Sensing Climate Change and Expressing Environmental Citizenship

• Published in: Program Earth p. 111
• Main Author: JENNIFER GABRYS
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Minnesota Press 13.04.2016
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Art genres and movements; Art history; Arts; Astronomical instrumentation; Astronomy; Biological sciences; Bodies of water; Carbon compounds; Carbon dioxide; Chemical compounds; Chemistry; Citizenship; Civics; Climate change; Earth sciences; Ecology; Environmental art; Environmental monitoring; Environmental quality; Environmental sciences; Environmental studies; Environmental technology; Geography; Geomorphology; Lakes; Measuring instruments; Observatories; Physical sciences; Political science; Sensors; Technology
• ISBN: 0816693145; 9780816693146

In late September 2011, I traveled as far north as I had previously ever been to spend a week in an arts-and-sciences laboratory at a biological field station in Lapland. The coordinates, 69°03’N, 20°50’E, might locate this site on established maps. But during the time I spent here, I found this northern location began to multiply and fluctuate as a concatenation of milieus, processes, and subjects. While the participants on the residency program were here as a group of artists, writers, and scientists engaged with developing experimental modes of fieldwork, we were also located in varying proximity to exurbanites and