Global change science and the Arctic citizen

• Published in: Science and Public Policy
• Main Author: Martello, Marybeth Long
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2004
• Subjects: Local knowledge; Arctic
• Online Access: http://spp.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/31/2/107; https://doi.org/10.3152/147154304781780082

This paper argues that global change science is both shaping and being shaped by a new type of citizen, namely the Arctic citizen, in at least three ways. First, global change science regionalizes the Arctic and underwrites an Arctic identity centered on the notion that its peoples comprise an at-risk community. Second, the ways in which science imagines nature-society interactions assume a certain agency (or lack thereof) on the part of the citizen. Third, global change science is recognizing new local voices in interpreting environmental phenomena and their implications for Arctic socio-ecological systems.