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

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 planets 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.

Introduction: Arctic Environmental Modernities from the Age of Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene by Lill-Ann K?rber, Scott MacKenzie, and Anna Westerst?hl?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?mi Nordl?ndda 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?rber.-?9. The Negative Space in the National Imagination: Russia and the Arcló«