Arcticness : power and voice from the North

Summary: Climate change and globalisation are opening up the Arctic for exploitation by the world - or so we are told. But what about the views, interests, and needs of the peoples who live in the region? What about the myriad of other factors affecting the Arctic and its peoples? This book explores opportunities and limitations in engaging with the Arctic under change, and the Arctic peoples experiencing the change, through the lens of understanding Arcticness: what the Arctic means to Arctic peoples socially and physically.

Record details

ISBN: 9781787350151 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
xix, 184 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: London : UCL Press, 2017.
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Editorial introduction: shall i compare thee to an arctic day (or night) -- Part 1. Arcticness emerging -- 2. Maintaining my Arcticness -- 3. conversations in the dark -- Poem: Tracking the Arctic -- 4. Radar observations of Arctic ice -- 5. Arcticness: In the making of the beholder -- Part 2. Arcticness Living -- 6. Arcticness insights -- 7. Reindeer herding in a changing world -- Poem: Aurora -- 8. Energy justice: a new framework for examining Arcticness in the context of energy infrastructure development -- 9. Understanding Arcticness: comparing resource frontier narratives in the Arctic and East Africa -- 10. Scopes and limits of 'Arcticness': Arctic livelihoods, marine mammals and the law -- Part 3. Arcticness futures -- 11. Continental divide: Shifting Canadian and Russian Arcticness -- 12. Imagining the future: local perceptions of Arctic extractive projects that didn't happen -- 13. Editorial conclusion: Arcticness, outside the Arctic