Overview
- Groundbreaking examination of the North
- Provides accessible explanations for the powerplays in the Arctic
- Summarizes the conflicted status of Arctic modernities over the centuries
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History (PSWEH)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book offers a diverse and groundbreaking account of the intersections between modernities and environments in the circumpolar global North, foregrounding the Arctic as a critical space of modernity, where the past, present, and future of the planet’s environmental and political systems are projected and imagined. Investigating the Arctic region as a privileged site of modernity, this book articulates the globally significant, but often overlooked, junctures between environmentalism and sustainability, indigenous epistemologies and scientific rhetoric, and decolonization strategies and governmentality. With international expertise made easily accessible, readers can observe and understand the rise and conflicted status of Arctic modernities, from the nineteenth century polar explorer era to the present day of anthropogenic climate change.
Reviews
“Representing a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, the essays in Arctic Environmental Modernities come together to make a powerful argument for re-thinking common assumptions about the far north. This collection demonstrates how modern Arctic environments have been constructed in multiple ways through overlapping and often contested cultural, political and economic agendas. The book offers valuable new perspectives to anyone interested in the contemporary Arctic, and makes a significant contribution to the field of Arctic studies.” (Adrian Howkins, author of The Polar Regions: An Environmental History)
“The editors are to be congratulated for putting together a splendid collection of essays tackling Arctic environmental modernities and doing so at a time when global interest in the Arctic is unprecedented. Now, increasingly, indigenous and northern communities in particular have to deal with the messy consequences of humankind becoming a geological agent in its own right. The Arctic is in crisis but this book also offers us some hopeful pointers for its future.” (Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway University of London, UK and co-author of “The Scramble for the Poles” (2016))
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lill-Ann Körber is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Associate Professor II of Modern Scandinavian Literature at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her publications include the co-edited The Postcolonial North Atlantic: Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands (2014).
Scott MacKenzie teaches in the Department of Film and Media, Queen’s University, Canada. His many books include Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic (co-ed., 2015) and Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures (ed. 2014).
Anna Westerståhl Stenport is Professor and Chair of the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. She co-edited Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic (2015) and has published extensively on Arctic, Nordic, and European culture, cinema, and literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Arctic Environmental Modernities
Book Subtitle: From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene
Editors: Lill-Ann Körber, Scott MacKenzie, Anna Westerståhl Stenport
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39116-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39115-1Published: 20 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81821-4Published: 13 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39116-8Published: 12 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2730-9746
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 273
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Science, Social History, Environment, general