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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dodds, Klaus, editor.

Sörlin, Sverker, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology.

Human ecology.

Glacial erosion.

Glaciology.

Geopolitics.

Marine ecology.

Sea ice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

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 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 biochemical - 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, 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 breathtaking. 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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Ice humanities: living, working, and thinking in a melting world / Klaus Dodds

pt. I Living with ice

1. Writing on sea ice: early modern Icelandic scholars / Astrid E. J. Ogilvie

2. A moving element: ice, culture, and economy in northern and northwestern Russia / Alexei Kraikovski

3. Ever higher: the mountain cryosphere / Dani Inkpen

4. Glacier protection campaigns: what do they really save? / Sam Flanzer

5. Ice futures: the extension of jurisdiction in the Anthropocene north / James Wilt

pt. II Working with ice

6. White spots on rivers of gold: imperial glaciers in Russian Central Asia / Christine Bichsel

7. The many ways that water froze: a taxonomy of ice in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America / Jonathan Rees

8. Drift, capture, break, and vanish: sea ice in the Soviet Museum of the Arctic in the 1930s / Ruth Maclennan

9. Waiting and witnessing at Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica / Jessica O'Reilly

pt. III Thinking with ice

10. Imperial slippages: encountering and knowing ice in and beyond colonial India / Thomas Simpson

11. Negotiating governable objects: glaciers in Argentina / Jasmin Hoglund Hellgren

12. Cryonarratives for warming times: icebergs as planetary travelers / Elizabeth Leane

13. Frozen archives on the go: ice cores and the temporalization of Earth system science / Erik Isberg.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Jun 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526157768

9781526157782

1526157780

OCLC:

1287993245