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Svalbard Imaginaries
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Author : Mathias Albert
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-12-20
Svalbard Imaginaries written by Mathias Albert and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-20 with Political Science categories.
By drawing on a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, this book illustrates the immense complexities of Svalbard as a place, point of reference, or social concept. It portrays the multiple, situated perspectives that characterize understandings and imaginings of Svalbard, and brings together contributions from academic fields that rarely interact with each other. Svalbard Imaginaries contributes to a number of research contexts, ranging from a broadly conceived, multi-disciplinary field of ‘Arctic Studies’ to more disciplinary specific debates on how places are reworked at the interstices of various global flows and vice versa. It assembles contributions on imaginaries that cover a wide array of issues, including—but not limited to—Svalbard as a geopolitical site, a landscape, an image, a (mining) heritage assemblage, a tourist destination, a wilderness, a built environment, a site of knowledge production, a site of artistic engagement, and projections of the future. It deliberately assembles analyses that refer to a variety of timescales and covers representations of the past, the present, and possible futures of Svalbard.
Postcolonial Perspectives On The European High North
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Author : Graham Huggan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-26
Postcolonial Perspectives On The European High North written by Graham Huggan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-26 with Social Science categories.
This book approaches the Arctic from a postcolonial perspective, taking into account both its historical status as a colonised region and new, economically driven forms of colonialism. One catchphrase currently being used to describe these new colonialisms is 'the scramble for the Arctic'. This cross-disciplinary study, featuring contributions from an international team of experts in the field, offers a set of broadly postcolonial perspectives on the European Arctic, which is taken here as ranging from Greenland and Iceland in the North Atlantic to the upper regions of Norway and Sweden in the European High North. While the contributors acknowledge the renewed scramble for resources that characterises the region, it also argues the need to 'unscramble' the Arctic, wresting it away from its persistent status as a fixed object of western control and knowledge. Instead, the book encourages a reassertion of micro-histories of Arctic space and territory that complicate western grand narratives of technological progress, politico-economic development, and ecological 'state change'. It will be of interest to scholars of Arctic Studies across all disciplines.
Anthropocene Ecologies
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Author : Mary Mostafanezhad
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-06-09
Anthropocene Ecologies written by Mary Mostafanezhad and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-09 with Business & Economics categories.
Anthropocene Ecologies brings political ecology and tourism studies to bear on the Anthropocene. Through a collective examination of political ecologies of the Anthropocene by leading scholars in anthropology, geography and tourism studies, the book addresses critical themes of gender, health, conservation, agriculture, climate change, disaster, coastal marine management and sustainability. Each chapter theoretically and empirically unravels entanglements of tourism, nature and imagination to expose the political-ecological drivers of the Anthropocene as a material and symbolic force and its deepening integration with tourism. Grounded in ethnographic and qualitative research, the volume is interdisciplinary in scope, yet linked in its shared focus on the political threat as well as the social potential of the Anthropocene and its imaginaries. This collection contributes to emerging scholarship on tourism, sustainability and global environmental change in the current geological epoch. Anthropocene Ecologies will be of great interest to political ecology focused scholars of tourism, socio-environmental change and the Anthropocene. The chapters were originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
New Arctic Cinemas
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Author : Anna Westerstahl Stenport
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-03-14
New Arctic Cinemas written by Anna Westerstahl Stenport and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-14 with Performing Arts categories.
For centuries, the Arctic was visualized as an unchanging, stable, and rigidly alien landscape, existing outside twenty-first-century globalization. It is now impossible to ignore the ways the climate crisis, expanding resource extraction, and Indigenous political mobilization in the circumpolar North are constituent parts of the global present. New Arctic Cinemas presents an original, comparative, and interventionist historiography of film and media in twenty-first-century Scandinavia, Greenland, Russia, Canada, and the United States to situate Arctic media in the place it rightfully deserves to occupy: as central to global environmental concerns and Indigenous media sovereignty and self-determination movements. The works of contemporary Arctic filmmakers, from Zacharias Kunuk and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril to Amanda Kernell and Inuk Silis Høegh, reach worldwide audiences. In examining the reach and influence of these artists and their work, Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport reveal a global media system of intertwined production contexts, circulation opportunities, and imaginaries—all centering the Arctic North.
