Arctic environmental modernities : from the age of polar exploration to the era of the anthropocene /: from the age of polar exploration to the era of the anthropocene. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lill-Ann Körber, Scott MacKenzie, Anna Westerstähl Stenport, editors.
• Editors: Körber, Lill-Ann; MacKenzie, Scott; Stenport, Anna Westerståhl
• Contents: Introduction: Arctic Environmental Modernities from the Age of Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene by Lill-Ann Körber, Scott MacKenzie, and Anna Westerståhl 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 Synnøve 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 Sámi Nordlándda 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 Körber -- 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 Sörlin. .
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 919.8; History; TRAVEL / Australia & Oceania; History -- Social History; Science -- Environmental Science; Social & cultural history; The environment; Social history; Environmental sciences; Science -- History; History of science; Arctic regions -- Environmental aspects; Arctic Regions; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319391168
• Related ISBNs: 331939116X; 9783319391151; 3319391151
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 23, 2017).
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