Inuit Sentinels: Examining the Efficacy of (Life) Writing Climate Change in Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s The Right to Be Cold
The impact of climate change on Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic has been widely documented in a myriad of scientific publications. However, the cultural and identity shifts attached to these changes have often been overlooked in mainstream portrayals that center on ice melt and animal speci...
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ftunisalamanojs:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/30677 2023-05-15T14:50:54+02:00 Inuit Sentinels: Examining the Efficacy of (Life) Writing Climate Change in Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s The Right to Be Cold Miller, Claudia 2022-10-21 application/pdf https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/2254-1179/article/view/30677 https://doi.org/10.14201/candb.v11i77-94 eng eng University of Salamanca Press https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/2254-1179/article/view/30677/28737 https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/2254-1179/article/view/30677 doi:10.14201/candb.v11i77-94 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies; Vol. 11 (2022); 77-94 2254-1179 10.14201/candb.v11i info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2022 ftunisalamanojs https://doi.org/10.14201/candb.v11i77-94 https://doi.org/10.14201/candb.v11i 2022-10-25T23:13:42Z The impact of climate change on Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic has been widely documented in a myriad of scientific publications. However, the cultural and identity shifts attached to these changes have often been overlooked in mainstream portrayals that center on ice melt and animal species extinction to the detriment of the human factor. As many scholars have stated (Patrizia Isabella Duda, 2017 and Andrew Stuhl, 2016), the risks embedded in Arctic climate change must be considered as directly related to a demise of culture, education, and the social conditions of Inuit communities. This paper examines Inuit experience as a human-centered approach to climate change in Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s The Right to Be Cold (2015). The text explores how Inuit ways of being are inseparable from the Arctic environment, demonstrating the vulnerability, adaptability and ingenuity of Inuit communities in the face of environmental crisis. Informed by Inuit epistemology and impregnated with feeling, I will argue how the autobiographical subject positions interlaced with affectivity in The Right exemplify Inuit life writing as essential contributions to climate change discourse. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change inuit Universidad de Salamanca: Gestor Revistas Online Arctic Duda ENVELOPE(-67.183,-67.183,-68.800,-68.800) Sheila ENVELOPE(-44.766,-44.766,-60.716,-60.716) Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies 11 77 94 |
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The impact of climate change on Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic has been widely documented in a myriad of scientific publications. However, the cultural and identity shifts attached to these changes have often been overlooked in mainstream portrayals that center on ice melt and animal species extinction to the detriment of the human factor. As many scholars have stated (Patrizia Isabella Duda, 2017 and Andrew Stuhl, 2016), the risks embedded in Arctic climate change must be considered as directly related to a demise of culture, education, and the social conditions of Inuit communities. This paper examines Inuit experience as a human-centered approach to climate change in Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s The Right to Be Cold (2015). The text explores how Inuit ways of being are inseparable from the Arctic environment, demonstrating the vulnerability, adaptability and ingenuity of Inuit communities in the face of environmental crisis. Informed by Inuit epistemology and impregnated with feeling, I will argue how the autobiographical subject positions interlaced with affectivity in The Right exemplify Inuit life writing as essential contributions to climate change discourse. |
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Inuit Sentinels: Examining the Efficacy of (Life) Writing Climate Change in Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s The Right to Be Cold |
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