Human And Societal Security In The Circumpolar Arctic
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Author : Kamrul Hossain
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-09-06
Human And Societal Security In The Circumpolar Arctic written by Kamrul Hossain and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with Law categories.
Human and Societal Security in the Circumpolar Arctic addresses the comprehensive understanding of security in the Arctic, and specific challenges of the Arctic population from the viewpoint of human security.
The Place Names Of Svalbard
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Author : Norsk Polarinstitutt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Place Names Of Svalbard written by Norsk Polarinstitutt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Names, Geographical categories.
The Last Imaginary Place
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Author : Robert McGhee
language : en
Publisher: Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005
The Last Imaginary Place written by Robert McGhee and has been published by Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
McGhee takes us to a thousand-year-old Tuniit campsite perfectly preserved in the Arctic cold, follows the entrepreneurial Inuit as they cross the Arctic in search of metal, and reveals the dangers that native people face today from industrial pollution and global warming."--BOOK JACKET.
Encyclopedia Of Imaginary And Mythical Places
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Author : Theresa Bane
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-03-18
Encyclopedia Of Imaginary And Mythical Places written by Theresa Bane and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-18 with Religion categories.
The heavens and hells of the world's religions and the "far, far away" legends cannot be seen or visited, but they remain an integral part of culture and history. This encyclopedia catalogs more than 800 imaginary and mythological lands from all over the world, including fairy realms, settings from Arthurian lore, and kingdoms found in fairy tales and political and philosophical works, including Sir Thomas More's Utopia and Plato's Atlantis. From al A'raf, the limbo of Islam, to Zulal, one of the many streams that run through Paradise, entries give the literary origin of each site, explain its cultural context, and describe its topical features, listing variations on names when applicable. Cross-referenced for ease of use, this compendium will prove useful to scholars, researchers or anyone wishing to tour the unseen landscapes of myth and legend.
Global Arctic
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Author : Matthias Finger
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-02-25
Global Arctic written by Matthias Finger and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-25 with Science categories.
The Arctic has become a global arena. This development can only be comprehensively understood from a transdisciplinary perspective encompassing ecological, cultural, societal, economic, industrial, geopolitical, and security considerations. This book offers thorough explanations of Arctic developments and challenges. Global warming is in large part the driving force behind the transformation of the Arctic by making access possible to the areas previously out of reach for mining and shipping. An all-year ice-free Arctic Ocean, a reality possible as soon as perhaps 2030, creates a new dynamic in the North. The retreating ice edge enables the exploitation of previously inaccessible resources such as hydrocarbon deposits and rare metals, as well as the shortest sea route from Asia to Europe. Consequently, the Northern Sea Route (NSR) promises faster and cheaper shipping. Russia, along side foreign investment, especially from China, is financing the needed infrastructure. A warming Arctic, however, also has negative impacts. The Arctic is home to fragile ecosystems that are already showing signs of deteriorating. The Arctic has seen unprecedented wildfires, which, together with the release of trapped methane from the disappearing permafrost, will, in turn, accelerate global warming. A warmer Arctic Ocean will also negatively impact fisheries. Couple this with other global changes, such as ocean acidification and modified ocean currents, and the global outlook is bleak. Additionally, the security situation in the Arctic is worsening. After the 2014 Ukraine crisis, the West imposed sanctions on the Russian Federation, which have revived the divisions of the Cold War. The reemergence of these postures is threatening the highly successful Barents Cooperation and other initiatives for peace in the circumpolar North. This book offers new insights and presents arguments for how to mitigate the challenges the Arctic is facing today.
Spitsbergen Svalbard
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Author : Rolf Stange
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Spitsbergen Svalbard written by Rolf Stange and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.