Risky Futures : Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North

The volume examines complex intersections of environmental conditions, geopolitical tensions and local innovative reactions characterising ‘the Arctic’ in the early twenty-first century. What happens in the region (such as permafrost thaw or methane release) not only sweeps rapidly through local ecosystems but also has profound global implications. Bringing together a unique combination of authors who are local practitioners, indigenous scholars and international researchers, the book provides nuanced views of the social consequences of climate change and environmental risks across human and non-human realms.

Olga Ulturgasheva is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of Narrating the Future in Siberia: Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny (Berghahn Books 2012) and co-editor of Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia (Berghahn Books 2012).

Barbara Bodenhorn is an Emeritus Fellow at Pembroke College Cambridge and remains research active. She has worked on the North Slope of Alaska since 1980 and in rural Mexico since 2006.