Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic

Editors: Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Johannes Riquet Publisher: Wesleyan University Press (2025) Grounded in the spatiality of Indigenous existence, Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic is an innovatively foundational book about experiences and conceptions of geography in the circumpolar world. The book centers Arctic writers and artists as creators of space and disseminators of geographical knowledge emerging from Indigenous epistemologies. It collects newly commissioned poems, short stories, and essays that are accompanied by responses in the form of visual art—including paintings, photographs, and mixed media artworks—as well as brief academic reflections. Containing multiple languages—from English and Russian to North Sámi, Kalaallisut, and Sakha—as well as translations, the book is grounded in dialogues and conversations between creative practitioners from across the circumpolar North. Among others, they include Alutiiq, Eyak, Gwich'in,