Arctic Environmental Modernities: From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene by Körber, Lill-Ann

Arctic Environmental Modernities: From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783319818214)

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Arctic Environmental Modernities: From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene by Körber, Lill-Ann

Arctic Environmental Modernities: From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene

$29.99
Arctic Environmental Modernities: From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene by Körber, Lill-Ann

Arctic Environmental Modernities: From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene

$29.99
Format: Paperback
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Introduction: Arctic Environmental Modernities from the Age of Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene by Lill-Ann Kber, Scott MacKenzie, and Anna Westerst乕l 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 Synn ve 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 S疥i Nordl疣dda 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 Kber.- 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 Slin.


Author: Lill-Ann Kber
ISBN-10: 331981821X
ISBN-13: 9783319818214
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2018
Pages: 273
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.61d
By Lill-Ann Kber
By Lill-Ann Kber
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Lill-Ann Kber 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 Westerst乕l 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.



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