Cold waters : tangible and symbolic seascapes of the North. / / edited by Markku Lehtimäki, [and three others]

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Disciplina: 917
• Soggetto topico: Oceanography
• Persona (resp. second.): LehtimäkiMarkku
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Note on Transliteration -- Northern Waters: From Terrestrial to Water-Bound Knowledge -- Cold Water in Focus -- Part I: Mediating the Change -- Part II: Hydrological Space and Politics -- Part III: Narrating and Visualizing Cold Waters -- References -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- List of Figures -- Part I: Mediating the Change -- Chapter 1: The Problem of Plastic in the Arctic -- 1.1 The Peculiar Arctic Plastic -- 1.2 From Funny Plastic Toys on an Arctic Expedition… -- 1.3 … to Worried Oceanographers -- 1.4 The Plastic Debris and the Cold Water -- 1.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Rivers through the Prism of Oil Spills: Native Voices from the Russian Arctic -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Introducing the Voices of Pechora Residents into the Oil-Water Debate: Theory and Method -- 2.3 Oil Spills in the Komi Republic: An Overview -- 2.4 The Transformative Power of an Oil Spill: The Usinsk Disaster -- 2.5 Death, Loss and Emptiness: Natives' Representations of Pechora Homeland -- 2.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Baltic Seals and Changing Marine Frontiers in the Twentieth Century -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Baltic Sea as the Hunting Frontier -- 3.3 Seals at the Chemical Frontier -- 3.4 Victims of the Iceless Climate Frontier -- 3.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: Conceptualizing Arctic Documentary: Combining Scientific Authority and the Interests of Broadcasters in BBC's Frozen Planet -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Selecting Knowledge for Entertainment Through Nature Documentaries -- 4.3 Ice, Snow and Bears -- 4.4 Economies of Celebrity Endorsement -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- Documentaries -- Literature -- Part II: Hydrological Space and Politics -- Chapter 5: The Voice of Ice in the Turku Archipelago: Narrating Icegraphy with Environmental Ethnography -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Environmental Ethnography. ; 5.2.1 Producing Local Ecological Knowledge -- 5.3 Nostalgic Narration -- 5.4 Icegraphy - Living with Ice -- 5.4.1 Sensing and Reading the Ice -- 5.4.2 Making and Breaking Routes with Ice -- 5.4.3 Growing with Ice -- 5.5 Conclusion -- References -- Research Material -- Literature -- Chapter 6: The "International" in Water-Society Relations: A Case Study of an Arctic Urban Watershed -- 6.1 The Problem of the "International" in Water-Society Relations -- 6.2 Eventalization as a Method -- 6.3 The Watershed in Rovaniemi -- 6.4 The Complex Situation in the Watershed -- 6.5 Mapping of Social Arenas and Worlds in the Watershed -- 6.6 The Future of the Watershed -- 6.7 Final Remarks -- References -- Chapter 7: Living by the River: Means, Meanings and Sense of Place -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Place and Water -- 7.3 "Means" of Living-by-the-River -- 7.4 Living by the River and Drinking Water -- 7.5 Between "Mundane" and "Aesthetic" -- 7.6 River and Grass -- 7.7 River and Floods -- 7.8 People and River Biographies -- 7.9 Voice of the River: Human-More-than-Human Relationship -- 7.10 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Emerging Trends in Arctic North America's Maritime Security Agenda: From Ice to Water -- 8.1 Setting the Geopolitical Stage: The North in Classical Geopolitics -- 8.2 Classical Geopolitical Futures in a Melting Arctic? -- 8.3 Transformations -- 8.4 From Ice to Water: New Security Frameworks -- 8.5 Environmental Security -- 8.6 Intersections -- 8.7 Conclusions -- References -- Part III: Narrating and Visualizing Cold Waters -- Chapter 9: Between Pomor Traditions and Arctic Modernities: The Northern Sea in Early Soviet Pomor Literature -- 9.1 Shergin's Stories and Pisakhov's Fairy Tales, Essays and Diaries -- 9.2 The Russian Arctic Ocean -- 9.3 Heroic Shipbuilders and Seafarers. ; 9.4 The Northern Sea as an Inexhaustible Source of Natural Resources -- 9.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Water, Oil and Spirits: Liquid Maps of the Taiga in Eremei Aipin's Novel Khanty, or the Star of the Dawn -- 10.1 Khanty, or the Star of the Dawn as a Native Historiography -- 10.2 Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Mapping and Memory -- 10.3 Mapping with the River -- 10.4 Mapping Temporalities -- 10.5 Settler-Colonial Mapping and Oil -- 10.6 Flows of Slow Violence -- 10.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: The Ambiguity of the Arctic Littoral: Changing Perspectives of Chukchi Communities in Two Russian Films -- 11.1 The Most Beautiful Ships -- 11.2 Flashbacks of Trauma -- 11.3 The Potential of Art and its Imaginary Powers -- 11.4 The Whaler Boy, a Post-Soviet Return to the Arctic Shore -- 11.5 Spectres of Extinction -- 11.6 Dissolving Borders and Identities -- 11.7 Littoral Dreaming and Awakenings -- 11.8 Conclusions -- References -- Filmography -- Literature -- Chapter 12: "The Silvery Song of Water": Nature, Experience, and Time in Paul Harding's Fiction -- 12.1 Consciousness and Water -- 12.2 Transcendentalism and Materialism -- 12.3 Winter Minds and Cold Water -- 12.4 Water, Immersion, and Memory -- 12.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: Speculative Water: Atopic Space and Oceanic Agency in Julie Bertagna's Raging Earth Trilogy -- 13.1 Mara in Water -- 13.2 Atopic Greenland -- 13.3 Information Flows -- 13.4 Tuck on Land -- 13.5 Conclusion -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cold waters
• ISBN: 3-031-10149-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910629279303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Springer Polar Sciences Ser.