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Author:   Emma Kowal ,  Joanna Radin ,  Rafico Ruiz ,  Paula Schönach
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:  

9780774869362

ISBN 10:   0774869364
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   01 November 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword: Cryopolitics after Ice / Joanna Radin and Emma Kowal Introduction: A Cold Humanities after Ice / Rafico Ruiz, Paula Schönach, and Rob Shields Part 1: Cold Humanities for the Arctic 1 On Cryohuman Relations / Cymene Howe 2 I, Nuligak and Indigenous Arctic Temporalities / Hester Blum 3 Freeze-up, Breakup, and Colonial Circulation / Liza Piper Part 2: Warm, Cool, Icy, Changing Cold Social Conditions 4 Of Mammoths and Meat: Natural History and Artificial Refrigeration in the Nineteenth Century / Rebecca J.H. Woods 5 Materials after Ice Thaw: Methane, Microbes, Mud / Juan Francisco Salazar and Jessica O’Reilly 6 Archives Melting (and Meltdowns) / Mél Hogan and Sarah T. Roberts Part 3: The Cultural Afterlives of Ice 7 Perishing Twice: On Play in a Warming World / Alenda Y. Chang 8 Afterlife of Ice: Animation and Air / Esther Leslie 9 Contrapuntal Ice / Jeff Diamanti 10 On the Techno-Metaphorology of Hibernation / Zsolt Miklósvölgyi and Márió Z. Nemes Afterword: A Synthesis and Research Agenda for the Cold Humanities / Mark Carey Index

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"""In putting forward the concept of the cold humanities, this book makes a provocative contribution to the field of ice- and cold-related environmental humanities. It is full of excellent scholarship on cold themes and cold places.""-- ""Adrian Howkins, coeditor of the Cambridge History of the Polar Regions"" ""After Ice will be useful to open a conversation about melting materialities under changing climates.""-- ""Dolly J�rgensen, coeditor of Northscapes: History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments"""

""In putting forward the concept of the cold humanities, this book makes a provocative contribution to the field of ice- and cold-related environmental humanities. It is full of excellent scholarship on cold themes and cold places.""-- ""Adrian Howkins, coeditor of the Cambridge History of the Polar Regions"" ""After Ice will be useful to open a conversation about melting materialities under changing climates.""-- ""Dolly J�rgensen, coeditor of Northscapes: History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments""

Author Information

Rafico Ruiz is the associate director of research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. He is the author of Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier and coeditor, with Melody Jue, of Saturation: An Elemental Politics. Paula Schönach is the senior adviser in sustainability at the Aalto University School of Business and the director of the CLIMATE-research program of the Strategic Research Council, both in Finland. With Esa Ruuskanen and Kari Väyrynen, she is a coeditor of Suomen ympäristöhistoria 1700-luvulta nykyaikaan (Environmental history of Finland from the eighteenth century to the present). Rob Shields is the Henry Marshall Tory Research Chair and a professor of human geography and sociology at the University of Alberta. As well as authoring publications such as Spatial Questions: Cultural Topologies and Social Spatialisations, The Virtual, and Places on the Margin: Alternative Geographies of Modernity, he has conducted online projects such as wildspirits.ualberta.ca and is the founder of the journal Space and Culture. Contributors: Hester Blum, Mark Carey, Alenda Y. Chang, Jeff Diamanti, Mél Hogan, Cymene Howe, Emma Kowal, Esther Leslie, Zsolt Miklósvölgyi, Márió Z. Nemes, Jessica O’Reilly, Liza Piper, Joanna Radin, Sarah T. Roberts, Juan Francisco Salazar, Rebecca J.H. Woods

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