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Kivalina is a coastal Iñupiat village of 400 people in Northwest Alaska. For generations Kivalina has been planning to relocate to meet “basic needs” for clean water, sanitation, and adequate space for housing, to reinhabit traditional lands and relocate planning power in the village, and to address the impacts of global climate change that increasingly threaten the village’s barrier island location. Re-Locate is a collective of immersive ethnographic artists and transdisciplinary partners co-creating a village-based territorial planning process with individuals, families, and institutions in Kivalina that makes visible and brings action to their strategies and demands for relocation and for a world where particular subjectivities and cultural practices can endure and flourish.
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