Strategic Arctic science: national interests in building natural knowledge – interwar era through the Cold War

Doel, Ronald E.; Friedman, Robert Marc; Lajus, Julia; Sörlin, Sverker; Wråkberg, Urban

doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2013.12.004

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“…Their work covered a half-century, from the 1920s through to the 1970s, with a concentration around the peak of the Cold War in the 1950s and the 1957-1958 International Geophysical Year. This was a period when Fennoscandia and the North Atlantic, including Greenland, attracted a great deal of interest for a combination of strategic and scientific reasons (Doel et al 2014;Doel, Harper, and Heymann 2016). A cross-cutting theme of the research was climate related, aimed at explaining and describing changes in climate and its impact.…”

Section: Environmental Objects and The Proto-anthropocenementioning

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Synchronizing Earthly Timescales: Ice, Pollen, and the Making of Proto-Anthropocene Knowledge in the North Atlantic Region

Sörlin

Isberg

2020

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Section: Environmental Objects and The Proto-anthropocenementioning

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Synchronizing Earthly Timescales: Ice, Pollen, and the Making of Proto-Anthropocene Knowledge in the North Atlantic Region

Sörlin

Isberg

2020

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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“…As Andy Bruno writes, nature was not a passive object of such dominance, but on the contrary, was actively involved in the process of establishing the new Soviet power (Bruno, 2016, pp.6-10). Rapid industrialisation of the country demanded Arctic resources, which, in turn, played a geopolitical role in representing the Soviet state and Soviet environmental knowledge at a transcontinental level (Doel, Friedman, Lajus, Sörlin, & Wråkberg, 2014). The development of the North (osvoenie Severa) progressed not only along industrial lines but also in tandem with multiple geographical, biological and even historical projects.…”

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Environmental encounters: Woolly mammoth, indigenous communities and metropolitan scientists in the Soviet Arctic

Arzyutov

2019

Polar Record

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This article investigates how in the Soviet Arctic researchers and indigenous communities searched and understood the mammoth before and during the Cold War. Based on a vast number of published and unpublished sources as well as interviews with scholars and reindeer herders, this article demonstrates that the mammoth, as a paleontological find fusing together features of extinct and extant species, plays an in-between role among various environmental epistemologies. The author refers to moments of interactions among these different actors as "environmental encounters", which comprise and engage with the physical, political, social and cultural environments of the Arctic. These encounters shape the temporal stabilisations of knowledge which enable the mammoth to live its post-extinct life. This article combines approaches from environmental history and anthropology, history of science and indigenous studies showing the social vitality of a "fossil object".

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“…The circumpolar countries' modernist agendas not only exerted considerable influence on ethnographic research, but also emphasized certain topics and representational styles in Arctic scholarship (Bravo & Sörlin, 2002;Doel, Friedman, Lajus, Sörlin, & Wråkberg, 2014), while avoiding or repressing other themes and styles. To take the Soviet Union as an example, its ideology of progress predefined a particular temporal framing of research, whereby religious practice and kinship were presented in past tense and carried negative connotations of backwardness and underdevelopment, while economy, education, and technological innovation were described in present and future tense and attained positive connotations.…”

Section: The Emergence Of Gender As a Topic Of Study In The Circumpolmentioning

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Introduction: feminist approaches and the study of gender in Arctic social sciences

Vladimirova

Habeck

2018

Polar Geography

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Notwithstanding the gradual intensification of contacts across the different parts of the circumpolar North, research on gender in the Arctic is still a fragmented fieldnot the least because of language barriers. The four cases presented here, all from the Far North of Russia, are intended to complement research on gender in North America and the Nordic countries. We also hope they will encourage wider use of feminist approaches in geography and social sciences. After a first overview of how gender emerged as a topic of study in the circumpolar North, the introduction will focus on gender-specific forms of mobility and immobility. Next, gender will be discussed in relation to identity and intersectionality under colonial and post-colonial conditions. Thereafter, Feminist Political Ecology and other theoretical directions are portrayed as theoretical approaches to studying gendered economies. Such contextualization of the study of gender in the Arctic prepares the ground for short summaries of the four papers in this special issue, to be concluded by a brief statement about future directions of research. Particularly the concept of intersectionality is favored as a useful basis for examining gender, indigeneity, and economic differences.

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Strategic Arctic science: national interests in building natural knowledge – interwar era through the Cold War

Cited by 43 publications

References 8 publications

Synchronizing Earthly Timescales: Ice, Pollen, and the Making of Proto-Anthropocene Knowledge in the North Atlantic Region

Synchronizing Earthly Timescales: Ice, Pollen, and the Making of Proto-Anthropocene Knowledge in the North Atlantic Region

Environmental encounters: Woolly mammoth, indigenous communities and metropolitan scientists in the Soviet Arctic

Introduction: feminist approaches and the study of gender in Arctic social sciences

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