Critical Norths

Download or read book Critical Norths written by Sarah Jaquette Ray and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching Critical Northern Issues Critically / Sarah Jaquette Ray and Kevin Maier -- Whose Arctic? Who Cares? : Place, Responsibility, and Elegiac Purpose in the Eskimo Curlew Extinction Narrative / Elspeth Tulloch-- Raven's World : Eco-elegy and Beyond in a Changing North / Will Elliott -- "The Bear Who Began It" and the Metaphorics of Climate Change / Allison Athens -- Indigeneity and Ecology in I'upiat and Faroese Whaling / Russell Fielding -- Saving Polar Bears and Other Objects / Kurtis Boyer -- Bare Life and Bear Love : Masculinity, Capital and Arctic Animals in the Nineteenth-Century North / John Miller -- Northern Relations : Colonial Whaling, Climate Change, and the Inception of a Collective Identity in Northern Alaska and the Northern Atlantic / Chie Sakakibara -- Landscapes on Hold : The Norwegian and Russian Barents Sea Coast in the New North / Peter Hemmersen and Janike Kampevold -- Knowing Land, Quantifying Nature : Assessing Environmental Impacts in the Sahtu Region, Northwest Territories / Carly Dokis -- Writing in the Anthropocene from the Global North to the Global South : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Richard Power's The Echo Maker / Kyndra Turner -- Surveillance and the Self : Two Sami Filmmakers Explore Indigenous and Personal Sovereignty Crossing Sami Borderlands / Cheryl Fish -- Arctic Exposure : Nature, Race, and Regional Representation in Hollywood Film / Susan Kollin -- Understanding Landscape Change Using Oral Histories and Tlingit Place Names / Dan Monteith -- Prospecting for Buried Narratives in Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve / Margot Higgins