After ice : cold humanities for a warming planet / edited by Rafico Ruiz, Paula Schönach, and Rob Shields.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ruiz, Rafico, 1981- editor.

Schönach, Paula, editor.

Shields, Rob, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ice--Social aspects.

Ice.

Ice--History.

Ice--Political aspects.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

xii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2024]

Summary:

"As the climate warms and the hydrological cycle is disrupted, ice is no longer a reliable feature of higher latitudes or winter seasons. What are the human and non-human consequences of the planet's waning capacity to cool? In other words, what comes after ice? This collection examines the implications of the end of consistent freezing and thawing cycles. The cryosphere traditionally refers to areas where water is solid, such as places of snow, ice, and permafrost on the planet. Today, a new cryosphere is emerging that encompasses experiences generated by the uncertain horizons of melting ice, and whose future is increasingly determined by human behaviour. In this context, After Ice gathers experts in a wide range of disciplines--environmental history, game studies, Indigenous studies--to articulate aspects of the cold humanities. They investigate ice and its dynamic properties as a foundational element of Indigenous communities in the Arctic, as a commodity with technological and political value, and as a reflection of environmental change and the passage of time. This original, thought-provoking exploration envisions ice not only as a phase of water but also as a milieu for semantic and embodied sensemaking. It asks us to consider how to define, describe, and materially characterize our warming world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1. Cold humanities for the Arctic. On cryohuman relations / Cymene Howe

I, Nugilak and Indigenous Arctic temporalities / Hester Blum

Freeze-up, breakup, and colonial circulation / Liza Piper

Part 2. Warm, cool, icy, changing cold social conditions. Of mammoths and meat : natural history and artificial refrigeration in the nineteenth century / Rebecca J. H. Woods

Materials after ice thaw : methane, microbes, mud / Juan Francisco Salazar and Jessica O'Reilly

Archives melting (and meltdowns) / M̌l Hogan and Sarah T. Roberts

Part 3. The cultural afterlives of ice. Perishing twice : on play in a warming world / Alenda Y. Chang

Afterlife of ice : animation and air / Esther Leslie

Contrapuntal ice / Jeff Diamanti

On the techno-metaphorology of hibernation / Zsolt Miklósvölgyi and Márió Z. Nemes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: After ice.

ISBN:

9780774869379

0774869372

OCLC:

1430496449

Publisher Number:

90102108355