Society of Scholars Cohort Archive

Kivalina’s Horizons: Iñupiaq Resurgence in an Age of Climate Change

This book project draws on twelve years of collaborative knowledge production with Kivalina—a 500-person Iñupiaq community in Northwest Alaska, located on a barrier island at the edge of the Chukchi Sea. Combining environmental history and contemporary ethnography, Kivalina's Horizons situates the disruptions of Arctic climate change in the context of ongoing colonialism, extractive capitalism, and Indigenous resurgence practices. At the intersection of Indigenous studies, environmental humanities, and critical anthropology, the book especially attends to the ways in which community members are sustaining, restoring, and strengthening crucial ecological and social relationships amid the intensifying disruptions of the Anthropocene.