Cultures and Concepts of Ice: Listening for Other Narratives in the Anthropocene

Morehouse, Harlan; Cigliano, Marisa

doi:10.1080/24694452.2020.1792266

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“…If the Arctic was largely ignored and overlooked in previous eras of the Western master narrative, in dominant discourse now, the Arctic in part constitutes what it means to be a human being in a moment of late‐stage capitalism. As Morehouse and Cigliano (2020) report, glacial funerals are now being held in Iceland as a way of marking disappearance and persistent sea ice loss is credited as ushering into existence a ‘new Arctic’ (on the ‘new Arctic’, see Serreze, 2018). Morehouse and Cigliano (2020) suggest that the public mourning of glacial disappearance operates as an opportunity to think of ice as animate rather than inanimate, an idea similar to Cruickshank's detailing of Athabascan, Tlingit, and Eyak philosophies pertaining to glacial sentience, and the long held belief that glaciers are social actors that change physical, social and spiritual landscapes.…”

Section: From ‘Natural Region’ To Ice Core and Now ‘Atlantification’mentioning

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“…As Morehouse and Cigliano (2020) report, glacial funerals are now being held in Iceland as a way of marking disappearance and persistent sea ice loss is credited as ushering into existence a ‘new Arctic’ (on the ‘new Arctic’, see Serreze, 2018). Morehouse and Cigliano (2020) suggest that the public mourning of glacial disappearance operates as an opportunity to think of ice as animate rather than inanimate, an idea similar to Cruickshank's detailing of Athabascan, Tlingit, and Eyak philosophies pertaining to glacial sentience, and the long held belief that glaciers are social actors that change physical, social and spiritual landscapes. This is a loss that cannot be adequately captured by metrics such as ice melt and surface area exposure but something that speaks to the connections between ice and the life‐worlds of others.…”

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Against decline? The geographies and temporalities of the Arctic cryosphere

Dodds

Smith

2022

Geographical Journal

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Over centuries, Western desires of Arctic space have consistently worked to render icy locales of the North legible to an audience further south. In non‐Indigenous reportage, the Arctic has been framed through a dominating lens that narrates it as a ‘natural region’ or cryosphere where elemental qualities such as cold, ice, snow and darkness reign supreme. The cryosphere is often overwhelmingly dissected and demarcated not by Indigenous historical and ongoing claims to space, but instead through the documented presence of particular biota as they correlate to lines of latitude and/or cold temporalities (e.g., ‘frozen for most of the year’). New descriptors such as ‘Atlantification’ are the latest in a line of tropes and descriptors being used to account and audit an Arctic that is said to be undergoing fundamental ‘declinist’ state‐change. Judged to be no longer satisfactorily described as a circumpolar region, rigidly defined by coldness north of the Arctic Circle, the Arctic's physical and environmental qualities are now being cultivated as a ‘new Arctic’. Ice and cold are fundamental to the everyday working and spiritual lives of northern communities. We argue that there are timely opportunities for ice humanities scholars to be mindful of enduring inhumanities in the sense of erasing/dispossessing those who inhabit worlds where there are co‐relationalities with ice, multi‐species relationships, and multiple spatialities, seasonalities and temporalities that do not pivot around Euro‐American/global framings of time and space, geopolitical worlding and extractive capitalism.

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Against decline? The geographies and temporalities of the Arctic cryosphere

Dodds

Smith

2022

Geographical Journal

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ICE: Cold intelligence

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2024

Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies

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Sense and Consent in Cocreating with Earth Others

Morehouse

Morse

2023

Environmental Humanities

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Recent debates around multispecies communities emphasize collaboration across difference for fostering intimate relations with the world. The basic premise is simple: a richer understanding of the ways in which we are connected to the world will yield greater care for the world. However, while collaboration across difference might close conceptual and material gaps between self and other, and nature and society, it is not always clear whether or how collaboration should take place. Indeed, largely absent in these debates are matters concerning cross-species consent. It can be challenging to obtain consent or ascertain agreement in the absence of straightforward communication. To address the whether and how of collaboration across difference, this article draws on ethnographic research on dowsing—a traditional method for finding underground water and other invisible or intangible resources—in the United States and the United Kingdom. This research shows how dowsers establish dialogue by attuning to Earth Others (e.g., water, plants, spirits) using various tools, such as dowsing rods, pendulums, and their own bodies. This article addresses how practitioners apply dowsing as a technique for communicating across human and more-than-human divides through ethical inquiries that tend to the agency and seek the consent of Earth Others in matters concerning land use. This research suggests that dowsing offers a reciprocal and dialogic strategy for collaborating with that which is often unseen, unheard, or ignored.

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Cultures and Concepts of Ice: Listening for Other Narratives in the Anthropocene

Cited by 4 publications

References 34 publications

Against decline? The geographies and temporalities of the Arctic cryosphere

Against decline? The geographies and temporalities of the Arctic cryosphere

ICE: Cold intelligence

Sense and Consent in Cocreating with Earth Others

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