Arcticness : power and voice from the North /
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| Imprint: | London : UCL Press, 2017. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (181 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11398031 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
- Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface
- 'Arcticness and change'; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; 1 Editorial Introduction: Shall I compare thee to an Arctic day (or night)?; Arcticness as a home; Arcticness as a book; Arcticness as a context; PART 1 Arcticness Emerging; 2 Maintaining my Arcticness; 3 Conversations in the Dark; Tracking the Arctic; Background; Rationale; 4 Radar observations of Arctic ice; Background; Radar observation methods; Satellite radar; Airborne radar; Ground-based radar; Scientific examples of Arctic ice observations.
- Satellite observations of Arctic sea ice thicknessAirborne radar; Ground-based radar at Store Glacier, West Greenland; Arctic science communication and outreach; The 'dos' and 'don'ts' of science communication; Outreach; Conclusions and outlook; 5 Arcticness: In the making of the beholder; PART 2 Arcticness Living; 6 Arcticness insights; The sounds of quiet; Isolation and togetherness; Meat we eat; The interconnectedness of characteristics and perspectives on quality of life in the Arctic; 7 Reindeer herding in a changing world
- a comparative analysis; Introduction.
- Comparative aspects of land tenure privatisationLand tenure; A chronology of land tenure changes in Tibet and Norway; Fragmentation, privatisation and density dependence; Privatisation as a source of fragmentation; Density dependence and density independence; Discussion; Reduced mobility, intensification and degradation; The erosion of cooperative networks; Concluding remarks and future prospects; Acknowledgement; 8 Energy justice: A new framework for examining Arcticness in the context of energy infrastructure development; The energy justice framework; The framework.
- Energy infrastructure development in the ArcticJustice and Arcticness in energy infrastructure development; Expanding justice in Arcticness
- a new role for the non-human; Implications: energy justice and 'frames' of Arcticness; 9 Understanding Arcticness: Comparing resource frontier narratives in the Arctic and East Africa; Introduction; Background; Materiality; Global interest; Governance; Community; Conclusion; 10 Scopes and limits of 'Arcticness': Arctic livelihoods, marine mammals and the law; Introduction; Arctic peoples in international legal regimes
- the case of marine mammal hunting.
- Arctic livelihoods as a legal construct'Arcticness' in other legal contexts; Conclusion; PART 3 Arcticness Futures; 11 Continental divide: Shifting Canadian and Russian Arcticness; Introduction; Canadian Arctic; Political change; Changing demography; The changing state of knowledge; Russian Arctic; Political change; Development and demography; The changing state of knowledge; Differences and similarities between the Canadian and Russian Arctic regions; Learning from the continent-bound Arcticness; 12 Imagining the future: Local perceptions of Arctic extractive projects that didn't happen.