Critical Norths: Space, Nature, Theory
Editat de Sarah Jaquette Ray, Kevin Maieren Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 iun 2017
For millennia, “the North” has held a powerful sway in Western culture. Long seen through contradictions—empty of life yet full of promise, populated by indigenous communities yet ripe for conquest, pristine yet marked by a long human history—it has moved to the foreground of contemporary life as the most dramatic stage for the reality of climate change.
This book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to ask key questions about the North and how we’ve conceived it—and how conceiving of it in those terms has caused us to fail the region’s human and nonhuman life. Engaging questions of space, place, indigeneity, identity, nature, the environment, justice, narrative, history, and more, it offers a crucial starting point for an essential rethinking of both the idea and the reality of the North.
This book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to ask key questions about the North and how we’ve conceived it—and how conceiving of it in those terms has caused us to fail the region’s human and nonhuman life. Engaging questions of space, place, indigeneity, identity, nature, the environment, justice, narrative, history, and more, it offers a crucial starting point for an essential rethinking of both the idea and the reality of the North.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781602233195
ISBN-10: 1602233195
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: 12 halftones, 5 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: University of Alaska Press
Colecția University of Alaska Press
ISBN-10: 1602233195
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: 12 halftones, 5 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: University of Alaska Press
Colecția University of Alaska Press
Notă biografică
Sara Jaquette Ray is associate professor of environmental studies at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, where she also leads the Environmental Studies Program. Kevin Maier is associate professor of English and chair of the humanities department at the University of Alaska Southeast.
Recenzii
“Diverse, engaging, meticulously edited essays.”
“Succeeds at entering into the flow of questions, politics, and contradictions surrounding the North. . . . The ideas in these essays are not intended for quiet pondering, but for immediate integration into our work, whether creative, political, or industrial.”
“The North oscillates between a region seen as distant and removed from the modern world to a region on the forefront of contemporary climate change. Critical Norths: Space, Nature, Theory edited by Sarah Jaquette Ray and Kevin Maier tackles these dichotomies beginning with the volume’s title. . . . The editors and contributors are to be praised for producing a well-written and coherent collection.”