Show threadPatrik 🐨Jan 21, 2023

"As we move upstream, the foliage blurs into an anticipated order of branches and leaves. The dark break in this pattern sends a startle down the optic nerve. The shadow moves again, before its formlessness resolves: a moose. Head lifting, he steps clear of the willows, keeping one round eye always on us."

Bathsheba Demuth on a #Gwitchin #Moose Hunt.

#arctic #erosion #ecology #history #anthropocene

🙏 @emergencemagazine

🧶6/x #BatshebaDemuth

https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/living-in-the-bones/

Living in the Bones

On a moose hunt north of the Arctic Circle, Bathsheba Demuth observes two contrasting narratives manifest along the banks of the Ch’izhìn Nji: one of conquest, another of quiet knowing and restraint.

Emergence Magazine
Show threadPatrik 🐨Jan 21, 2023

#Mosquitoes are like #krill in the air - Arctic ecology🥰

Batsheba Demuth talking with Derrick Jensen. Worst interview method I heard for some time but still great worth in the answers provided. So maybe it is a great method.

🧶5/x #BatshebaDemuth

#mosquitoes #environment #history #BeringStrait #indiginouspeople

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3YGKCH1X5Dettoh4dLot2Z?si=0W4vq1pFQaKQvqMizbHsVA&utm_source=copy-link

Resistance Radio - Interview of Bathsheba Demuth

Listen to this episode from Resistance Radio on Spotify. Bathsheba Demuth is a writer and environmental historian specializing in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. Her interest in northern places and cultures began when she was 18 and moved to the village of Old Crow in the Yukon, where she trained huskies for several years. From the archive to the dog sled, she is interested in how the histories of people, ideas, and ecologies intersect. In addition to her prize-winning book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, her writing has appeared in publications from The American Historical Review to The New Yorker and The Best American Science and Nature Writing. She is currently the Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University.

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Show threadPatrik 🐨Jan 19, 2023

"Early morning sun, late in a summer of intense heat. Here, twenty miles north of the Arctic Circle, the light is dilute, low on the horizon and stained orange by forest-fire smoke blown from the Siberian interior."

Another fantastic story by Batsheba Demuth in @emergencemagazine

#reindeer #chukchi #climate #apocalypse #revolution #arctic

🧶4/x #BatshebaDemuth

https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/reindeer-at-the-end-of-the-world/

Reindeer at the End of the World – Bathsheba Demuth

Bathsheba Demuth observes the rise and ruin of the Soviet ideology that sought to impose its linear vision on the natural cycles of the Russian tundra.

Emergence Magazine
Show threadPatrik 🐨Jan 15, 2023

What is a #whale - #BathshebaDemuth compares in this essay the cultural difference between relationships based on reciprocity and commodification!

#whaling #beringsea

3/x #BatshebaDemuth

https://www.environmentandsociety.org/perspectives/2019/6/article/what-whale-cetacean-value-bering-strait-1848-1900

What is a Whale? Cetacean Value at the Bering Strait, 1848–1900

Bathsheba Demuth looks at the value of whales for indigenous peoples around the Bering Strait.

Environment & Society Portal
Patrik 🐨Jan 11, 2023

🧶 The best of Bathsheba Demuth

Listened yesterday and the day before to this podcast with Dr. Demuth on the #beringsea #arctic #whales #whaling #indiginouspeople #capitalism #communism #greenpeace and much more!
It was so fantastic I would guess at then end of this year it will hold on to the position off being one of the best of the year.

1/x #BatshebaDemuth
http://www.whenwetalkaboutanimals.org/2020/02/10/ep-28-bathsheba-demuth/

When We Talk About Animals - Ep. 28 - Bathsheba Demuth on capitalism, communism and Arctic ecology

In her acclaimed book "Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait," historian Bathsheba Demuth of Brown University explores how capitalism, communism, and ecology have clashed for over 150 years in the remote region of Beringia, the Arctic lands and waters stretching between Russia and Canada.

When We Talk About Animals