"Extreme Weather and the Energy Metabolism of the City"
The author uses a critical realist perspective to investigate relations between social constructions and the dynamics of nature.
The author uses a critical realist perspective to investigate relations between social constructions and the dynamics of nature.
Examines the cultural history of English explorations of Earth’s polar regions.
Margret Grebowicz argues that James Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), in particular the time-lapse films of glaciers receding, presents a unique example of what Guy Debord calls the ”tautological” nature of spectacle, its capacity to serve as its own evidence at the same time as it becomes a mode of relation among people.
Alessandro Antonello and Mark Carey examine how the practices involved in drilling, analyzing, discussing, and using ice cores for both science and broader climate or environmental policies and cultures take part in constituting the temporalities of the global environment.
Northern Canada’s distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary political, military, scientific and economic affairs have fueled recent scholarly discussion. At the same time, both the media and the wider public have shown increasing interest in the region. This collection extends our understanding of the environmental history of northern Canada—clarifying both its practice and promise, and providing critical perspectives on current public debates.