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Arctic Abstractive Industry : Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , , , , , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Studies in the Circumpolar North ;
5 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface. From Northern Lights to Fluorescent Lights
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Arctic Late Industrialism: Extracting Value through Abstraction
- Chapter 1. To Melt Away: Abstractive Sensations in Ice
- Chapter 2. The Biggest, the Best, the Most, the Last: Creating Valuable and Vulnerable Resources in Coastal Alaska
- Chapter 3. Timescaping the Arctic with Real-Time Data: Challenges for Fishing and Oil Interests
- Chapter 4. Wild Lands, Remote Edges: Formations and Abstractions in Greenland's Resource Zones
- Chapter 5. Forging Off -World Frontiers: Chinese Steel and Arctic Iron
- Chapter 6. Constructing and Contesting Temporalities in the Mackenzie Gas Project
- Chapter 7. Material Unconscious of the Earth: Extractive Ontology and the Invisible War in Siberia
- Chapter 8. Representation without Resemblance: Graphical Expression in Hydrocarbon Industry
- Afterword. Arctic Abstractions
- Index