“Exceeding Beringia”: Upending universal human events and wayward transits in Arctic spaces

• Published in: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
• Main Author: Smith, Jen Rose
• Other Authors: Ford Foundation, University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2020
• Subjects: Inupiaq; Beringia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775820950745; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0263775820950745; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0263775820950745

In this article I examine the enlistment of Arctic ice to tell grand, universal stories about humanity’s origins and endings. Specifically, I analyze 18th century Natural History musings that linked Arctic climate to race and human difference. I demonstrate that these musings are constitutive to an...