The End of Nature? Inughuit Life on the Edge of Time
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The End of Nature? Inughuit Life on the Edge of Time. / Hastrup, Kirsten.
I: Ethnos, Bind 88, Nr. 1, 2023, s. 13-29.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The End of Nature?
T2 - Inughuit Life on the Edge of Time
AU - Hastrup, Kirsten
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The Inughuit of Northwest Greenland are hunters of marine mammals and other animal species of the High Arctic ecological system. Their life is rapidly changing along with the warming Arctic, and they experience massive changes in the environment that always sustained them. This fuels a question of the end of nature, to be addressed through three different natural materialities: ice, water, and land–all of them deeply infiltrating social life. The ice, now melting rapidly, has provided the infrastructure of moving into and about in the region. The water, now opening widely, has made marine mammals the major game. The land, now slowly expanding, increasingly features as a repository of unknown resources. It is suggested that the Inughuit have always dwelled within an ‘ending of nature’, seen as a non-linear process deeply embedded in larger geo-social processes of multiple temporalities.
AB - The Inughuit of Northwest Greenland are hunters of marine mammals and other animal species of the High Arctic ecological system. Their life is rapidly changing along with the warming Arctic, and they experience massive changes in the environment that always sustained them. This fuels a question of the end of nature, to be addressed through three different natural materialities: ice, water, and land–all of them deeply infiltrating social life. The ice, now melting rapidly, has provided the infrastructure of moving into and about in the region. The water, now opening widely, has made marine mammals the major game. The land, now slowly expanding, increasingly features as a repository of unknown resources. It is suggested that the Inughuit have always dwelled within an ‘ending of nature’, seen as a non-linear process deeply embedded in larger geo-social processes of multiple temporalities.
KW - emergent natures
KW - High Arctic landscapes
KW - melting ice
KW - protection
KW - ruination
U2 - 10.1080/00141844.2020.1853583
DO - 10.1080/00141844.2020.1853583
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85106484286
VL - 88
SP - 13
EP - 29
JO - Ethnos
JF - Ethnos
SN - 0014-1844
IS - 1
ER -
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