Competing Arctic Futures Historical and Contemporary Perspectives /

This edited collection explores how narratives about the future of the Arctic have been produced historically up until the present day. The contemporary deterministic and monolithic narrative is shown to be only one of several possible ways forward. This book problematizes the dominant prediction th...

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Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Edice:Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Témata:
History.
Environmental policy.
History, Modern.
Polar regions.
Historical geography.
ISBN:9783319916170
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Obsah:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction Back to the Futures of an Uncertain Arctic; Nina Wormbs
  • Chapter 2 Constructing Arctic Energy Resources: The Case of the Canadian North, 1921-1980; Paul Warde
  • Chapter 3 Extracting the Future in Svalbard; Dag Avango
  • Chapter 4 "Red herring": The Unpredictable Soviet Fish and Soviet Power in the 1930s; Julia Lajus
  • Chapter 5 A Reindeer Herding people? Political Visions of Sami Futures; Patrik Lantto
  • Chapter 6 Creating a Safe Operating Space for Business: The Changing Role of Arctic Governance; Annika E. Nilsson
  • Chapter 7 Voicing Bipolar Futures: The Antarctic Treaty System and Arctic Governance in Historical Perspective; Lize-Marié van der Watt and Peder Roberts
  • Chapter 8 Political regime influences in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region; Alexander Gnatenko and Andrian Vlakhov
  • Chapter 9 The Telecoupled Arctic: Assessing Stakeholder Narratives of Non-Arctic States; Eric Paglia
  • Chapter 10 Arctic Modernism: New Urbanisation Models for the Soviet Far North in the 1960s; Ekaterina Kalemeneva
  • Chapter 11 Conclusion Anthropocene Arctic: Reductionist Imaginaries of a "New North"; Sverker Sörlin.

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