Do glaciers listen? Local knowledge, colonial encounters, and social imagination – By Julie Cruikshank

Henshaw, Anne

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9655.2007.00423_8.x

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“…While this historical account is based on winter conditions and the referenced location is distant from the NWNA sites analyzed here, it is possible that this reported cold event was related to impacts from the 1809 eruption. In the southern and central Yukon, oral histories from Indigenous elders also suggest periods of extreme cold and human loss during the late Little Ice Age, though the exact years are unknown (Cruikshank, 2001, 2007). Further research of historical records and Indigenous oral tradition in NWNA could be a valuable complement or supplement to paleoclimate data for assessing regional climate extremes of the past and potential human‐environment interactions (e.g., Adamson, 2015; E. R. Cook, Anchukaitis, et al., 2010a, 2010b; Degroot et al., 2021; Di Cosmo et al., 2018; Jacoby et al., 1999; Liang et al., 2006; Nash et al., 2021; Stahle & Dean, 2011; Woodhouse et al., 2002), particularly with regard to volcanic eruptions (e.g., Blong, 1982; D’Arrigo et al., 2020; Guillet et al., 2017; Mackay et al., 2022; Moodie et al., 1992).…”

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A Spatiotemporal Assessment of Extreme Cold in Northwestern North America Following the Unidentified 1809 CE Volcanic Eruption

Leland

D’Arrigo

Davi

et al. 2023

Paleoceanog and Paleoclimatol

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The early nineteenth century was one of the coldest periods of the Little Ice Age (LIA; ∼1450-1850Grove, 1988; PAGES 2k Consortium, 2019;Wilson et al., 2016a). Cold conditions during this time have been attributed to several large tropical volcanic eruptions, as well as reduced solar activity during the Dalton Minimum (∼1790-1830Brönnimann et al., 2019). The most significant eruption of this period, the 1815 Tambora event in Sumbawa, Indonesia, resulted in the largest volcanic stratospheric sulfur injection (VSSI) of the nineteenth century, with well-documented but varying regional climatic and human impacts during the subsequent "year without a summer"

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A Spatiotemporal Assessment of Extreme Cold in Northwestern North America Following the Unidentified 1809 CE Volcanic Eruption

Leland

D’Arrigo

Davi

et al. 2023

Paleoceanog and Paleoclimatol

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“…For many of us, who we are and how we see the world is shaped deeply by our relationships with other people and nature, including animals and plants, and even physical objects (e.g. Cruikshank, 2007). Organisms have no intrinsic properties, although properties may appear intrinsic over short time periods, small spatial scales, or limited ecological contexts.…”

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Empirical examples demonstrate how relational thinking might enrich science and practice

2023

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Interdependent relationships among humans and nature often go overlooked, delaying better environmental, social and public health outcomes. Emerging approaches have emphasized thinking through relationships, which we call ‘relational thinking’. Threads of relational thinking have matured in areas such as anthropology and Indigenous scholarship, and interest is growing across many disciplines. Welcoming this new cadre of relational thinkers requires a more broadly accessible synthesis. Sustainability scholars have begun to overcome these barriers with high‐level overviews and broad calls to adopt relational thinking. This literature has investigated the conceptual underpinnings of relational thinking, but the concrete, empirical benefits of relational thinking for understanding human–natural systems remain obscure. Here, we introduce a wide range of accessible empirical examples to demonstrate the potential for relational thinking to illuminate diverse coupled human‐and‐natural systems. We complement these examples with an overview of the theory behind relational thinking. We use these empirical examples to argue that some conventional methods are consistent with relational thinking, particularly when accompanied by deliberation and flexibility about which relationships to target, why, and how. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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“…Across the world, in regions where the impacts of climate change are observable on a local scale, local people are engaging with scientific discourses of climate change. As Cruikshank (2005:25) notes, ‘if climate change is indeed global, its consequences are profoundly local’. Cruikshank describes how her Tlingit research participants in the Yukon Territory are implicated in contemporary climate change debates and the universalising discourse of science that has, in some contexts, been used to exclude local people from managing their land.…”

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The Wet: Shifting Seasons, Climate Change and Natural Cycles in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland

Reardon‐Smith

2023

Oceania

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Land managers in Cape York Peninsula, far northeast Australia, hold different ideas around the causes of climate variability. Understandings of changes in climate are underpinned by particular environmental knowledges, values, and practices. These understandings are articulated in the context of the wet season, when land managers must adapt to the changing duration and intensity of the rainfall each year. The wet and dry seasons function as cyclical agents that precipitate different modes of living and working among different groups of people in Cape York. Where settler‐descended cattle graziers tend to frame climate variability as ‘natural cycles’, Aboriginal rangers link climate variability to anthropogenic climate change. The tendency among Aboriginal rangers to link these changes to anthropogenic climate change is a result of the interpenetration of a Western scientific land management model with an Aboriginal land management model in the formal co‐management of protected areas. From this context, a ‘spatial vernacular’ of interculturally produced climate‐related knowledge emerges. The explanatory models different land managers draw on to understand climate variation in relation to seasonal water, changes to the wet season, and the increased frequency of extreme weather events are linked to their livelihoods, lifeways, and the forms of environmental knowledge they value.

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Do glaciers listen? Local knowledge, colonial encounters, and social imagination – By Julie Cruikshank

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A Spatiotemporal Assessment of Extreme Cold in Northwestern North America Following the Unidentified 1809 CE Volcanic Eruption

A Spatiotemporal Assessment of Extreme Cold in Northwestern North America Following the Unidentified 1809 CE Volcanic Eruption

Empirical examples demonstrate how relational thinking might enrich science and practice

The Wet: Shifting Seasons, Climate Change and Natural Cycles in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland

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