Against decline? The geographies and temporalities of the Arctic cryosphere

Over centuries, Western desires of Arctic space have consistently worked to render icy locales the North legible an audience further south. In non-Indigenous reportage, has been framed through a dominating lens that narrates it as ‘natural region’ or cryosphere where elemental qualities such cold, ice, snow and darkness reign supreme. The is often overwhelmingly dissected demarcated not by Indigenous historical ongoing claims space, but instead documented presence particular biota they correlate lines latitude and/or cold temporalities (e.g., ‘frozen for most year’). New descriptors ‘Atlantification’ are latest in line tropes being used account audit said be undergoing fundamental ‘declinist’ state-change. Judged no longer satisfactorily described circumpolar region, rigidly defined coldness north Circle, Arctic's physical environmental now cultivated ‘new Arctic’. Ice everyday working spiritual lives northern communities. We argue there timely opportunities ice humanities scholars mindful enduring inhumanities sense erasing/dispossessing those who inhabit worlds co-relationalities with multi-species relationships, multiple spatialities, seasonalities do pivot around Euro-American/global framings time geopolitical worlding extractive capitalism.