Paperback. This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the anthropocene. Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means to investigate it not only as a place of human history and memory of Arctic exploring, conquering and colonizing , but to take into account also the specific environmental conditions of the circumpolar region: ice and permafrost. These have allowed a huge natural archive to emerge, offering rich sources for natural scientists and historians alike. Examining the debate on the notion of (natural) archive, the cultural semantics and historicity of the meaning of concepts like warm, cold, freezing and melting as well as various works of literature, art and science on Arctic topics, this volume brings together literary scholars, historians of knowledge and philosophy, art historians, media theorists and archivologists. In the context of anthropocene the volume aims at investigating the Arctic as an endangered archive of natural as well as human history in its various semantics. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Arctic Archives Ice, Memory, and Entropy (Paperback)
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Publication Date: 2021
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3837646564
ISBN 13: 9783837646566
Binding: Paperback
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This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the anthropocene.
Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means to investigate it not only as a place of human history and memory – of Arctic exploring, ›conquering‹ and colonizing –, but to take into account also the specific environmental conditions of the circumpolar region: ice and permafrost. These have allowed a huge natural archive to emerge, offering rich sources for natural scientists and historians alike.
Examining the debate on the notion of (›natural‹) archive, the cultural semantics and historicity of the meaning of concepts like ›warm‹, ›cold‹, ›freezing‹ and ›melting‹ as well as various works of literature, art and science on Arctic topics, this volume brings together literary scholars, historians of knowledge and philosophy, art historians, media theorists and archivologists.

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Susanne Frank (Prof. Dr.) leitet das Fachgebiet �Ostslawische Literaturen und Kulturen� an der Humboldt-Universit�t zu Berlin.

Kjetil A. Jakobsen is Professor of history at Nord Universitet Bodo. From 2011 to 2014 he was Henrik Steffens professor at Humboldt University Berlin.

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