People in a changing Arctic environment

• Main Author: Kirsten Hastrup
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: climate change; hunting practices; Greenland; Arctic; Climate change; Thule
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.492.1152; http://rdgs.dk/djg/pdfs/109/2/pp_181-189_109_2.pdf

The paper will explore the sense of place in the Thule district, North-ern Greenland, including the emotional topography by which people live. The analytical framework is the notion of a nomadic land-scape, drawing from the essay on nomadology by Deleuze & Guattari (2004). The nomadic landscape is constituted by a network of spatial centres – or points of reference – from each of which an infinite spa-tial realm takes its beginning. The ambition is to demonstrate how, in a nomadic landscape, movement is integral to memory, sociabil-ity and experience; this is vital to the understanding of present day responses to the reduced mobility owing to changing weather and ice conditions in the Thule district.