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Preface: From Northern Lights to Fluorescent lights
Arthur Mason
Introduction: Arctic Late Industrialism: Extracting Value through Abstraction
Arthur Mason
This chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social Sciences
Chapter 1. To Melt Away: Abstractive Sensations in Ice
Cymene HoweThis chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social Sciences
Chapter 2. The Biggest, the Best, the Most, the Last: Creating Valuable and Vulnerable Resources in Coastal Alaska
Danielle DiNovelli-Lang and Karen Hébert
Chapter 3. Timescaping the Arctic with Real-Time Data: Challenges for Fishing and Oil Interests
Vidar Hepsø and Elena Parmiggiani
Chapter 4. Wild Lands, Remote Edges: Formations and Abstractions in Greenland’s Resource Zones
Mark Nuttall
Chapter 5. Forging Off-World Frontiers: Chinese Steel and Arctic Iron
Mia M. Bennett
Chapter 6. Constructing and Contesting Temporalities in the Mackenzie Gas Project
Carly Dokis
Chapter 7. Material Unconscious of the Earth: Extractive Ontology and the Invisible War in Siberia
Oxana Timofeeva
Chapter 8. Representation Without Resemblance: Graphical Expression in Hydrocarbon Industry
Arthur Mason
Afterword: Arctic Abstractions
Michael J. Watts
This chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social Sciences
Index
Arctic Abstractive Industry
Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North
Edited by Arthur Mason
Afterword by Michael J. Watts
192 pages, 15 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80073-468-5 Hb Published (April 2022)
eISBN 978-1-80539-447-1 eBook