Cryo-History: Narratives of Ice and the Emerging Arctic Humanities

Sörlin, Sverker

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17602-4_24

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“…With the current retreatment 50 rate of ice as one of the Earth's elements, a 'cryo-historical' moment has been reached, caused by human 51 influence (Sörlin, 2015). Rising temperatures and reduced sea ice in the Arctic Ocean have strong 52…”

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Dendro-provenancing of Arctic driftwood

Hellmann

Tegel

Geyer

et al. 2017

Quaternary Science Reviews

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29Arctic driftwood represents a unique proxy archive at the interface of marine and terrestrial 30 environments, which will likely gain in importance under predicted global climate change. Well-31 replicated, circumpolar network analyses that systematically investigate species-specific origin areas, 32 transport routes and deposition characteristics of Arctic driftwood, are, however, still missing. Here, we 33 compare tree-ring width (TRW) measurements of 2,412 pine, larch and spruce driftwood samples from 34

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Dendro-provenancing of Arctic driftwood

Hellmann

Tegel

Geyer

et al. 2017

Quaternary Science Reviews

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“…As climate histories of Russia mature, the continued study of the social life in the cold stands as a promising thread for improving our understanding of the full scope of climate's influence on past human experience. Speaking more globally, Pey‐Yi Chu and Andrew Stuhl have also encouraged a stronger focus on the cold in teaching and researching world environmental history (Chu & Stuhl, ), Sverker Sörlin and Mark Carey have promoted the ice as a topic for humanists (Carey, ; Sörlin, ), Ronald Doel has led a team that explored the transnational history of the geophysical and climatological sciences of the Arctic (Doel, Wråkberg, & Zeller, ), and Adrian Howkins has devoted significant attention to the history of climate in Antarctica (Howkins, ). Throughout much of Russia even outside of the north, cycles of cold have also been an enduring feature of the climate.…”

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Climate history of Russia and the Soviet Union

Bruno

2018

WIREs Climate Change

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Russia and the Soviet Union bear great significance for global climate history, but scholarship on this region is still only beginning to develop as a field. While the historiographies of other geographical locations have matured over the past decade, works concerning Russia thus far have appeared in a piecemeal and somewhat disconnected fashion, not yet cohering in a systematic way. Instead, there exist several insightful threads in the environmental history literature on climate. Scholars have examined the history of climate science in Russia, extending from the research of the Academy of Sciences in the eighteenth century to the global thinking about climate change in the late twentieth century. Social scientists have explored the historical roots of Russia's contemporary climate policy. Disasters related to climate have long attracted the attention of historians, though newer works are more in tune with contemporary scholarship on vulnerability and risk. There has also been movement to analyze the varied experiences of the cold in Russia over the long haul. Making an asset out of its apparent lower stage of development, the field of Russian climate history has an opportunity to directly enter advanced scholarly conversations by focusing on the ubiquitous human experiences with climate. Doing so could allow Russian climate history to acquire a position as an innovator among global climate histories. This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > World Historical Perspectives

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“…This perspective appears consistently in public discourse, from media to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But the 'ice is just ice' conceptualization contrasts sharply with conclusions by researchers such as Cruikshank (2005), who asks if glaciers listen, Orlove et al (2008b), who analyze the cultural framing of glaciers, Carey (2007), who sees an endangered species narrative applied to glaciers, Jackson (2015), who exposes how glaciers are depicted as ruins, and Sörlin (2015), who refers to the present as a cryo-historical moment because 'ice has become historical, i.e. that ice is an element of change and thus something that can be considered as part of society and of societal concern' (Sörlin, 2015: 327).…”

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Glaciers, gender, and science

Carey¹,

Jackson

Antonello

et al. 2016

Progress in Human Geography

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Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change. However, the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers – particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge – remain understudied. This paper thus proposes a feminist glaciology framework with four key components: 1) knowledge producers; (2) gendered science and knowledge; (3) systems of scientific domination; and (4) alternative representations of glaciers. Merging feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology, the feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power, and epistemologies in dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions.

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Cryo-History: Narratives of Ice and the Emerging Arctic Humanities

Cited by 19 publications

References 37 publications

Dendro-provenancing of Arctic driftwood

Dendro-provenancing of Arctic driftwood

Climate history of Russia and the Soviet Union

Glaciers, gender, and science

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