New UA Press release: 'Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground: An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska'

The University of Alaska Press has released "Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground: An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska" by Elizabeth Marino.

"Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground" is an ethnographic account of the impacts of climate change in Shishmaref, Alaska. In this small Iñupiaq community, flooding and erosion are forcing community members to consider relocation as the only possible solution for long-term safety. However, a tangled web of policy obstacles, lack of funding and organizational challenges leaves the community without a clear way forward, creating serious questions of how to maintain cultural identity under the new climate regime.

For more information about this title and many others, please visit alaska.edu/uapress or call (800) 621-2736.

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