Living With Animals in this Anthropocene Moment: Arctic perspectives - UiT miljøhumaniora 19
In this session, we lead a round table discussion prompted by presentations of work in progress. The goal of the discussion is to suggest ways to think and imagine beyond the dominant Anthropocene assumptions about human-animal relationships in Arctic environments.
How, for example, do the stories we narrate about arctic animals, the art we create, and the media we employ, influence how we might rethink environmental crises? How do human lives depend on the lives of whales, beavers, and seals? How do the lives of whales, beavers, and seals influence human lives? How do humans benefit from planetary perspectives comprised of multiple animal intelligences?
To guide our conversation, Sigfrid Kjeldaas introduces Beaver Diffractions: On care, Maintenance, and Management in this Anthropocene Moment; Sakura Koretsune’s art explores the issue of Reweaving Worldviews and Networking the People Who Live With Whales: a Practice of Artistic Project “Ordinary Whales”; Laura Castor addresses seal hunting in Decolonial Interruptions of Settler Time in Tanya Tagaq’s Multimodal Art.