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Indigenous Arctic Infrastructures book cover

1st Edition

Indigenous Arctic Infrastructures

Edited By David G. Anderson, Jaanika Vider Copyright 2027
200 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book focuses on the concept of unwritten Indigenous Arctic infrastructures. It takes inspiration from activists in the field of Indigenous studies, who argue that ‘critical’ Indigenous infrastructures are often not railways, pipelines or data cables, but instead sacred places and sustainable craftsmanship. The authors in this collection challenge the standard definition of cultural heritage... Read more

List of Figures

Note on Indigenous Terms and Ethnonyms

List Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Indigenous Arctic Infrastructures

Jaanika Vider and David G. Anderson

2. The Agency of Sámi dwellings: Reclaiming the Goahte as an epistemology and resilient heritage
Maria Nordvall

3. Rethinking museum structure and terminology in Swedish Sábme
Matilda Sundström

4. Unwriting by return: reassembling Jáhkoš-Lásse’s collection in Guovdageaidnu
Anna Mossolova, Gro Birgit Ween and Johan Aslak Hætta

5. Ancestral spirits and iron pans: How Nawken navigate contested landscapes through spoken stories and objects of ‘Gypsy-ness’
David Donaldson

6.  Indigenous Infrastructures and Modes of Emplacement
Damian Castro and Mario Blaser

7. Life Happens on the Trails. Maintaining Dene Trails in the Canadian Subarctic
Laura Goyhenex

8. At home at the Manisha Nui Gathering
Carolina Tytelman

9. Portent Inscriptions: Infrastructures of Hope and Fear
David G. Anderson

Index

Biography

David G. Anderson is Professor and Chair in the Anthropology of the North at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

Jaanika Vider is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Tallinn University, Estonia.

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