Book Launch - Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic

Grounded in the spatiality of Indigenous existence, Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic is a book about experiences and conceptions of geography in the circumpolar world.

Centering Arctic writers and artists as creators of space and disseminators of geographical knowledge emerging from Indigenous epistemologies, it collects newly commissioned poems, short stories, and essays as well as responses in the form of visual art – including paintings, photographs, and mixed media artworks – and critical reflections.

Containing multiple languages – from English and Russian to North Sámi, Kalaallisut, and Sakha – as well as translations, the book is grounded in dialogues and conversations between creative practitioners from across the circumpolar North. Among others, they include Alutiiq, Eyak, Gwich’in, Innu, Inupiaq, Inuvialuk, Lingit, Sámi, and Yup’ik writers and visual artists, alongside Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars.

Extending ‘geo-’ beyond earth and ‘-graphy’ beyond writing, the creative geographies of Circumpolar Connections powerfully expand the Arctic into manifold spaces imagined by a multiplicity of Indigenous stories and aesthetic forms. In doing so, they offer circumpolar conversations grounded in Arctic communities in the context of global geopolitics.