
Critical Norths
Space, Nature, Theory
University of Alaska Press
Will be published approx. on 15. May 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-60223-319-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
New Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Farmington Hills
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
509 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60223-319-5 (9781602233195)
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Persons
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.