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Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood : Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic / Charlotte Wrigley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wrigley, Charlotte, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Permafrost--Russia (Federation)--Sakha.
- Permafrost.
- Permafrost--Effect of global warming on--Sakha.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood presents a meditative engagement with permafrost as more than just frozen ground. Wrigley considers how permafrost and its disappearance redefines extinction to be a lack of continuity, both material and social, and something that affects not only life on earth but nonlife, too"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Introduction: Permafrost Life
- Chapter 1. Earth
- A Global Permafrost Apocalypse
- Permafrost Science at the Pleistocene Park
- The Pleistocene Park as Planetary Redemption
- Chersky and the Mainland
- Permafrost Ruptures and Island Apocalypses
- The Lives All Around
- Reimagining the Planetary
- Chapter 2. Ice
- Sakhan Refrigerators
- The Antipermafrost and Extinction in the Permafrost Tunnel
- The Permafrost Law and Inhuman Subjectivity
- Does Permafrost Breathe?
- Permafrost as Commodity and the Hunt for White Gold
- Unearthing Multiplicity through Stories
- The Lives Underfoot
- Chapter 3. Bone
- Permafrost Underground and the Verticality of Time
- Deep Pasts: The Super-terrestrial with(out) Humans
- Shallow Histories: The Soviet Union and the Genesis of the Pleistocene Park
- (Re)emergent Landscapes and the Intricacies of Reproduction
- Animal Agencies and Skeletal Afterlives
- The Subterranean as a Future Repository
- The Lives Coming Back
- Chapter 4. Blood
- Mammoth Histories
- (Un)broken Lineages and Blood Ties
- Entering the Cryobank
- The Cryopolitics of Future Life
- Immortality and Resurrection in the Secular Age
- Giving Up on Life
- The Lives of the Future
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wrigley, Charlotte Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood
- ISBN:
- 9781452968988
- 1452968985
- 9781452968971
- 1452968977
- OCLC:
- 1371405866
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