Ice humanities : living, thinking, and working in a melting world /: living, thinking, and working in a melting world. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Klaus Dodds, Sverker Sörlin.
• Editors: Dodds, Klaus; Sörlin, Sverker
• Contents: Ice humanities: living, working, and thinking in a melting world – Sverker Sörlin and Klaus Dodds; ; Part I: Living with ice ; 1 Writing on sea ice: early modern Icelandic scholars – Astrid E. J. Ogilvie; 2 A moving element: ice, culture, and economy in northern and northwestern Russia – Alexei Kraikovski; 3 Ever higher: the mountain cryosphere – Dani Inkpen; 4 Glacier protection campaigns: what do they really save? – Mark Carey, Jordan Barton, and Sam Flanzer; 5 Ice futures: the extension of jurisdiction in the Anthropocene north – Bruce Erickson, Liam Kennedy-Slaney, and James Wilt; ; Part II: Working with ice ; 6 White spots on rivers of gold: imperial glaciers in Russian Central Asia – Christine Bichsel; 7 The many ways that water froze: a taxonomy of ice in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America – Jonathan Rees; 8 Drift, capture, break, and vanish: sea ice in the Soviet Museum of the Arctic in the 1930s – Julia Lajus and Ruth Maclennan; 9 Waiting and witnessing at Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica – Jessica O’Reilly; ; Part III: Thinking with ice ; 10 Imperial slippages: encountering and knowing ice in and beyond colonial India – Thomas Simpson; 11 Negotiating governable objects: glaciers in Argentina – Jasmin Höglund Hellgren; 12 Cryonarratives for warming times: icebergs as planetary travellers – Elizabeth Leane; 13 Frozen archives on the go: ice cores and the temporalization of Earth system science – Erik Isberg; ; Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 304.2; Ecology; Human ecology; Glacial erosion; Glaciology; Geopolitics; Marine ecology; Sea ice
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526157768; 9781526157782
• Related ISBNs: 9781526157775
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