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  • 1 - Existential Emergency

  • Julian Cribb, Council for the Human Future
  • Book:
    How to Fix a Broken Planet
    Published online:
    15 January 2023
    Print publication:
    05 January 2023, pp 1-11

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the ten mega-threats, how they link and why they must be solved together; why the solutions must occur at both global and personal levels; and the importance of the individual in saving humankind.

  • Bilateral collaboration between the Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) and United States Research Communities – from a vision to everyday practice

  • Jennifer L. Mercer, Josephine Nymand, Lauren E. Culler, Rebecca Lynge, Sten Lund, Bo Gregersen, Brett Makens, Ross A. Virginia, Kristian G. Moore
  • Journal:
    Polar Record / Volume 58 / 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    23 December 2022, e42
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  • Each year, hundreds of international researchers enter Greenland to conduct scientific fieldwork. Historically, they have had little interaction with local communities and scientists at Greenland research institutes. Recognising that collaboration between Greenland and the United States can yield better research, consider more diverse perspectives, articulate the benefits of research to Greenland society, and train the next generation in a collaborative framework, representatives from both countries have been engaged in a series of events to cultivate bilateral relationships. Here, we describe the process of these events (workshops, conference sessions, and public dialogues), the findings, and the outcomes that have followed. Prior to this focused engagement, United States and Greenland scientists typically pursued their research independently. Since the engagement, more researchers from both countries have successfully partnered to obtain funding for collaborative research. Furthermore, development of a bilateral collaboration network is underway. The focused approach on bilateral engagement also proved essential for maintaining research and other activities during the global pandemic. When United States researchers were prevented from entering Greenland, their Greenland partners were able to continue the fieldwork, ensuring that progress was not lost. Future international projects can build on these successes to expand collaborative and interdisciplinary research in Greenland.

  • The question of Icebergs: a cryo-history of Arctic submarine cables

  • Mette Simonsen Abildgaard
  • Journal:
    Polar Record / Volume 58 / 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 December 2022, e41
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  • “The Question of Icebergs” is a cryo-history (Sörlin, 2015) of Arctic infrastructures: How has ice and snow shaped communication infrastructures in the Arctic by both drawing in and deterring interest in travelling through, connecting with and building in the region? This study follows the case of the 160-year-old plans for “The Northern Route,” a transatlantic telegraph which would have placed Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands at the centre of transatlantic communication in the early 1860s. I draw on Actor-Network Theory and postcolonial studies to trace how notions of the Arctic Sublime, a dependency on “credible ice witnesses,” local ice knowledges and the “politics of comparison” influenced the eventual abandonment of the route, where Arctic territories were (dis)regarded and considered as mere “substrate” for infrastructure. I argue that this cryo-history of Arctic telecommunication infrastructures is an essential contribution to a new socio-technical agenda in cable studies, which shows how established logics about who to connect, and where, still influence infrastructural development in the region today.

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