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Risky Futures Published December 2024 Risky Futures Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North Ulturgasheva, O. & Bodenhorn, B. (eds)

Examining the intersections between environmental conditions and geopolitical tensions, this book brings together a unique combination of authors who are local practitioners and international researchers, and considers the situations of environmental calamity and socio-economic risks faced by small populations.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

Pb £15.95 Arctic Abstractive Industry Published July 2024 Arctic Abstractive Industry Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North Mason, A. (ed)

Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

Pb £19.95 Russian Cold, The Published February 2025 The Russian Cold Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow Herzberg, J., Renner, A., & Schierle, I. (eds)

Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the nation, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

Pb £27.95 Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities Published March 2018 Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change Orttung, R. (ed)

Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain.

Subjects: Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sustainable Development Goals

Pb £27.95 Living on Thin Ice Published May 2020 Living on Thin Ice The Gwich'in Natives of Alaska Dinero, S. C.

Using quantitative and qualitative data gathered since the turn of the millennium, this volume offers an interdisciplinary evaluation of social and economic changes amongst the Gwich’in Natives of Alaska.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Urban Studies

Pb £27.95 Hunters, Predators & Prey Published August 2016 Hunters, Predators and Prey Inuit Perceptions of Animals Laugrand, F. & Oosten, J.

Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. Laugrand and Oosten examine the roles of animals from the small and non-social, such as the raven, to those considered fellow hunters, the bear and the dog. “Prey par excellence,” or caribou, seals, and the whale, are discussed in conjunction with the renewal of whale hunting.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Pb £31.95 About the Hearth Published October 2015 About the Hearth Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North Anderson, D. G., Wishart, R. P., & Vaté, V. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Museum Studies Heritage Studies

Pb £27.95 Hunters in the Barrens Published December 2010 Hunters in the Barrens The Naskapi on the Edge of the White Man's World Henriksen, G.


 

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Pb £23.95 I Dreamed the Animals Published November 2021 I Dreamed the Animals Kaniuekutat: The Life of an Innu Hunter Henriksen, G.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Pb £27.95 Names & Nunavut Published December 2008 Names and Nunavut Culture and Identity in the Inuit Homeland Alia, V.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb £27.95 Cultivating Arctic Landscapes Published January 2004 Cultivating Arctic Landscapes Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North Anderson, D. G. & Nuttall, M. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Pb £27.95