ABSTRACT

The essay maps and reflects on some dimensions of human–mosquito interaction in the context of the Arctic and inspired by fieldwork in Finnish Lapland. Rather than developing any particular argument, we seek to document this thinking mosquito as a collection of glimpses, fragments and musings. This impressionistic approach was inspired by conversations among the authors and with environmental humanities scholarship about the roles non-humans play in human worlds, and about how one might engage with mosquitos in thinking about scientific fieldwork, about everyday life in various environments, and about the Arctic more generally. The essay does not provide answers but rather questions, hoping as it does to offer some insights into the complexity of issues that connect mosquito worlds to human worlds. As a mirror to these reflections, we dialogue with excerpts from our own creative written thoughts from the field and from the diaries of German soldiers based in Lapland during the Second World War.

摘要

这篇文章描绘并反思了北极背景下人类与蚊子互动的某些方面，并受到芬兰拉普兰实地考察的启发。我们没有提出任何特定的论点，而是试图将这种会思考的蚊子记录为瞥见、片段和沉思的集合。这种印象派方法的灵感来自作者之间的对话以及环境人文奖学金关于非人类在人类世界中扮演的角色，以及人们如何与蚊子一起思考科学田野工作、各种环境中的日常生活以及北极更普遍。这篇文章不提供答案，而是提供问题，希望对将蚊子世界与人类世界联系起来的问题的复杂性提供一些见解。作为这些反射的镜子，