Overview

As climate change accelerates, melting sea ice is fueling the global imagination and geopolitical anticipation of the Arctic region’s accessible transport routes and possibilities for resource extraction. “Silk Roads” are being conjured across the circumpolar North, both as official Arctic and infrastructural policy, and as broader visions of global connectivity with other markets. Following the myriad ways that local economies and agencies are proliferating around the anticipation of large-scale infrastructural corridors and their often-unrealized arteries, Arctic Silk Roads examines the different conditions under which top-down infrastructural dreams facilitate or constrain individual agencies.

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Author:   Natalia Magnani ,  Matthew Magnani
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   7
ISBN:  

9781836953081

ISBN 10:   1836953089
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   01 January 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Imagining Unbuilt Infrastructures across the Circumpolar North Natalia Magnani and Matthew Magnani Chapter 1. Imagining the Arctic in Northeast China: Ethnic Minorities and the State along the Polar Silk Road Richard Fraser Chapter 2. Vast Spaces and Inconsistent Anticipations in the Northeast Siberian Arctic Florian Stammler, Aytalina Ivanova, and Piers Vitebsky Chapter 3. Economies of Ghost Infrastructures in Arctic Norway Natalia Magnani and Matthew Magnani Chapter 4. Polar Silk Worlding: Imagination, Infrastructure, and Anticipation in Chinese Arctic Tourism Ria-Maria Adams and Mia M. Bennett Chapter 5. Anticipating Arctic Roads in Sápmi: From Finnish Nation Building to Global Geopolitics Veli-Pekka Lehtola Chapter 6. The Expansion of the Port of Prince Rupert:Between Economic Development and Alternative Life Paths Giuseppe Amatulli Chapter 7. The Promises and Fears of Infrastructure: An Alaskan Port Expansion, Geopolitics, and Local (Dis-)Engagement Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer Conclusion: The Resonance of the Unbuilt Matthew Magnani and Natalia Magnani

Reviews

“I found this book to provide a novel and interesting take on the Silk Road concept, by relating and applying it to movements in the Arctic.” • Per Ditlef Fredriksen, University of Oslo

Author Information

Natalia Magnani is Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. She leads the Norwegian Research Council project “Arctic Silk Road” at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

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