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Solastalgic Architecture: Post-Permafrost Futures and the Poetics of Collapse

Harriet Harriss

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H. Harriss, Funeral for an Ice Flow, Arctic Circle Residency, 2024. Photo: H. Harriss.
After Comfort: A User’s Guide
March 2026










Notes
1

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River
(New York: Ballantine, 1970), 197.

2

Sareen Ali et al., “Arctic Vulnerability: Examining Biosecurity Risks Amidst Climate Change,” in Emotional and Ecological Literacy for a More Sustainable Society, ed., Giuliana Panieri et al. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). 157–69.

3

Maria Polovtseva, “Blessing and a Curse: Melting Permafrost in the Russian Arctic,” The Arctic Institute–Center for Circumpolar Security Studies, November 3, 2020, .

4

Elina Helander-Renvall, “Animism, personhood and the nature of reality: Sami perspectives,” Polar Record 46, no. 1 (2010): 44-56.

5

Sheila Watt-Cloutier, The Right to be Cold: One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), 191.

6

Glenn Albrecht, “Solastalgia: A New Concept in Health and Identity,” PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature 3 (2005): 41–55.

7

Anu Soikkeli, “Human–environmental Relationships in the Arctic: Mapping and Analyzing Shishmaref,” Journal of Rural and Community Development 16, no. 2 (2021): 43–44.

8

Or rather the Capitalocene; capitalism-driven planetary destruction. See Jason W. Moore, “The Rise of Cheap Nature,” in Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism, ed. Jason W. Moore (Oakland: PM Press, 2016).

9

Rauna Kuokkanen, Restructuring Relations: Indigenous Self-Determination, Governance, and Gender (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).

10

Soikkeli, Anu. 2021. “Arctic Architecture: Adapting Built Form to a Changing North.” Arctic Design Lab Journal 12: 55–68.

11

Teresa Cotsirilos, “As Permafrost Thaws, Village Cemeteries Sink into Swamp,” Alaska Public Media, October 2, 2017, .

12

Katherine Landers and Dmitry Streletskiy, “(Un)frozen Foundations: A Study of Permafrost Construction Practices in Russia, Alaska, and Canada,” Ambio 52, no. 7 (2023):1170–83.

13

Glenn A. Albrecht, Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019), 42.

14

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013), 36-37.







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