Ice humanities : living, thinking and working in a melting world / edited by Klaus Dodds and Sverker Sörlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dodds, Klaus, editor.

So¨rlin, Sverker, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology.

Human ecology.

Glacial erosion.

Glaciology.

Marine ecology.

Sea ice.

Geopolitics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics and Executive Dean of the School of Life Sciences and Environment at Royal Holloway, University of London

Sverker Sörlin is Professor of Environmental History at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Summary:

Ice humanities is a path-breaking collection of essays that tackles the existential crisis posed by the loss or lack of ice. For hundreds of millions of people, often Indigenous and vulnerable communities around the world, ice is integral to water security, mobility, and access to food as well as providing a habitat for marine mammals. Our relationship to ice has evolved over millennia and the knowledge base ranges from oral testimony to technical-scientific expertise. Ice has not only been integral to back-casting past climates but also a vital accomplice for speculations concerning the earth’s future. This collection develops the field of ice humanities in order to reveal the centrality of ice and the need to understand better why, where, and how it matters to both human and animal life.

" Ice humanities is a pioneering collection of essays designed to bring to the fore how change to our cryosphere is imagined and experienced. By the end of this century, we will likely be facing a world where sea ice no longer reliably forms in large areas of the Arctic Ocean, where glaciers have not just retreated but disappeared, where ice sheets collapse, and where permafrost is far from permanent. The ramifications of such change are not geophysical and bio-chemical. They are societal and cultural, and they are about value and loss. Where does that leave our inherited ideas, knowledge and experiences of ice, snow, frost and frozen ground? How will human and animal and plant communities superbly adapted to cold and high places cope with less, or even no ice? The ecological services provided by ice alone are breath-taking. Just one example is the role of seasonal meltwater in providing water and food security for hundreds of millions of people around the world. The stakes could not be higher. This collection develops the field of ice humanities in order to reveal the centrality of ice in human and non-human life." -- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction. Ice Humanities: Living, Thinking and Working with Ice / Sverker Sörlin and Klaus Dodds

part I. Living with Ice. Writing on Sea Ice : Icelandic Scholars of the Late-Sixteenth and Early-Seventeenth Centuries / Astrid E.J. Ogilvie ; A moving element : Ice, culture, and economy in Northern and North-Western Russia / Alexei Kraikovski ; Ever higher : The mountain cryosphere / Dani Inkpen ; Glacier Protection Campaigns : What Do They Really Save? / Mark Carey, Jordan Barton, and Sam Flanzer ; Ice Futures : The Extension of Jurisdiction in the Anthropocene North / Bruce Erikson, Liam Kennedy-Slaney and James Wilt

part II. Working with Ice. White Spots on Rivers of Gold : Imperial Glaciers in Russian Central Asia / Christine Bichsel ; The Many Ways that Water Froze : A Taxonomy of Ice in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century America / Jonathan Rees ; Drift, Capture, Break and Vanish : Sea Ice in the Soviet Museum of the Arctic in the 1930s / Julia Lajus and Ruth Maclennan ; Waiting and witnessing at Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica / Jessica O’Reilly

part III. Thinking with Ice. Imperial slippages : Encountering and knowing ice in and beyond colonial India / Thomas Simpson ; Negotiating Governable Objects : Glaciers in Argentina / Jasmin Höglund Hellgren ; Cryo-narratives for Warming Times : Icebergs as Planetary Travellers / Elle Leane ; Frozen archives on the go : Ice cores and the temporalization of Earth System Science / Erik Isberg

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781526157768

9781526157782

1526157780

OCLC:

1287993245