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This may ultimately impede the development of different aspects of civic participation by northern citizens with climate change policy opportunities. It is argued that such definitions heighten the sense of risk implicit in climate change impacts. Definitions of ecosystem resilience, while providing a framework for comparing disparate cultural and ecological contexts, are predicated on avoiding systemic collapse.

These narratives envisage Arctic citizenship within very narrow parameters which have largely masked the voices of northern citizens. Dominant climate change narratives about the Arctic emphasise the power of global climate systems to threaten northern communities by situating them as being intrinsically ‘at risk’. The latter, like development narratives, are often used to license the intervention of experts in debates about resource management and conservation. Sheila Watt-Cloutier passionately argues that climate change is a human rights issue and one to which all of us on the planet are inextricably linked. The Right to Be Cold is the culmina­tion of Watt-Cloutier’s regional, national, and international work over the last twenty-five years, weaving historical traumas and current issues such as climate change, leadership, and sustainability in the Arctic into her personal story to give a coherent and holistic voice to an important subject.This paper argues that indigenous peoples' responses to climate change are better understood in relation to emerging notions of citizenship than to climate change crisis narratives. The Right to Be Cold explores the parallels between safeguarding the Arctic and the survival of Inuit culture-and ultimately the world-in the face of past, present, and future environmental degradation. The Right to Be Cold is a human story of resilience, commitment, and survival told from the unique vantage point of an Inuk woman who, in spite of many obstacles, rose from humble beginnings in the Arctic community of Kuujjuaq, Quebec-where she was raised by a single parent and grandmother and travelled by dog team in a traditional, ice-based Inuit hunting culture-to become one of the most influential and decorated environmental, cultural, and human rights advocates in the world.