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Unfreezing the Arctic

Author : Andrew Stuhl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022641664X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Unfreezing the Arctic written by Andrew Stuhl and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich portrait of Arctic science, informed by ethnographic fieldwork and Inuit perspective, speaks to the interplay of science and international politics. It looks at episodes of exploration, colonial control, exchanges with indigenous populations, and the process of knowledge gathering on the Arctic s natural and living resources. Andrew Stuhl s compelling narrative weaves together distinct episodes into a backstory for what some have wrongly called the unprecedented transformations in the circumpolar basin today. "Unfreezing the Arctic" is among the first books to undertake a sustained examination of scientific activity in the Arctic across the long twentieth century, and it will be warmly welcomed by anyone interested in the commingled political, economic, and social histories of transboundary regions the world over."

Unfreezing the Arctic

Author : Andrew Stuhl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022641678X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Unfreezing the Arctic written by Andrew Stuhl and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of a region transformed—and threatened—offers “a timely historical reflection on the important social role of science and scientists.”—Historical Geography In recent years, environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a leading indicator of climate change. While climate change has unleashed profound transformations in the region, many commentators mislabel them as unprecedented. In reality, the landscapes of the North American Arctic—as well as relations among scientists, Inuit, and federal governments— are products of the region’s colonial past. And even as policy analysts, activists, and scholars clamor about the future of our world’s northern rim, few truly understand its past. In Unfreezing the Arctic, Andrew Stuhl brings a fresh perspective to this defining challenge of our time. Stuhl weaves together a wealth of episodes into a transnational history of the North American Arctic, providing a richer understanding of its social and environmental transformation. Drawing on historical records and extensive ethnographic fieldwork, as well as time spent living in the Northwest Territories, he examines the long-running interplay of scientific exploration, colonial control, the experiences of Inuit residents, and multinational investments in natural resources. With a comprehensive look at a century of scientific activity, he covers the political, economic, environmental, and social history of this transboundary region. “A worthy addition to the recent wave of work on northern history…Bridging the histories of colonialism, resource management, military activity, and Indigenous self-determination, Stuhl focuses on Alaska and northwest Canada, including the Beaufort Sea, Mackenzie Delta, and surrounding region.”—Canadian Journal of History The author intends to donate all royalties from this book to the Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA) and East Three School's On the Land Program.

New Arctic Cinemas

Author : Scott MacKenzie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520390547
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book New Arctic Cinemas written by Scott MacKenzie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, the Arctic was visualized as an unchanging, stable, and rigidly alien landscape, existing outside twenty-first-century globalization. It is now impossible to ignore the ways the climate crisis, expanding resource extraction, and Indigenous political mobilization in the circumpolar North are constituent parts of the global present. New Arctic Cinemas presents an original, comparative, and interventionist historiography of film and media in twenty-first-century Scandinavia, Greenland, Russia, Canada, and the United States to situate Arctic media in the place it rightfully deserves to occupy: as central to global environmental concerns and Indigenous media sovereignty and self-determination movements. The works of contemporary Arctic filmmakers, from Zacharias Kunuk and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril to Amanda Kernell and Inuk Silis Høegh, reach worldwide audiences. In examining the reach and influence of these artists and their work, Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport reveal a global media system of intertwined production contexts, circulation opportunities, and imaginaries--all centering the Arctic North.

Arctic governance

Author : Elana Wilson Rowe
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526121751
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Arctic governance written by Elana Wilson Rowe and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The volume explores a question that sheds light on the contested, but largely cooperative, nature of Arctic governance in the post-Cold War period: How does power matter –and how has it mattered – in shaping cross-border cooperation and diplomacy in the Arctic? The role of power in global governance cooperation has been explored in international relations and political geography literature, yet largely overlooked in an Arctic context. Through carefully selected case studies – from Russia’s role in the Arctic Council to the diplomacy of indigenous peoples’ organizations – this book seeks to shed light on how power performances are enacted to constantly shore up Arctic cooperation in key ways. The conceptually-driven nature of the inquiry makes the book appropriate reading for courses in international relations and political geography, while the carefully selected case studies lend themselves to courses on Arctic politics.

