Introduction: The Arctic as an Archive

Conceptualizing the North

“…Even though literary studies still dominate humanities research on the north, anthologies such as Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic (Mackenzie and Stenport, 2015), Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North: Climate Change and Nature in Art (Hedin and Gremaud 2018), and Arctic Archives: Ice, Memory and Entropy (Frank and Jakobsen 2019) show that climate change and the Anthropocene, both as a geological epoch and as a framework to think with, are expanding the field of research. The interest in ice, as a specific matter, place of being, and metaphor, stimulates academic discussions and makes us aware not only of the north, but of the polar regions' importance in the contemporary situation.…”