about the future. Examining how people perceive the loss of their homeland, I argue that IÑupiat storytelling both reveals and is a response to a changing physical and spiritual landscape
Aesthetics · Arctic · Art · Climate change · Environmental ethics · Homeland · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Storytelling · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Climate change and permafrost · Ecology · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law
General Introduction
“The Whale Brings Us Together”: Humanistic Explorations of Climate Change and Iñupiaq Community Resilience in Arctic Alaska
"Creating a climate changed future with the sea level rise interactive-fiction game "Lagos2199
“Now we understand what community really means”
Stories vs. facts
Linking Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge of Climate Change
Climate Change and Cultural Survival in the Arctic
Crisis climática y movilidad humana
The Unappreciated Significance and Source of Meaning in Wild Landscapes
Digital Game Narratives as Living Culture
Protecting Earth Rights and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Comparative Ethnographies of Crooked Beasts
Traditional Lifeways and Storytelling
Elevating the Uses of Storytelling Methods Within Indigenous Health Research
Telling the story of climate change
Detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change impacts
Emotional pathways to climate change responses
Artful climate change communication
Community Digital Storytelling for Locally Led Adaptation
Historical geography III
Inuit vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada
No whale, no music’
Kiavallakkikput Agviq (Into the Whaling Cycle)
Beyond Adapting to Climate Change
One thousand ways to experience loss
Geographies of climate change opinion
Minding the Gaps
People of the Whales
Traditional Iñupiat Ice Cellars (SIĠḷUAQ) in Barrow, Alaska
Learning to See Climate Change
Delta voices of climate crisis
Domicide
Landscapes of the Mind
Humanistic geography
Wisdom sits in places
Textures Of Place
Observations on Shorefast Ice Dynamics in Arctic Alaska and the Responses of the Iñupiat Hunting Community
Topophilia
The Social Culture of the Nunivak Eskimo
Home'-Making
Geography, Phenomenology, And The Study Of Human Nature
Dwelling, Place and Environment
Grasping the Dynamism of Lifeworld
The Perception of the Environment
The Human Experience of Space and Place
Ancient Men of the Arctic
The Eskimo about Bering Strait
The Perception of the Environment
The Things That Were Said of Them
The Eskimo Storyteller
Point Hope
The Nonempirical Environment of the Arctic Alaskan Eskimos
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,82 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |