Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands

Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands
ISBN-10
022641664X
ISBN-13
9780226416649
Category
History
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2016-11-03
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Andrew Stuhl

Description

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."

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