Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Approaching Critical Northern Issues Critically - Sarah Jaquette Ray and Kevin Maier
Part I: The Vanishing North?
1. Whose Arctic? Who Cares?: Place, Responsibility, and Elegiac Purpose in the Eskimo Curlew Extinction Narrative - Elspeth Tulloch
2. Ravens’ World: Ecoelegy and Beyond in a Changing North - Will Elliott
3. The “Bear Who Began It” and the Metaphorics of Climate Change - Allison K. Athens
Part II: Thinking with Northern Animals
4. Indigeneity and Ecology in Iñupiaq and Faroese Whaling - Russell Fielding
5. Saving the Polar Bear and Other Objects - Kurtis Boyer
6. Bare Life and Bear Love: Masculinity, Capital, and Arctic Animals in the Nineteenth-Century North - John Miller
Part III: Notions of North and Nation: Transnational Norths
7. Northern Relations: Colonial Whaling, Climate Change, and the Inception of a Collective Identity in Northern Alaska and the Northern Atlantic - Chie Sakakibara
8. Landscapes on Hold: The Norwegian and Russian Barents Sea Coast in the New North - Janike Kampevold Larsen and Peter Hemmersam
9. Knowing Land, Quantifying Nature: Assessing Environmental Impacts in the Sahtu Region, Northwest Territories - Carly Dokis
10. Writing in the Anthropocene from the Global North to the Global South: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker - Kyndra Turner
Part III: Notions of North and Nation: Indigenous Norths
11. Surveillance and the Self: Two Sami Filmmakers Explore Indigenous and Personal Sovereignty across Sápmi “Borderlands” - Cheryl J. Fish
12. Arctic Exposure: Nature, Race, and Regional Representation in Hollywood Film - Susan Kollin
13. Understanding Landscape Change Using Oral Histories and Tlingit Place-Names - Daniel Monteith
14. Prospecting for Buried Narratives in Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve - Margot Higgins
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