Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk

How accurate and valid is the conception of the Arctic as an empty and pristine white space? One of the most vibrant Indigenous Arctic voices of today, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, addresses this (mis)conception in her autobiography The Right to Be Cold. The memoir documents more than thirty years of her struggle as an environmental activist. Her latest efforts are directed towards combating global warming and focus on showing the human face of climate change including the potential loss of the Inuit way of life which, as the very title of her memoir suggests, relies on “the right to be cold”. While the underlying message of Watt-Cloutier’s ecobiography is that “cultures are medicine, and [...] Indigenous wisdom is the medicine the world seeks in addressing [the] issues of sustainability”, it transpires that the key to accessing Indigenous knowledge is its language.

Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk, Ph.D., is an assistant at the University of Białystok, Poland. Her publications oscillate around the literary representations of motherhood and literary geography in the North American context. She is an author of several articles and book chapters. She has also co-edited three volumes of collected essays The Fantastic and Realism (2019), Jews of Eastern Poland: Between Odessa and Vilnius (2019) and recently published Inclusion & Exclusion in/au Canada. In 2015, she was awarded a scholarship from the Corbridge Trust in Cambridge. In 2022, she was a Visiting Fellow at The Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University, Toronto.

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