The Mediated Arctic

Poetics and politics of contemporary circumpolar geographies

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Edited by Johannes Riquet

Type

Studies

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

sociology, arctic

Publishing date

2024

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 344 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-5261-7401-7

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Book Presentation:
The mediated Arctic analyses the multiple relations between geography and cultural production that have long shaped – and are currently transforming – the circumpolar world. It explores how twenty-first-century cultural practitioners imagine and poeticise various elements of Arctic geography, and in doing so negotiate pressing environmental, (geo)political, and social concerns. From the plasmatic force of ice in Disney’s Frozen films to the spatial vocabulary of circumpolar Indigenous hip hop, it addresses Arctic geographical imaginaries in a wide range of media, including literature, cinema, comic books, music videos, and cartographic art. The book brings together a plurality of voices from within and outside the circumpolar North, both in terms of the works analysed and in its own collaborative scholarly practice. The book bridges Indigenous and Southern mediations of the Arctic and combines different epistemologies to do justice to these imaginaries in their diversity.

About the Author:
Johannes Riquet is Professor of English Literature at Tampere University

See the publisher website: Manchester University Press