Dodds / Sörlin Ice humanities

Living, working, and thinking in a melting world
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5778-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

This collection develops the field of ice humanities in order to reveal the centrality of ice and the need to understand better why, where, and how it matters to human and more than human life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dodds, Klaus

Sörlin, Sverker

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Ice humanities: living, working, and thinking in a melting world – Sverker Sörlin and Klaus Dodds

Part I: Living with ice
1 Writing on sea ice: early modern Icelandic scholars – Astrid E. J. Ogilvie
2 A moving element: ice, culture, and economy in northern and northwestern Russia – Alexei Kraikovski
3 Ever higher: the mountain cryosphere – Dani Inkpen

4 Glacier protection campaigns: what do they really save? – Mark Carey, Jordan Barton, and Sam Flanzer

5 Ice futures: the extension of jurisdiction in the Anthropocene north – Bruce Erickson, Liam Kennedy-Slaney, and James Wilt

Part II: Working with ice
6 White spots on rivers of gold: imperial glaciers in Russian Central Asia – Christine Bichsel
7 The many ways that water froze: a taxonomy of ice in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America – Jonathan Rees
8 Drift, capture, break, and vanish: sea ice in the Soviet Museum of the Arctic in the 1930s – Julia Lajus and Ruth Maclennan
9 Waiting and witnessing at Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica – Jessica O’Reilly

Part III: Thinking with ice
10 Imperial slippages: encountering and knowing ice in and beyond colonial India – Thomas Simpson
11 Negotiating governable objects: glaciers in Argentina – Jasmin Höglund Hellgren
12 Cryonarratives for warming times: icebergs as planetary travellers – Elizabeth Leane
13 Frozen archives on the go: ice cores and the temporalization of Earth system science – Erik Isberg

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics and Executive Dean of the School of Life Sciences and Environment at Royal Holloway, University of London

Sverker Sörlin is Professor of Environmental History at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm