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Book Review: Knowing Places: The Inuinnait, Landscapes and the Environment

Knowing Places: The Inuinnait, Landscapes and the Environment, Béatrice Collignon. Translation of Les Inuit : ce qu’ils savent du territoire. Translation and scientific editing by Linna Weber Müller-Willie. Circumpolar Research Series No.10,  CCI Press, University of Alberta: Edmonton, Canada, 2006. ISSN 0838133X.

The points become fewer, the lines fade out as fewer and fewer people travel along [...]

Northwest Passage

European Space Agency Envisat mosaic image of summer sea ice in the Arctic. I’m in Ottawa and Washington this month doing interviews for a preliminary project with Phil Steinberg (Florida State University) on contested sovereignties in the Arctic and on Canada’s ‘virtual sovereignty’ in the North. On the one hand, we are reliably [...]