The art of writing environmental myths in the Arctic: Resilience and meaning-making at the UArctic Congress.

Laiho, Michael (2026) The art of writing environmental myths in the Arctic: Resilience and meaning-making at the UArctic Congress. The NORPAK Review, 1 (1). pp. 79-83.

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Abstract

I had previously given a talk to the Arctic Circle Assembly on what the “death of the Arctic” could mean by exploring how important authorship is when considering who is writing and who is written about (Laiho, 2025). My UArctic Congress contribution, meanwhile, focused on alternative ways of understanding resilience in the context of EU Arctic policy-making, concluding that resilience can involve institutional biases and forms of decision-making malaise. This research note brings these strands together by considering the UArctic Congress itself as a space in which Arctic narratives are produced, negotiated, reproduced, and oftentimes contested.

Item Type:	Article
Publisher’s Statement:	The NORPAK Review is published by the Northern Research, Policy, and Arctic Knowledge Hub (NORPAK) and the Department of Sociology at Northern Arizona University. NORPAK and the Department of Sociology hold membership in the University of the Arctic (UArctic), an international network of universities, research institutes, and organizations engaged in northern and Arctic research and education.
Keywords:	Arctic governance, Resilience, Environmental narratives, Political geography, Literary geography
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
Department/Unit:	Journals > The NORPAK Review
Date Deposited:	02 Oct 2026 18:16
Last Modified:	02 Oct 2026 18:16
URI:	https://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/6376

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