Arctic Environmental Modernities

Arctic Environmental Modernities

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

MacKenzie, Scott; Westerstahl Stenport, Anna; Koerber, Lill-Ann

Springer International Publishing AG

02/2017

273

Dura

Inglês

9783319391151

15 a 20 dias

4804


ebook

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Introduction: Arctic Environmental Modernities from the Age of Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene by Lill-Ann Koerber, Scott MacKenzie, and Anna Westerstahl Stenport.- 1. The Disappearing Arctic?: Scientific Narrative, Environmental Crisis, and the Ghosts of Colonial History by Andrew Stuhl.- 2. Petro-Images of the Arctic and Statoil's Visual Imaginary by Synnove Marie Vik.- 3. Urbanity Without Cities: Arctic Modernization in Northern Scandinavia by Torill Nyseth.- 4. Cod Society: The Technopolitics of Modern Greenland and the Creation of an Arctic Welfare State by Kristian Hvitfeldt Nielsen.- 5. Space and Literary History in Arctic Norway: Knut Hamsun in Lule Sami Nordlandda by Kikki Jernsletten and Troy Storfjell.- 6. The Polar Hero's Progress: Fridtjof Nansen, Spirituality, and Environmental History by Mark Safstrom.- 7. Heritage, Conservation, and the Geopolitics of Svalbard by Dag Avango and Peder Roberts.- 8. Toxic Blubber and Seal Skin Bikinis, Or: How Green is Greenland?Ecology in Contemporary Film and Art by Lill-Ann Koerber.- 9. The Negative Space in the National Imagination: Russia and the Arctic by Lilya Kaganovsky.- 10. Invisible Landscapes: Extreme Oil and the Arctic in Experimental Film and Activist Art Practices by Lisa E. Bloom.- 11. Icelandic Futures: Arctic Dreams and Geographies of Crisis by Anne-Sofie Nielsen Gremaud.- 12. Feminist and Environmentalist Public Governance in the Arctic by Eva-Maria Svensson.- 13.The Greenlandic Reconciliation Commission: Ethnonationalism, Arctic Resources, and Post-Colonial Identity by Kirsten Thisted.- 14. Arctic Futures and Global Assessment Policy by Nina Wormbs and Sverker Soerlin.
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Environmental History;World History;Environmental Science;Climate change;Greenland