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Ice humanities
Living, working, and thinking in a melting world
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2022
About this book
Ice humanities is a pioneering collection of essays that tackles the existential crisis posed by the planet's diminishing ice reserves. By the end of this century, we will likely be facing a world where sea ice no longer reliably forms in large areas of the Arctic Ocean, where glaciers have not just retreated but disappeared, where ice sheets collapse, and where permafrost is far from permanent. The ramifications of such change are not simply geophysical and biochemical. They are societal and cultural, and they are about value and loss.
Where does this change leave our inherited ideas, knowledge and experiences of ice, snow, frost and frozen ground? How will human, animal and plant communities superbly adapted to cold and high places cope with less ice, or even none at all? The ecological services provided by ice are breath-taking, providing mobility, water and food security for hundreds of millions of people around the world, often Indigenous and vulnerable communities. The stakes could not be higher.
Drawing on sources ranging from oral testimony to technical scientific expertise, this path-breaking collection sets out a highly compelling claim for the emerging field of ice humanities, convincingly demonstrating that the centrality of ice in human and non-human life is now impossible to ignore.
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 13, Climate action
Where does this change leave our inherited ideas, knowledge and experiences of ice, snow, frost and frozen ground? How will human, animal and plant communities superbly adapted to cold and high places cope with less ice, or even none at all? The ecological services provided by ice are breath-taking, providing mobility, water and food security for hundreds of millions of people around the world, often Indigenous and vulnerable communities. The stakes could not be higher.
Drawing on sources ranging from oral testimony to technical scientific expertise, this path-breaking collection sets out a highly compelling claim for the emerging field of ice humanities, convincingly demonstrating that the centrality of ice in human and non-human life is now impossible to ignore.
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 13, Climate action
Author / Editor information
Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics and Executive Dean of the School of Life Sciences and Environment at Royal Holloway, University of London
Sverker Sörlin is Professor of Environmental History at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Sverker Sörlin is Professor of Environmental History at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
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Front Matter
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Contents
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List of figures
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List of tables
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List of contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Ice humanities
1 - Part I: Living with ice
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1 Writing on sea ice
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2 A moving element
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3 Ever higher
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4 Glacier protection campaigns
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5 Ice futures
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6 White spots on rivers of gold
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7 The many ways that water froze
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8 Drift, capture, break, and vanish
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9 Waiting and witnessing at Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica
188 - Part III: Thinking with ice
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10 Imperial slippages
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11 Negotiating governable objects
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12 Cryonarratives for warming times
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13 Frozen archives on the go
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Index
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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September 6, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781526157782
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eBook ISBN:
9781526157782
Keywords for this book
Ice humanities; Cryosphere; Sea ice; Critical geography; Environmental history; History of science; Icebergs; Anthropocene; Cryo-history; Glaciers; Climate action
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
