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Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North

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Studies in the Circumpolar North



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Arctic Abstractive Industry

Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North

Edited by Arthur Mason

Afterword by Michael J. Watts

192 pages, 15 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80073-468-5 $120.00/£92.00 / Hb / Published (April 2022)

ISBN  978-1-80539-338-2 $29.95/£23.95 / Pb / Published (July 2024)

eISBN 978-1-80539-447-1 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800734685


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“This book is timely in bringing together scholars working on extractive industries and related themes in the Arctic, including fisheries, fossil fuels, and minerals development, climate change and the like in the US, Canada, Russia, and Greenland.” • Thomas F. Thornton, University of Alaska Southeast

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Through diverse engagements with natural resource extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, contributors to this volume apprehend Arctic resource regimes through the concept of abstraction. Abstraction refers to the creation of new material substances and cultural values by detaching parts from existing substances and values. The abstractive process differs from the activity of extractive industries by its focus on the conceptual resources that conceal processes of exploitation associated with extraction. The study of abstraction can thus help us attune to the formal operations that make appropriations of value possible while disclosing the politics of extraction and of its representation.

Arthur Mason is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His previous edited volume is Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas, with co-editors Hannah Appel and Michael Watts (Cornell, 2015).

Open Access content

Introduction: Arctic Late Industrialism: Extracting Value through Abstraction
Arthur Mason
This chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social Sciences

Chapter 1. To Melt Away: Abstractive Sensations in Ice
Cymene Howe
This chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social Sciences

Afterword: Arctic Abstractions
Michael J. Watts
This chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social Sciences

Subject: Anthropology (General)Environmental Studies (General)Development StudiesSustainable Development Goals
Area: Circumpolar


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