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E-book Researching with Proximity : Relational methodologies for the Anthropocene

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We are being told: ‘It is perhaps not wise to go to trekking during ‘räkkä’ time, the mass occurrence of insects—mosquitoes, blackflies, and midges— during the northern summer.’ As experienced trekkers, we already know this, but we have no option: this is the only weekend possible for us to go for a hike, and we are eager. I only wish for a miracle, to avoid having very many mosquitoes as our travel companions. We decide to head to the open fells around Kilpisjärvi, the arm of Finland, between Norway and Sweden. While we estimate that there would be less ‘räkkä,’ local reindeer herders, experts on this matter, tell us that with this weather we will not escape the mosquitoes. We are having heat, heat, heat! This is an excerpt from a fieldwork diary of researchers exploring multi-species encounters in the north and seeking to engage with mosquitoes as fellow travellers. The trekkers felt the burning sun and the swarm of thirsty insects on their skins, embodying the effects of the unpre-dictably changing climate. While they could choose to be exposed to these elements, many of the local inhabitants, like the reindeer, birches, and lichens, cannot. The rapidly warming climate and overuse of resources are threatening the wellbeing and survival of human and non-human commu-nities in unforeseen ways. The milder temperatures invite an increasing number of new insects and other species to gather in the Arctic, among them humans in a hurry to experience the melting landscapes before it is too late (Gren and Huijbens 2014; Lemelin et al. 2012). The more sensitive species are pushed to the margins until they simply vanish Labelling this ongoing era of ecological crisis the ‘Anthropocene’ offers a frame for addressing how ‘we,’ ‘humankind,’ possess the power to either destroy or protect life on this planet (see, e.g., Pálsson and Swanson 2016). While the notion helps us to recognise how life as we know it is under great threat, these kinds of meta-categories, such as the Anthro-pocene, climate change, or, indeed, the Arctic, overlook alternative ways of understanding and attending to more-than-human relations and their situated character. In this situation, feminist, postcolonial and Indigenous environmental scholars are calling for more nuanced alternatives to the Anthropocenic imaginary that would attend to the multiplicity, difference, and uneven distribution of more-than-human responsibilities, vulnerabil-ities, and sufferings in the world (Neimanis et al. 2015;Tsing 2015; Haraway 2016; Pálsson and Swanson 2016; Todd 2016; Hylland Eriksen et al. 2018).

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551.468 AUT r

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Switzerland : Springer Nature., 2024

Deskripsi Fisik

229 hlm

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English

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9783031395000

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551.468

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online resource

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Arctic Ocean, North Polar Sea

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