People of the Lakes

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"Walking Threads, Threading Walk" : Weaving and Entangling Deleuze and Ingold with Threads

Acknowledgements I want to thank all the participants of the Walking Threads Event (this also includes the wind, the trees, the branches, by-passers, the thread, etcetera). I thank The Unfamiliar editors and reviewers. I want to particularly acknowledge Valeria Lembo whose questions and discussions formed the inspiration and encouragement to engage more intensively with Ingold and Deleuze. The article was made possible through the financial support of ERC Advanced Grant Arctic Domus. Any shortcomings are mine.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

"Walking Threads, Threading Walk": Weaving and Entangling Deleuze and Ingold with Threads

In this paper, I explore theoretical discussions that have emrged through the Walking Threads exercise, correspondences with Lembo, philosophical treatises by Deleuze and Guattari, and anthropological works by Ingold. The subsequent theoretical exploration has been an attempt in weaving together all these different correspondences by walking in the theoretical imaginations of Ingold and Deleuze. Walking Threads, I conclude, can be considered as an exercise or way of incorporating theory into practice

Introducing the Walking Threads Project

The following collections of essays and creative interventions of Paola Esposito, Ragnhild Freng Dale, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, and Brian Schultis are the result of individual attempts to recall, reflect, and make sense of an exercise called "Walking threads". It also expressed a commitment to allow experiences to grow within and between the authors in an exercise of attunement

'Hard Times are Coming' : Architectures of Cultural Revitalization

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Architectures of domestication : on emplacing human-animal relations in the North

Acknowledgements. This fieldwork and discussions which led to this article was sponsored by ERC Advanced Grant 295458 Arctic Domus and ESRC grant ES‐MO110548‐1 JPI Climate Humanor. We would like to thank Rob Losey, Bente Sundsvold, and Konstantin Klokov for their comments on the manuscript. We would also like to thank that particularly engaging and constructive comments from three anonymous reviewers.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Sharing a Voice : Early-Career Scholars and the Arctic

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The Ordered Extension of Pseudopodia by Amoeboid Cells in the Absence of External Cues

Eukaryotic cells extend pseudopodia for movement. In the absence of external cues, cells move in random directions, but with a strong element of persistence that keeps them moving in the same direction Persistence allows cells to disperse over larger areas and is instrumental to enter new environments where spatial cues can lead the cell. Here we explore cell movement by analyzing the direction, size and timing of ∼2000 pseudopodia that are extended by Dictyostelium cells. The results show that pseudpopod are extended perpendicular to the surface curvature at the place where they emerge. The location of new pseudopods is not random but highly ordered. Two types of pseudopodia may be formed: frequent splitting of an existing pseudopod, or the occasional extension of a de novo pseudopod at regions devoid of recent pseudopod activity. Split-pseudopodia are extended at ∼60 degrees relative to the previous pseudopod, mostly as alternating Right/Left/Right steps leading to relatively straight zigzag runs. De novo pseudopodia are extended in nearly random directions thereby interrupting the zigzag runs. Persistence of cell movement is based on the ratio of split versus de novo pseudopodia. We identify PLA2 and cGMP signaling pathways that modulate this ratio of splitting and de novo pseudopodia, and thereby regulate the dispersal of cells. The observed ordered extension of pseudopodia in the absence of external cues provides a fundamental insight into the coordinated movement of cells, and might form the basis for movement that is directed by internal or external cues

Following the Veins of the Earth:Reading Resource Extraction in Circumpolar North

The Peel River Watershed in the Canadian Circumpolar North has become the arena of contentious resource initiatives and land use planning. Allegedly hosting one-third of North America's iron-ore, amongst other mineral deposits, and considered to be a world renowned wilderness, the Peel River Watershed - the traditional land of the Teetl'it Gwich' in - is of great interest and importance to a wide variety of stakeholders. The land use planning, thus, is politically sensitive and challenging. Building on extensive fieldwork with Teetl'it Gwich'in, this paper will place these initiatives in historical context and argues for a closer understanding of the relationship between poetics, well-being, memory, and land. More specifically, the paper argues for a more thorough attention towards the different ways of reading life by respectively indigenous peoples, mining industries, environmentalists, and others