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Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History ARCTIC ENVIRONMENTAL MODERNITIES From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene Edited by Lill-Ann Körber, Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerståhl Stenport Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History Series Editors Vinita Damodaran Department of History University of Sussex Brighton, United Kingdom Rohan D’Souza Shiv Nadar University Agra, India Sujit Sivasundaram University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom James John Beattie Department of History University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand The widespread perception of a global environmental crisis has stimulated the burgeoning interest in environmental studies. This has encouraged a wide range of scholars, including historians, to place the environment at the heart of their analytical and conceptual explorations. As a result, the understanding of the history of human interactions with all parts of the cultivated and non-cultivated surface of the earth and with living organ- isms and other physical phenomena is increasingly seen as an essential aspect both of historical scholarship and in adjacent fields, such as the his- tory of science, anthropology, geography, and sociology. Environmental history can be of considerable assistance in efforts to comprehend the traumatic environmental difficulties facing us today, while making us reconsider the bounds of possibility open to humans over time and space in their interaction with different environments. This new series explores these interactions in studies that together touch on all parts of the globe and all manner of environments including the built environment. Books in the series will come from a wide range of fields of scholarship, from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The series particularly encour- ages interdisciplinary projects that emphasize historical engagement with science and other fields of study. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14570 Lill-Ann Körber • Scott MacKenzie • Anna Westerståhl Stenport Editors Arctic Environmental Modernities From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene Editors Lill-Ann Körber Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Scott MacKenzie Department of Film and Media Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Anna Westerståhl Stenport School of Modern Languages Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History ISBN 978-3-319-39115-1 ISBN 978-3-319-39116-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39116-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016957716 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the pub- lisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover image © ARCTIC IMAGES / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland A cknowledgments The editors are grateful to the many people, organizations, and grant- ing agencies that have supported our work on this project. We benefited from the opportunity to organize multi-year Arctic programs at the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study’s annual conferences between 2013 and 2016, a project that originated in San Francisco in 2013. The early stages of research that went into this book were pre- sented at the 2014 “Arctic Modernities” conference in Tromsø, Norway, and in conversation with Anka Ryall, Henning Howlid Wærp, and Johan Schimanski of the Arctic Modernities and Arctic Discourses proj- ects at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. We value the feedback we received at the Hammarskjöld lecture series at the Nordeuropa-Institut at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin in 2015. Lill-Ann Körber wishes to acknowledge the support provided by the Henrik Steffens Professorship at Humboldt-Universität and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst; Scott MacKenzie, the Fund for Scholarly Research and Creative Work and Professional Development, Queen’s University; Anna Westerståhl Stenport, the European Union Centre of Excellence, the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, the Conrad Professorial Humanities Fund, and the Research Board at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerståhl Stenport wish to acknowl- edge the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which provided them with an Insight Grant. We are grateful for the diligent work undertaken by our research assistants Noelle Belanger, v vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Carlo Di-Gioulio, Paul Greiner, and Garrett Traylor, and for the editorial assistance provided by Angela Anderson. We benefited from the astute feedback offered by colleagues Verena Höfig, Janke Klok, Mark Safstrom, and Stefanie von Schnurbein, as well as by our external readers. c ontents 1 Introduction: Arctic Modernities, Environmental Politics, and the Era of the Anthropocene 1 Lill-Ann Körber, Scott MacKenzie, and Anna Westerståhl Stenport 2 The Disappearing Arctic? Scientific Narrative, Environmental Crisis, and the Ghosts of Colonial History 21 Andrew Stuhl 3 Petro-images of the Arctic and Statoil’s Visual Imaginary 43 Synnøve Marie Vik 4 Arctic Urbanization: Modernity Without Cities 59 Torill Nyseth 5 Cod Society: The Technopolitics of Modern Greenland 71 Kristian H. Nielsen 6 Re-reading Knut Hamsun in Collaboration with Place in Lule Sámi Nordlándda 87 Kikki Jernsletten and Troy Storfjell vii viii CONTENTS 7 The Polar Hero’s Progress: Fridtjof Nansen, Spirituality, and Environmental History 107 Mark Safstrom 8 Heritage, Conservation, and the Geopolitics of Svalbard: Writing the History of Arctic Environments 125 Dag Avango and Peder Roberts 9 Toxic Blubber and Seal Skin Bikinis, or: How Green Is Greenland? Ecology in Contemporary Film and Art 145 Lill-Ann Körber 10 The Negative Space in the National Imagination: Russia and the Arctic 169 Lilya Kaganovsky 11 Invisible Landscapes: Extreme Oil and the Arctic in Experimental Film and Activist Art Practices 183 Lisa E. Bloom 12 Icelandic Futures: Arctic Dreams and Geographies of Crisis 197 Ann-Sofie Nielsen Gremaud 13 Feminist and Environmentalist Public Governance in the Arctic 215 Eva-Maria Svensson 14 The Greenlandic Reconciliation Commission: Ethnonationalism, Arctic Resources, and Post-Colonial Identity 231 Kirsten Thisted CONTENTS ix 15 Arctic Futures: Agency and Assessing Assessments 247 Nina Wormbs and Sverker Sörlin Index 263
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