The Okjökull Memorial and Geohuman Relations
| dc.citation.firstpage | 30 | en_US |
| dc.citation.issueNumber | 1 | en_US |
| dc.citation.journalTitle | Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale | en_US |
| dc.citation.lastpage | 45 | en_US |
| dc.citation.volumeNumber | 32 | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Howe, Cymene | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Boyer, Dominic | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-04T16:25:13Z | en_US |
| dc.date.available | 2024-11-04T16:25:13Z | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Focusing on the life and death of Okjökull, the first of Iceland's major glaciers to disappear because of anthropogenic climate change, this article discusses the complex relationships between cryospheres and human communities in Iceland. It asks how distinctions between non-living entities and living beings can offer insights to anthropology, and transdisciplinarily, as a model for recognising mutual precarities between the living and non-living world in the face of anthropogenic climate change. Detailing the authors’ ethnographic encounters with Ok mountain and Okjökull (glacier), the authors argue that by attending to non-living forms, and by registering their ‘passing’ or loss, we are able to document and better comprehend threshold events in the larger life of the planet. Résumé En se concentrant sur la vie et la mort d'Okjökull, le premier des principaux glaciers islandais à disparaître en raison des changements climatiques anthropogéniques, cet article discute les relations complexes entre la cryosphère et les communautés humaines en Islande. Il questionne la manière dont les distinctions entre entités non vivantes et êtres vivants peuvent offrir des perspectives à l'anthropologie et la transdisciplinarité en tant que modèle pour reconnaitre des précarités mutuelles entre monde vivant et non vivant en face du changement climatique anthropogénique. En détaillant la rencontre ethnographique entre les auteurs, la montagne Ok et l'Okjökull (le glacier), les auteurs défendent l'idée qu'en prenant acte des formes non vivantes et en marquant leur « disparition » ou leur perte, nous sommes en mesure de documenter et de mieux comprendre les événements de bascule dans la vie de notre planète. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Howe, C., & Boyer, D. (2024). The Okjökull Memorial and Geohuman Relations. https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2024.320104 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.digital | saas-saas320104 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2024.320104 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/118006 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Berghahn Books | en_US |
| dc.rights | Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the terms of the license or beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder. | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_US |
| dc.title | The Okjökull Memorial and Geohuman Relations | en_US |
| dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | en_US |
| dc.type.publication | publisher version | en_US |
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