The nomadic landscape: People in a changing Arctic environment |
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| Authors: | Kirsten Hastrup |
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| Institution: | Department of Anthropology , University of Copenhagen , Denmark E-mail: kirsten.hastrup@anthro.ku.dk |
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| Abstract: | Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 109(2):181–189, 2009 The paper will explore the sense of place in the Thule district, Northern Greenland, including the emotional topography by which people live. The analytical framework is the notion of a nomadic landscape, drawing from the essay on nomadology by Deleuze & Guattari (2004). The nomadic landscape is constituted by a network of spatial centres—or points of reference—from each of which an infinite spatial realm takes its beginning. The ambition is to demonstrate how, in a nomadic landscape, movement is integral to memory, sociability and experience; this is vital to the understanding of present day responses to the reduced mobility owing to changing weather and ice conditions in the Thule district. |
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| Keywords: | Arctic landscapes climate change hunting practices Greenland |
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