Middle Dorset communal living at Alarniq, northern Foxe Basin, Inuit Nunangat (Arctic Canada)

Howse, Lesley; Savelle, James M.; Dyke, Arthur S.

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101307

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“…Between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, the Thule people's facility with skinboats ( kayaks and umiaks ) led to the rapid expansion of coastal settlements from Alaska to Greenland. In contrast, the earlier Dorset inhabitants hunted from the ice and do not appear to have used watercraft (Howse et al, 2021). In the twentieth century, the militaries and corporations of countries such as the United States, Soviet Union and Germany advanced a stratigraphic use of the Arctic with submarines that sailed under the ice, oil rigs that crushed it, and jet planes that soared above it (Bennett et al, 2016; Berry, 2012; Nuttall, 2019; Petersen, 2008).…”

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Remote control? Chinese satellite infrastructure in and above the Arctic global commons

Bennett

Eiterjord

2023

Geographical Journal

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China is expanding its Arctic presence by developing infrastructure in the global commons that intersect with the region. Operations in outer space, the deep sea and cyberspace minimise the need for terrestrial footholds and generate data, a virtual resource. To analyse the epistemic and geopolitical consequences of developing the Arctic global commons as a vertically and digitally integrated volume, we examine a critical form of Chinese ‘remote infrastructure’: optical, synthetic aperture radar, and navigation satellites. We argue that first, by generating data about the Arctic, these instruments turn China into a regional knowledge producer. Second, as remote observations outnumber field observations, Chinese polar science may shift the regional balance of knowledge towards spaceborne and marine observations. Third, China's emergence as an Arctic knowledge producer may motivate the state to contribute to regional governance as remote sensing and large‐scale, computationally intensive techniques become privileged decision‐making tools. To transcend the terrestrial and maritime fixes that predominate research on China and the Arctic, we call for greater attention to the influence of epistemic capacities on geopolitics.

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Remote control? Chinese satellite infrastructure in and above the Arctic global commons

Bennett

Eiterjord

2023

Geographical Journal

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Hunter-gatherer aggregations writ large: Economy, interaction, and ritual in the final days of the Tuniit (Late Dorset) culture

Friesen

2022

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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Middle Dorset communal living at Alarniq, northern Foxe Basin, Inuit Nunangat (Arctic Canada)

Cited by 2 publications

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Remote control? Chinese satellite infrastructure in and above the Arctic global commons

Remote control? Chinese satellite infrastructure in and above the Arctic global commons

Hunter-gatherer aggregations writ large: Economy, interaction, and ritual in the final days of the Tuniit (Late Dorset) culture

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