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Arctic Environmental Modernities

From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene

Herausgegeben: Körber, Lill-Ann; Mackenzie, Scott; Westerståhl Stenport, Anna

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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 Stenportis 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.  

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-81821-4
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9783319818214
• ISBN-10: 331981821X
• Artikelnr.: 53571459

Rezensionen

"The essays challenge a conventional view of the Arctic that often relies on 'colonial, gendered, capitalist, and racialized power structures ...,' as well as one driven by geopolitics and 'the deductive model of the natural sciences.' Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; faculty and professionals." (R. A. Delgado Jr., Choice, Vol. 55 (1), September, 2017)