Inuit knowledge of the sea ice environment has been praised by generations of early explorers, arctic travellers, natural scientists, anthropologists, and popular writers. Surprisingly little has ...been done to systematically document and analyze the richness of the Inuit sea ice nomenclatures until quite recently. This article reviews the history of Inuit (Eskimo) sea ice terminology collection, including efforts undertaken in 2005-2009 for the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008. Altogether, a database of 35 indigenous ice nomenclatures from the Bering Sea to East Greenland has been created, displaying the richness of over 1,500 terms for sea ice in all Inuit/Eskimo languages and most regional dialects, as well as in other indigenous northern languages (Chukchi, Dena'ina Athabascan, and Sami). Processing these vocabularies, analyzing the origins and historical geography of the Inuit sea ice nomenclatures, and returning the data to participating communities as educational, heritage, and language materials may become one of the lasting contributions of the IPY 2007-2008 program.Original Abstract: Combien de mots esquimaux pour designer la glace ? La collecte de donnees terminologiques relatives a la glace de mer utilisees par les Inuits au cours de l'Annee polaire internationale 2007-2008 Des generations de premiers explorateurs, de voyageurs des regions nordiques, de chercheurs en science naturelle, de specialistes en anthropologie et d'ecrivains populaires ont toutes admire les connaissances des Inuits au sujet de la glace de mer. Il est surprenant de constater le faible interet portea l'etude et l'analyse systematiques de la riche nomenclature de la glace de mer utilisee par les Inuits. Cet article dresse un portrait historique de la collecte de donnees terminologiques aupres des Inuits (Esquimaux) sur la glace de mer, incluant les travaux qui se sont deroules entre 2005 et 2009 dans le cadre de l'Annee polaire internationale (API) 2007-2008. Une base terminologique a ainsi ete constituee qui regroupe un ensemble de 35 nomenclatures indigenes de la glace de mer, de la Mer de Bering jusqu'a l'est du Groenland. Elle permet de decouvrir la richesse de plus de 1500 mots pour designer la glace de mer dans toutes les langues eskimo-aleoutes et la plupart des dialectes regionaux, ainsi que dans les autres langues nordiques parlees par des groupes autochtones (les langues Chukchi, Dena'ina Athabascan, et Sami). Le traitement de ce vocabulaire, l'analyse des sources et de la geographie historique de la nomenclature de la glace de mer utilisee par les Inuits, ainsi que la restitution des donnees aux collectivites participantes sous forme de materiels pedagogiques, patrimoniaux et linguistiques compteront parmi les contributions les plus marquantes du programme API 2007-2008.
This response to ‘The Work of Repair: Land, Relation, and Pedagogy’ engages with the authors’ cases of Black Mesa, Port Arthur, Dzongu, and the University to further advance how the working of repair ...among geographers must be undertaken with greater assertiveness if the discipline of geography will be able to produce a reparative effect in its scholarship. Ultimately, the response asks what is repair, a question that this paper encourages geographers to boldly ask and answer.
The Fearless Cities summit, coordinated by Barcelona en Comú in June 2017, marked the first global gathering of the nascent “new municipalist” movement. Responding to the “imperative that geographers ...engage critically and creatively with the way localism is being articulated”, this paper argues that the new municipalist initiatives are developing urban political strategies that successfully avoid the Local Trap. Rather than essentialising cities as inherently progressive or democratic, the municipal is instead becoming framed as a “strategic front” for developing a transformative politics of scale. Given this critical awareness, this nascent movement demonstrates how local loyalties can be mobilised as part of a progressive scalar strategy without falling into the trap of a “particular localism”. What remains to be seen is whether these initiatives are able to develop a variegated scalar strategy of transformation that retains the democratic essence that underpins them.
