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This book offers a diverse and groundbreaking account of the intersections between modernities and environments in the circumpolar global North, foregrounding the Arctic as a critical space of modernity, where the past, present, and future of the planet’s

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ARCTIC ENVIRONMENTAL MODERNITIES From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene

Edited by Lill-Ann Körber, Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerståhl Stenport

Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History Series Editors Vinita Damodaran Department of History University of Sussex Brighton, United Kingdom Rohan D’Souza Shiv Nadar University Agra, India Sujit Sivasundaram University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom James John Beattie Department of History University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand

The widespread perception of a global environmental crisis has stimulated the burgeoning interest in environmental studies. This has encouraged a wide range of scholars, including historians, to place the environment at the heart of their analytical and conceptual explorations. As a result, the understanding of the history of human interactions with all parts of the cultivated and non-cultivated surface of the earth and with living organisms and other physical phenomena is increasingly seen as an essential aspect both of historical scholarship and in adjacent fields, such as the history of science, anthropology, geography, and sociology. Environmental history can be of considerable assistance in efforts to comprehend the traumatic environmental difficulties facing us today, while making us reconsider the bounds of possibility open to humans over time and space in their interaction with different environments. This new series explores these interactions in studies that together touch on all parts of the globe and all manner of environments including the built environment. Books in the series will come from a wide range of fields of scholarship, from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The series particularly encourages interdisciplinary projects that emphasize historical engagement with science and other fields of study.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14570

Lill-Ann Körber • Scott MacKenzie • Anna Westerståhl Stenport Editors

Arctic Environmental Modernities From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene

Editors Lill-Ann Körber Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Scott MacKenzie Department of Film and Media Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Anna Westerståhl Stenport School of Modern Languages Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History ISBN 978-3-319-39115-1    ISBN 978-3-319-39116-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39116-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016957716 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, comp