Competing Arctic Futures

Author : Nina Wormbs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319916173
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Competing Arctic Futures written by Nina Wormbs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores how narratives about the future of the Arctic have been produced historically up until the present day. The contemporary deterministic and monolithic narrative is shown to be only one of several possible ways forward. This book problematizes the dominant prediction that there will be increased shipping and resource extraction as the ice melts and shows how this seemingly inevitable future has consequences for the action that can be taken in the present. This collection looks to historical projections about the future of the Arctic, evaluating why some voices have been heard and championed, while others remain marginalised. It questions how these historical perspectives have shaped resource allocation and governance structures to understand the forces behind change in the Arctic region. Considering the history of individuals and institutions, their political and economic networks and their perceived power, the essays in this collection offer new perspectives on how the future of the Arctic has been produced and communicated.

The Politics of Arctic Resources

Author : E. Carina H. Keskitalo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351705334
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Arctic Resources written by E. Carina H. Keskitalo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic has often been seen as a natural area, or even a “wilderness”, where mainly indigenous and subsistence activities have been prominent. Contrary to this, the present volume highlights the very long historical development of resource use systems in northern Europe, across multiple actors and multiple levels, and including varying population groups. The book takes a past-present-future perspective that illustrates the paths to institutional emergence, change or persistence over time. It also illustrates how institutions may themselves drive changes, through a focus on resource use cases in northern Europe. This volume demonstrates that understanding “northern” issues is less about understanding sets of geophysical, climatological or environmental conditions than about understanding social and institutional structures. Understanding these trajectories into the future is seen as a key way of understanding what responses to future change may be likely and what the institutions are that will shape, limit or enable our responses to climate change. This book will be of great use to scholars and graduates in the fields of Arctic and northern-region politics, and to researchers of resource use and climate change with a focus on vulnerability, social vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation.

Arctic Sustainability Research

Author : Andrey N. Petrov
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351614630
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Arctic Sustainability Research written by Andrey N. Petrov and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic is one of the world’s regions most affected by cultural, socio-economic, environmental, and climatic changes. Over the last two decades, scholars, policymakers, extractive industries, governments, intergovernmental forums, and non-governmental organizations have turned their attention to the Arctic, its peoples, resources, and to the challenges and benefits of impending transformations. Arctic sustainability is an issue of increasing concern as well as the resilience and adaptation of Arctic societies to changing conditions. This book offers key insights into the history, current state of knowledge and the future of sustainability, and sustainable development research in the Arctic. Written by an international, interdisciplinary team of experts, it presents a comprehensive progress report on Arctic sustainability research. It identifies key knowledge gaps and provides salient recommendations for prioritizing research in the next decade. Arctic Sustainability Research will appeal to researchers, academics, and policymakers interested in sustainability science and the practices of sustainable development, as well as those working in polar studies, climate change, political geography, and the history of science.

Arctic Marine Resource Governance and Development

Author : Niels Vestergaard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319673653
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Arctic Marine Resource Governance and Development written by Niels Vestergaard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on presentations from the Conference ‘Arctic Marine Resource Governance’ held in Reykjavik Iceland in October 2015. The book is divided into four main themes: 1. Global management and institutions for Arctic marine resources 2. Resource stewards and users: local and indigenous co-management 3. Governance gaps in Arctic marine resource management and 4. Multi-scale, ecosystem-based, Arctic marine resource management’. The ecosystem changes underway in the Arctic region are expected to have significant impacts on living resources in both the short and long run, and current actions and policies adopted over such resource governance will have serious and ultimately irreversible consequences in the near and long terms.

Britain and the Arctic

Author : Duncan Depledge
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319692933
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Britain and the Arctic written by Duncan Depledge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British interest in the Arctic has returned to heights not seen since the end of the Cold War; concerns about climate change, resources, trade, and national security are all impacted by profound environmental and geopolitical changes happening in the Arctic. Duncan Depledge investigates the increasing geopolitical significance of the Arctic and explores why it took until now for Britain – once an ‘Arctic state’ itself – to notice how close it is to these changes, what its contemporary interests in the region are, and whether the British government’s response in the arenas of science, defence, and commerce is enough. This book will be of interest to both academics and practitioners seeking to understand contemporary British interest and activity in the Arctic.

Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities

Author : Sverker Sörlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009100238
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities written by Sverker Sörlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview of the 'new extractivist paradigm' which could bring viable futures for Arctic communities, including renewable energies, tourism, and science.

