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Claudia Miller is a PhD researcher (FPI) at the University of La Laguna (ULL) working on the representations of Arctic climate change in Inuit memoirs for her doctoral dissertation under the auspices of a Predoctoral Contract from the Gobierno de Canarias, Consejería de Economía Conocimiento y Empleo with funding from the Social European Fund. She has an English Studies degree (ULL) and a Master's in English Literature and Culture (UNED) and has completed an international research stay at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (USA). Currently, she is part of the research group "The Premise of Happiness: The Function of Feelings in North American Narratives" (PID2020-113190GB-C21).
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Inuit Sentinels: Examining the Efficacy of (Life) Writing Climate Change in Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s The Right to Be Cold, 2022
The impact of climate change on Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic has been widely document... more The impact of climate change on Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic has been widely documented in a myriad of scientific publications. However, the cultural and identity shifts attached to these changes have often been overlooked in mainstream portrayals that center on ice melt and animal species extinction to the detriment of the human factor. As many scholars have stated (Patrizia Isabella Duda, 2017 and Andrew Stuhl, 2016), the risks embedded in Arctic climate change must be considered as direct- ly related to a demise of culture, education, and the social conditions of Inuit commun- ities. This paper examines Inuit experience as a human-centered approach to climate change in Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s The Right to Be Cold (2015). The text explores how Inuit ways of being are inseparable from the Arctic environment, demonstrating the vul- nerability, adaptability and ingenuity of Inuit communities in the face of environmental crisis. Informed by Inuit epistemology and impregnated with feeling, I will argue how the autobiographical subject positions interlaced with affectivity in The Right exemplify Inuit life writing as essential contributions to climate change discourse.
Inuit Sentinels: Examining the Efficacy of (Life) Writing Climate Change in Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s The Right to Be Cold, 2022
The impact of climate change on Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic has been widely document... more The impact of climate change on Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic has been widely documented in a myriad of scientific publications. However, the cultural and identity shifts attached to these changes have often been overlooked in mainstream portrayals that center on ice melt and animal species extinction to the detriment of the human factor. As many scholars have stated (Patrizia Isabella Duda, 2017 and Andrew Stuhl, 2016), the risks embedded in Arctic climate change must be considered as direct- ly related to a demise of culture, education, and the social conditions of Inuit commun- ities. This paper examines Inuit experience as a human-centered approach to climate change in Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s The Right to Be Cold (2015). The text explores how Inuit ways of being are inseparable from the Arctic environment, demonstrating the vul- nerability, adaptability and ingenuity of Inuit communities in the face of environmental crisis. Informed by Inuit epistemology and impregnated with feeling, I will argue how the autobiographical subject positions interlaced with affectivity in The Right exemplify Inuit life writing as essential contributions to climate change discourse.