Arctic Triumph

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. A Light at the End of the Arctic Tunnel? Introducing a Triumphant Discourse on Arctic Scholarship

   • Nikolas Sellheim, Yulia V. Zaika, Ilan Kelman

   Pages 1-6

3. Narrating Arctic Indigenous Fantasies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Narrating Indigeneity in the Arctic: Scripts of Disaster Resilience Versus the Poetics of Autonomy

      • Julian Reid

      Pages 9-21

   3. European Fantasy of the Arctic Region and the Rise of Indigenous Sámi Voices in the Global Arena

      • Reetta Toivanen

      Pages 23-40

4. From Homestead to Homeland

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. Cultural Heritage, or How Bad News Can Also Be Good

      • Susan Barr

      Pages 43-57

   3. Rehabilitation of the Northern Home: A Multigenerational Pathway

      • Yulia V. Zaika

      Pages 59-80

5. Making Rights Work

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Compensation for Impact of Industrial Projects in Russia to Indigenous Peoples of the North

      • Tuyara N. Gavrilyeva, Natalia P. Yakovleva, Sardana I. Boyakova, Raisa I. Bochoeva

      Pages 83-104

   3. The Arctic Council and the Advancement of Indigenous Rights

      • Nikolas Sellheim

      Pages 105-125

6. Risky Business with a Silver Lining

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. Not All Black and White: The Environmental Dimension of Arctic Exploration

      • Nadia French

      Pages 129-146

   3. Arctic Disaster Risk Reduction and Response as Triumph?

      • Patrizia Isabelle Duda, Ilan Kelman

      Pages 147-162

   4. Triumphant Geopolitics? Making Space of and for Arctic Geopolitics in the Arctic Ocean

      • Klaus Dodds, Chih Yuan Woon

      Pages 163-180

   5. Fostering US-Russia Cooperation in the Arctic Through Disaster Diplomacy Efforts

      • Yekaterina Y. Kontar

      Pages 181-192

7. Back Matter

   Pages 193-194

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This book approaches the challenges the Arctic has faced and is facing through a lens of opportunity. Through pinpointed examples from and dealing with the Circumpolar North, the Arctic is depicted as a region where people and peoples have managed to endure despite significant challenges at hand. This book treats the ‘Arctic of disasters’ as an innovated narrative and asks how the ‘disaster pieces’ of Arctic discourse interact with the ability of Arctic peoples, communities and regions to counter disaster, adversity, and doom. While not neglecting the scientifically established challenges associated with climate change and other (potentially) disastrous processes in the north, this book calls for a paradigm shift from perceiving the ‘Arctic of disasters’ to an ‘Arctic of triumph’. Particular attention is therefore given to selected Arctic achievements that underline ‘triumphant’ developments in the north, even when Arctic triumph and disaster intersect.

• Arctic: communities, cultures, traditions, livelihoods
• Arctic sea ice melt and climate change
• Human dimension of Arctic disasters and triumphs
• Cultural heritage of the Arctic
• New technologies in the Arctic
• Arctic success stories
• Arctic opportunities
• Overcoming Arctic challenges
• polar geography
• climate change impacts

“This book would serve as an excellent reading companion or case study set in an advanced undergraduate or graduate-level course in geography, environmental economics, international geopolitics, disaster management, or related discipline. It embeds the concepts of nature-society relationships, sense of place and place-making processes, and the socio-cultural dimensions of disaster management amid a rapidly changing and politicized set of Arctic environments.” (Michelle A. Ritchie, Eurasian Geography and Economics, August 22, 2022)

• Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

  Nikolas Sellheim

• Khibiny Research and Educational Station, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Kirovsk, Russia

  Yulia V. Zaika

• IGH and IRDR, University College London, London, UK, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

  Ilan Kelman

Nikolas Sellheim is a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), University of Helsinki. His primary research deals with the role of local communities in international conservation law and he has intensively published on the seal hunt. His book The Seal Hunt. Cultures, Economies and Legal Regimes was published by Brill in 2018. He works as co-Editor-in-Chief of Polar Record, published by Cambridge University Press.

Yuliya Zaika is a researcher at the Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Holding a Specialist degree in Environmental management, Yulia has devoted 6 years of her scientific pathway to study the snow cover changes in the Russian Arctic. Driven by the interests in socio-economic development of the northern home region and by the family history, Yulia has made a transition from natural sciences to more social perspective, and is at the moment finishing her PhD thesis devoted to the socio-economic and environmental challenges and paradigms in the development of single-industry (mining) communities of the Murmansk region as a part of the Barents Euro-Arctic Region. 

Ilan Kelman is a Reader in Risk, Resilience and Global Health at University College London, England and a researcher at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health research, which is crucial for the Arctic. This approach covers three main areas: (i) disaster diplomacy and health diplomacy (ii) island sustainability involving safe and healthy communities in isolated locations including the Arctic and (iii) risk education for health and disasters.

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