Arctic Environmental Modernities

Author : Lill-Ann Körber
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331939116X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Arctic Environmental Modernities written by Lill-Ann Körber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-12 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities

Author : Spencer Acadia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429997914
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities written by Spencer Acadia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities serves as a key interdisciplinary title that links the social sciences and humanities with current issues, trends, and projects in library, archival, and information sciences within shared Arctic frameworks and geographies. Including contributions from professionals and academics working across and on the Arctic, the book presents recent research, theoretical inquiry, and applied professional endeavours at academic and public libraries, as well as archives, museums, government institutions, and other organisations. Focusing on efforts that further Arctic knowledge and research, papers present local, regional, and institutional case studies to conceptually and empirically describe real-life research in which the authors are engaged. Topics covered include the complexities of developing and managing multilingual resources; working in geographically isolated areas; curating combinations of local, regional, national, and international content collections; and understanding historical and contemporary colonial-industrial influences in indigenous knowledge. Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities will be essential reading for academics, researchers, and students working the fields of library, archival, and information or data science, as well as those working in the humanities and social sciences more generally. It should also be of great interest to librarians, archivists, curators, and information or data professionals around the globe.

Ephemeral Coast: Visualizing Coastal Climate Change

Author : Celina Jeffery
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648894348
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Ephemeral Coast: Visualizing Coastal Climate Change written by Celina Jeffery and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ephemeral Coast - Visualizing Coastal Climate Change" considers the ways that art can offer a means through which to discover, analyze, re-imagine and re-frame emotive discourses about the ecological and cultural transformations of the coastline. This edited anthology takes ephemerality as its central conceptual and methodological framework and presents a series of essays that create interconnections between environmental and social considerations of the coast, a succession of embodied creative practices, and shifting regional geographic identities. The book presents a series of specific case studies of artistic practices and strategies that seek to capture the rewriting of cartographic maps that are being reshaped by rising seas, coastal flooding and catastrophic weather. The essays in this edited volume engender creative strategies for understanding new and uncertain coastal ecologies and the loss, expulsion or destruction of their associated cultures, habitats, species and ecosystems. The anthology also looks at the historical, mnemonic and contemporary transitional conditions of ‘conflicted’ coastal spaces in which empire, modernity and globalization press on coastal erosion and incursions, proliferate it with trivial plastics, pollution and disposable attitudes, and bring vulnerable communities into uncertain futures."

The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions

Author : Adrian Howkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108627951
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions written by Adrian Howkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions is a landmark collection drawing together the history of the Arctic and Antarctica from the earliest times to the present. Structured as a series of thematic chapters, an international team of scholars offer a range of perspectives from environmental history, the history of science and exploration, cultural history, and the more traditional approaches of political, social, economic, and imperial history. The volume considers the centrality of Indigenous experience and the urgent need to build action in the present on a thorough understanding of the past. Using historical research based on methods ranging from archives and print culture to archaeology and oral histories, these essays provide fresh analyses of the discovery of Antarctica, the disappearance of Sir John Franklin, the fate of the Norse colony in Greenland, the origins of the Antarctic Treaty, and much more. This is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of our planet.

The World's Oceans

Author : Rainer F. Buschmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The World's Oceans written by Rainer F. Buschmann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single-volume resource explores the five major oceans of the world, addressing current issues such as sea rise and climate change and explaining the significance of the oceans from historical, geographic, and cultural perspectives. The World's Oceans: Geography, History, and Environment is a one-stop resource that describes in-depth the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans and identifies their importance, today and throughout history. Essays address the subject areas of oceans and seas in world culture, fishing and shipping industries through history, ocean exploration, and climate change and oceans. The book also presents dozens of entries covering a breadth of topics on human culture, the environment, history, and current issues as they relate to the oceans and ocean life. Sample entries provide detailed information on topics such as the Bermuda Triangle, Coral Reefs, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Ice Melt, Myths and Legends, Piracy, and Whaling. Contributions to the work come from top researchers in the fields of history and maritime studies, including Paul D'Arcy, John Gillis, Tom Hoogervorst, Michael North, and Lincoln Paine. The volume highlights the numerous ways in which Earth's oceans have influenced culture and society, from the earliest seafaring civilizations to the future of the planet.

Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources

Author : Andreas Goldthau
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783475633
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources written by Andreas Goldthau and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the latest research from leading scholars on the international political economy of energy and resources. Highlighting the important conceptual and empirical themes, the chapters study all levels of governance, from global to local, and explore the wide range of issues emerging in a changing political and economic environment.

Changing Actors in International Law

Author : Karen N. Scott
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004424156
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Changing Actors in International Law written by Karen N. Scott and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Actors in International Law explores actors other than the ‘state’ in international law focusing on under-researched actors (quasi-states, trans-government networks, Indigenous Peoples, self-determination claimant groups) as well the less well studied aspects of otherwise well-researched actors (individuals, corporations, NGOs, armed organised groups).