Arctic Abstractive Industry

Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-338-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

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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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.7.2024
Reihe/Serie	Studies in the Circumpolar North
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Bergbau
ISBN-10	1-80539-338-3 / 1805393383
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-338-2 / 9781805393382
Zustand	Neuware