![]() ![]() One way to be more critical about the language of climate change narratives is to evaluate the extent to which they can account for, and mitigate, growing inequalities of power and wealth. Policy responses across a range of diverse geographical contexts require new narratives that put communities back into the calculus of risk and decision-making. ![]() This may ultimately impede the development of different aspects of civic participation by northern citizens with climate change policy opportunities. It is argued that such definitions heighten the sense of risk implicit in climate change impacts. ![]() Definitions of ecosystem resilience, while providing a framework for comparing disparate cultural and ecological contexts, are predicated on avoiding systemic collapse. These narratives envisage Arctic citizenship within very narrow parameters which have largely masked the voices of northern citizens. Dominant climate change narratives about the Arctic emphasise the power of global climate systems to threaten northern communities by situating them as being intrinsically ‘at risk’. The latter, like development narratives, are often used to license the intervention of experts in debates about resource management and conservation. This paper argues that indigenous peoples' responses to climate change are better understood in relation to emerging notions of citizenship than to climate change crisis narratives. ![]()
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