Our Backyard
What are the risks posed by climate change, the oil industry, and mining projects, to subsistence and other historical traditions in remote Alaska? How can those risks be reduced?
Crossing Borders: Review of Floating Coast by Bathsheba Demuth
Floating Coast reads like a wave, moving from ocean to shore on both sides of the Bering Strait, from ocean to ice to land, then up the rivers, and then underground, then spilling back out to the sea. Floating Coast is a . . .
Climate Change and Climate Justice: Review of Fierce Climate Sacred Ground by Elizabeth Marino
Marino isn’t from rural Alaska, nor does she live there. But she’s spent enough of the right kind of time in the community of Shishmaref, to care deeply, and respectfully, and she brings the best of her academic skills to advocate for climate justice. With this Kigiqtaamiut ethnography, she bridges cultural gaps between realities of rural Alaska on the edge of climate change, and the churning mill of urban bureaucratic . . .