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Critical norths : space, nature, theory
Title
Critical norths : space, nature, theory / Sarah Jaquette Ray, Kevin Maier, editors.
ISBN
9781602233195
1602233195
Publication
Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press, [2017]
Physical Description
viii, 336 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"For millennia, "the North" has held a powerful sway in Western culture. Long seen through contradictions--empty of life yet full of promise, populated by indigenous communities yet ripe for conquest, pristine yet marked by a long human history--it has moved to the foreground of contemporary life as the most dramatic stage for the reality of climate change. This book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to ask key questions about the North and how we've conceived it--and how conceiving of it in those terms has caused us to fail the region's human and nonhuman life. Engaging questions of space, place, indigeneity, identity, nature, the environment, justice, narrative, history, and more, it offers a crucial starting point for an essential rethinking of both the idea and the reality of the North"-- Provided by publisher.
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Online version: Critical norths. Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press, 2017
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 16, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Approaching Critical Northern Issues Critically / Sarah Jaquette Ray and Kevin Maier
Whose Arctic? Who Cares? : Place, Responsibility, and Elegiac Purpose in the Eskimo Curlew Extinction Narrative / Elspeth Tulloch
Raven's World : Eco-elegy and Beyond in a Changing North / Will Elliott
"The Bear Who Began It" and the Metaphorics of Climate Change / Allison Athens
Indigeneity and Ecology in I'upiat and Faroese Whaling / Russell Fielding
Saving Polar Bears and Other Objects / Kurtis Boyer
Bare Life and Bear Love : Masculinity, Capital and Arctic Animals in the Nineteenth-Century North / John Miller
Northern Relations : Colonial Whaling, Climate Change, and the Inception of a Collective Identity in Northern Alaska and the Northern Atlantic / Chie Sakakibara
Landscapes on Hold : The Norwegian and Russian Barents Sea Coast in the New North / Peter Hemmersen and Janike Kampevold
Knowing Land, Quantifying Nature : Assessing Environmental Impacts in the Sahtu Region, Northwest Territories / Carly Dokis
Writing in the Anthropocene from the Global North to the Global South : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Richard Power's The Echo Maker / Kyndra Turner
Surveillance and the Self : Two Sami Filmmakers Explore Indigenous and Personal Sovereignty Crossing Sami Borderlands / Cheryl Fish
Arctic Exposure : Nature, Race, and Regional Representation in Hollywood Film / Susan Kollin
Understanding Landscape Change Using Oral Histories and Tlingit Place Names / Dan Monteith
Prospecting for Buried Narratives in Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve / Margot Higgins.
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