Invisibility, Colors, Snow: Arctic Biosemiotics and the Violence of Climate Change

Gitte du Plessis

doi:10.1177/0263276420976793

Invisibility, Colors, Snow: Arctic Biosemiotics and the Violence of Climate Change

Gitte du Plessis^*

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This article conceptualizes contemporary geopolitical violence in the Arctic through a semiotic register. Different living beings perceive different things, and these differences amount to different worlds, not merely different worldviews. Building on Eduardo Kohn’s reading of the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce, and theorists of biosemiotics and ecosemiotics, the article analyses how signs in and between living organisms and their environments are political matters of life and death. Via the themes of invisibility, colors, and snow, the article traces semiotic relations between different living beings and their Arctic ecologies to weave a semiotic understanding of contemporary geopolitical violence in the Arctic and the role of climate change therein. The article defines the violence of climate change as a violence of not being able to recognize oneself, and builds on Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s concept of multinaturalism to explain what it means that one world ruins other worlds.

Alkuperäiskieli	Englanti
Sivut	167-188
Julkaisu	Theory, Culture and Society
Vuosikerta	38
Numero	7-8
Varhainen verkossa julkaisun päivämäärä	2020
DOI - pysyväislinkit	https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420976793
Tila	Julkaistu - 2021
OKM-julkaisutyyppi	A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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For helpful feedback, I would like to thank Johanna Sitomaniemi-San, fellow panelists at the SLSAeu GREEN conference in Copenhagen in June 2018, participants at the TASER seminar at Tampere University in November 2019, as well as the referees and editors at TCS. Research for this article was funded by the Academy of Finland (grant no. 322254), and SPARCTIC / University of Oulu.

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Invisibility, Colors, Snow: Arctic Biosemiotics and the Violence of Climate Change

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