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El encuentro Ciudades sin Miedo, organizado por Barcelona en Comú en junio de 2017, marcó la primera reunión mundial del naciente movimiento del “nuevo municipalismo”. Respondiendo al “imperativo de que los geógrafos estudien crítica y creativamente la manera en que se articula el localismo” (Featherstone et al. : 181), este artículo sostiene que las nuevas iniciativas municipalistas están desarrollando estrategias políticas urbanas que evitan con éxito la trampa local. En lugar de “esencializar” ciudades como inherentemente progresista o democrático, lo municipal se está enmarcando como un “frente estratégico” para desarrollar una política de escala que sea transformadora. Teniendo en cuenta esta conciencia crítica, este movimiento naciente demuestra cómo se pueden movilizar las lealtades locales como parte de una estrategia multiescala progresiva sin caer en la trampa de un “localismo particular”. Lo que queda por ver es si estas iniciativas son capaces de desarrollar una estrategia multiescala de transformación que retenga la esencia democrática que las sustenta.
In academic and policy discourse, the concept of urban resilience is proliferating. Social theorists, especially human geographers, have rightfully criticized that the underlying politics of ...resilience have been ignored and stress the importance of asking "resilience of what, to what, and for whom?" This paper calls for careful consideration of not just resilience for whom and what, but also where, when, and why. A three-phase process is introduced to enable these "five Ws" to be negotiated collectively and to engender critical reflection on the politics of urban resilience as plans, initiatives, and projects are conceived, discussed, and implemented. Deployed through the hypothetical case of green infrastructure in Los Angeles, the paper concludes by illustrating how resilience planning trade-offs and decisions affect outcomes over space and time, often with significant implications for equity.
Editorial: Geography in the world McFarlane, Colin
Transactions - Institute of British Geographers (1965),
March 2022, 2022-03-00, 20220301, Letnik:
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This editorial introduces a new initiative at Transactions, “Geography in the World,” which engages with some of the challenges and opportunities of the discipline today. It does so by staging a set ...of reflections from Geographers working in different contexts across the world. The editorial introduces the first collection gathered in this issue, and discusses some of the key themes posed by the contributions and the wider initiative. Transactions invites further contributions – as short commentaries or full papers – to “Geography in the World” from authors based in different national contexts.
This editorial launches the “Geography in the World” initiative and introduces the first collection of contributions.
This paper outlines scholarship on resistance within geography. Its contention is that conceptualisations of resistance are characterised by a predetermination of form that particular actions or ...actors must assume to constitute resistance. Asking what we risk ignoring if we only focus on predetermined, recognisable resistant forms, the paper revisits some of the fundamental assumptions (of intention, linearity and opposition) that underpin accounts of resistance. It calls for geographers to engage with resistance in emergence. The paper concludes by detailing what this might look like in practice, including intersections with work on potentiality, incoherent subjects, agentic materiality and speculative futures.
Desirable Futures: Write Me a Letter Gergan, Mabel; Gupta, Pallavi; Lookabaugh, Lara ...
ACME an international e-journal for critical geographies,
01/2024, Letnik:
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In this special issue, we propose the letter as a form with geographic potential. Building on prior work on letters in geography, Black feminism, and Indigenous studies, we draw on a collection of ...sixteen letters in the section to build a case for letters as time travel, anticolonial epistemology, feminist geographic method, and worldmaking praxis. We bring together letter writers who speak to their ancestors known and unknown, to future generations, to ideas, to activists, to places, and to strangers-and weave them into a messy and generative conversation on the kinds of spaces that letters make between and among us. Our intention is to build on recent work in geography to experiment with what the letter makes possible for us as geographers.
This is the first in a series of three reviews that scrutinise the conventions of doing and describing qualitative research that currently predominate in human geography. Since we find that ...interviews are the most widely used method in this field, we begin with an examination of how they feature in the work of today’s human geographers. How many people do geographers speak with and what do they say about their interviewing procedures? What do they imagine their interviews to be in terms of the social occasion? And how do they present the empirical material that is thereby generated?
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