Arctic Environmental Modernities
From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene
Arctic Environmental Modernities
From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene
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Description
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.
“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)
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 Stenport is 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.