Overview

Through diverse engagements with natural resource extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, contributors to this volume apprehend Arctic resource regimes through the concept of abstraction. Abstraction refers to the creation of new material substances and cultural values by detaching parts from existing substances and values. The abstractive process differs from the activity of extractive industries by its focus on the conceptual resources that conceal processes of exploitation associated with extraction. The study of abstraction can thus help us attune to the formal operations that make appropriations of value possible while disclosing the politics of extraction and of its representation.

Full Product Details

Author:   Arthur Mason
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805393382

ISBN 10:   1805393383
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   05 July 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

List of Figures 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

Reviews

“This book is timely in bringing together scholars working on extractive industries and related themes in the Arctic, including fisheries, fossil fuels, and minerals development, climate change and the like in the US, Canada, Russia, and Greenland.” • Thomas F. Thornton, University of Alaska Southeast

Author Information

Arthur Mason is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His previous edited volume is Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas, with co-editors Hannah Appel and Michael Watts (Cornell, 2015).

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions