Arctic Archives : : Ice, Memory and Entropy /

Arctic Archives : : Ice, Memory and Entropy / / ed. by Kjetil A. Jakobsen, Susi K. Frank.

This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the anthropocene.Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means to investigate it not only as a place of human history and memory - of Arctic exploring, 'c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2019 Part 2
Funder:
Thyssen
MitwirkendeR:
Bloom, Lisa E.,
Ebeling, Knut,
Ernst, Wolfgang,
Frank, Susi K.,
Hersko, Judit,
Hänsgen, Sabine,
Jakobsen, Kjetil A.,
Larsen, Janike K.,
Lund, Harald Østgaard,
Miyazaki, Asako,
Penskaya, Elena,
Ryall, Anka,
Schimanski, Johan,
Spieker, Sven,
Spring, Ulrike,
Toepfer, Georg,
Vedder, Ulrike,
HerausgeberIn:
Frank, Susi K.,
Jakobsen, Kjetil A.,
:
Thyssen
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 194
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Physical Description:1 online resource (318 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: The Arctic as an Archive
  • WHAT IS A ›NATURAL ARCHIVE‹?
  • On Similarities and Differences between Cultural and Natural Archives
  • Archival Metahistory and Inhuman Memory
  • The Melting Archive: The Arctic and the Archives' Others
  • Landscapes as Archives of the Future?
  • Memory in the Anthropocene: Notes on Slow Archives and Melting Glaciers
  • PERFORMING ARCTIC ARCHIVES
  • A Fragment of Future History
  • The Absence of the Arctic
  • The Snowfield as an Archive of Soviet Underground Performance Art
  • Excerpts from Anna Schwartz's Archive
  • Gender in the Twentieth-Century Polar Archive
  • An Arctic Archive for the Anthropocene
  • ICE - MESSAGE(S) OF A MEMORY MEDIUM
  • From Prague to Greenland: Ice Memories in Libuše Moníková's Novel Treibeis (Drift Ice)
  • Myth of Preservation: Images of Ice, Snow and Glaciers as Metaphors for Memory in Post- Holocaust Literature and Art (Sebald, Celan, Bałka)
  • Investigating the Labоratory of Popular Arctic Narrative in Russian Literature from the 1930s to the 1950s
  • Archives of Knowledge and Endangered Objects in the Anthropocene
  • Natural Archives as Counter Archives: Gulag Literature from Witness to Postmemory
  • Contributors

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