Arctic Abstractive Industry

Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North

AvArthur Mason

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Through diverse engagements with natural resource extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, contributors to this volume apprehend Arctic resource regimes through the concept of abstraction. Abstraction refers to the creation of new material substances and cultural values by detaching parts from existing substances and values. The abstractive process differs from the activity of extractive industries by its focus on the conceptual resources that conceal processes of exploitation associated with extraction. The study of abstraction can thus help us attune to the formal operations that make appropriations of value possible while disclosing the politics of extraction and of its representation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-05
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:338 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in the Circumpolar North
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781805393382

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Arthur Mason is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His previous edited volume is Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas, with co-editors Hannah Appel and Michael Watts (Cornell, 2015).

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“This book is timely in bringing together scholars working on extractive industries and related themes in the Arctic, including fisheries, fossil fuels, and minerals development, climate change and the like in the US, Canada, Russia, and Greenland.” • Thomas F. Thornton, University of Alaska Southeast

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresPreface: From Northern Lights to Fluorescent lightsArthur MasonIntroduction: Arctic Late Industrialism: Extracting Value through AbstractionArthur MasonThis chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social SciencesChapter 1. To Melt Away: Abstractive Sensations in IceCymene HoweThis chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social SciencesChapter 2. The Biggest, the Best, the Most, the Last: Creating Valuable and Vulnerable Resources in Coastal AlaskaDanielle DiNovelli-Lang and Karen HébertChapter 3. Timescaping the Arctic with Real-Time Data: Challenges for Fishing and Oil InterestsVidar Hepsø and Elena ParmiggianiChapter 4. Wild Lands, Remote Edges: Formations and Abstractions in Greenland’s Resource ZonesMark NuttallChapter 5. Forging Off-World Frontiers: Chinese Steel and Arctic IronMia M. BennettChapter 6. Constructing and Contesting Temporalities in the Mackenzie Gas ProjectCarly DokisChapter 7. Material Unconscious of the Earth: Extractive Ontology and the Invisible War in SiberiaOxana TimofeevaChapter 8. Representation Without Resemblance: Graphical Expression in Hydrocarbon IndustryArthur MasonAfterword: Arctic AbstractionsMichael J. WattsThis chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social SciencesIndex