Reframing climate change into meaningful local experiences: critical reflexivity with stories from Ittoqqortoormiit (Inuit Nunaat)

• Main Authors: Sandré, Tanguy, Gherardi, J.-M., Vanderlinden, Jean-Paul, Huctin, Jean-Michel
• Other Authors: Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat (CEARC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT), University of Bergen (UiB), Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette (LSCE), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Observatoire de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (OVSQ), IASC
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: narrative; place-based community; climate; local terminal risks; critical ethnography; reflexivity; [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; Arctic; Climate change; inuit; Ittoqqortoormiit
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04497514; https://hal.science/hal-04497514/document; https://hal.science/hal-04497514/file/POSTER-SESSION_TanguySandr.pdf; https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.35383.70566

International audience Rescaling and re-grounding environmental upheavals and climate change's narratives into meaningful and salient place-based experiences of the world (s) is both urgent and crucial. There are robust evidences that the entangled crisis (that is not limited to climate) is threatening with higher intensity certain ways-of-being in the world, which are also the less accountable for the situation. Nevertheless, dominant narratives generate a discourse oriented towards uniformity and lin-earity. We, therefore, critically scrutinize the Anthropocene and Existential Risks, as global and western-based narratives that pursue historical dominance and epis-temic injustice by underplaying alterity as expressed in power imbalance. Our analysis is grounded with empirical insights from the Arctic town of Ittoqqortoormiit (Inuit Nunaat), where long-dwelling and repetitive fieldworks are conducted. This approach sheds lights on unheard stories. Deploying critical ethnography, we reflect on our research position, trying to tame a (decolonial) way of being respectfully working with/within/for marginalized communities. Finally, we will be in a position to question the relevance and discuss the potential and conditions for bridging climate sciences and local narratives of change.