Arctic voices : resistance at the tipping point
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- ISBN: 160980385X (hardback)
- ISBN: 9781609803858 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
ix, 550 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Seven Stories Press, c2012.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | From Kolkata to Kaktovik en route to Arctic voices something like an introduction / Subhankar Banerjee -- Here's what you can do to keep wild alive / Emilie Karrick Surrusco and Cindy Shogan -- Part I: -- Snapshot of now -- (from) Early warming: crisis and response in the climate-changed north / Nancy Lord -- They have no ears / Riki Ott -- BPing the Arctic? / Subhankar Banerjee -- Teshekpuk in the Arcic's biggest wetland / Steve Zack and Joe Liebezeit -- Protecting the apples but chopping the trees / Andri Snær Magnason -- Part II: -- Pain and joy of being connected -- (from) Silent snow: the slow poisoning of the Arctic / Marla Cone -- The fall of the Yukon kings / Dan O'Neill -- Following cranes to the Arctic / George Archibald -- Broken promises: the reality of big oil in America's Arctic / Pamela A. Miller -- (from) Kivalina: a climate change story / Christine Shearer -- Part III: -- We are the caribou people -- (from) People of the deer / Farley Mowat -- Caribou currency / Seth Kantner -- We'll fight to protect the caribou calving ground and Gwich'in way of life / Jonathon Solomon, Sarah James, and Reverend Trimble Gilbert -- Caribou time / Nick Jans -- Part IV: -- Arctic ocean is our garden -- (from) Arctic dreams: imagination and desire in a northern landscape / Barry Lopez -- We will fight to protect the Arctic ocean and our way of life / Robert Thompson, Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, Caroline Cannon, and Earl Kingik -- Dancing for the whales: Kivġiq and cultural resilience among the people of the whales / Chie Sakakibara -- Part V: -- Reporting from the field -- (from) Coming into the country / John McPhee -- In the great country / Peter Matthiessen -- Coast to coast: perilous journeys with Arctic shorebirds / Stephen Brown -- In calloused human hands: Tuullik, Teshekpuk, and our western Arctic / Jeff Fair -- Part VI: -- Decade, after decade, after decade -- (from) Two in the far north / Margaret E. Murie -- (from) Being Caribou / Karsten Heuer -- (from) Midnight wilderness / Debbie S. Miller -- Saving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge / George B. Schaller -- Part VII: -- We gather; we speak out; we organize -- A brief history of native solidarity / Maria Shaa Tláa Williams -- We'll fight to protect the Gwich'in homeland and our way of life, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge / Chief Dacho Alexander, Marilyn Savage, and Matthew Gilbert -- Past and present, culture in progress / Velma Wallis -- (from) The reindeer people: living with animals and sprits in Siberia / Piers Vitebsky. |
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