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
ISBN-10
331939116X
ISBN-13
9783319391168
Category
Science
Pages
273
Language
English
Published
2017-02-12
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Scott MacKenzie, Anna Westerståhl Stenport, Lill-Ann Körber

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. 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.

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