Arctic Environmental Modernities

The essays challenge a conventional view of the Arctic that often relies on colonial, gendered, capitalist, and racialized power structures , as well as one driven by geopolitics and the deductive model of the natural sciences. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; faculty and professionals. (R. A. Delgado Jr., Choice, Vol. 55 (1), September, 2017)

Lill-Ann Krber is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Associate Professor II of Modern Scandinavian Literature at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her publications include the co-edited The Postcolonial North Atlantic: Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands (2014). Scott MacKenzie teaches in the Department of Film and Media, Queens University, Canada. His many books include Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic (co-ed., 2015) and Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures (ed. 2014). Anna Westersthl Stenport is Professor and Chair of the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. She co-edited Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic (2015) and has published extensively on Arctic, Nordic, and European culture, cinema, and literature.

Introduction: Arctic Environmental Modernities from the Age of Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene by Lill-Ann Krber, Scott MacKenzie, and Anna Westersthl 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 Synnve 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 Smi Nordlndda 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 Krber.- 9. The Negative Space in the National Imagination: Russia and the Arctic by Lilya Kaganovsky.- 10. Invisible Landscapes: Extreme Oil and the Arctic in Experimental Film and Activist Art Practices by Lisa E. Bloom.- 11. Icelandic Futures: Arctic Dreams and Geographies of Crisis by Anne-Sofie Nielsen Gremaud.- 12. Feminist and Environmentalist Public Governance in the Arctic by Eva-Maria Svensson.- 13.The Greenlandic Reconciliation Commission: Ethnonationalism, Arctic Resources, and Post-Colonial Identity by Kirsten Thisted.- 14. Arctic Futures and Global Assessment Policy by Nina Wormbs and Sverker Srlin.