Ice geographies : the colonial politics of race and indigeneity in the Arctic / Jen Rose Smith.

Main entry:

Smith, Jen Rose, 1989- author.

Title & Author:

Ice geographies : the colonial politics of race and indigeneity in the Arctic / Jen Rose Smith.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
©2025

Description:

xviii, 227 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Series:

Elements

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Careful guessing -- Ice as analytic -- Ice as data -- Ice as imaginary -- Ice as terrain -- Ice among the stars -- Ice as soft -- Ice and emptiness.

Summary:

"Ice Geographies explores the multivalent qualities of Arctic ice within the North American cultural imaginary. The liminal nature of ice-a substance which cannot easily be classified as land or water, living or nonliving, imaginary or material-led it to be enlisted in myriad colonial projects. During the Enlightenment, ice served as an index of Indigenous people's inferiority. Arctic landscapes were represented as an uninhabitable no man's land compared to temperate European climates. In the contemporary moment, ice indexes a disappearing world from which Indigenous peoples are surreptitiously erased because of their cultural and geographic proximity to ice. Weaving together historical and contemporary archives dealing with ice's scientific and literary significance to the colonial imaginary, Jen Rose Smith shows simultaneously how ice has been central to how we understand the planet and that ice exceeds any colonial, racializing projects imposed onto it"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781478031772 paperback
1478031778 paperback
9781478028536 hardcover
147802853X hardcover
electronic book
9781478060758

Subject:

Ice Social aspects.
Ice Political aspects.
Indigenous peoples Arctic regions Social life and customs.
Arctic peoples Social life and customs.
Climatic changes Social aspects Arctic regions.
Human geography Arctic regions.
Ice in literature.
Glace Aspect social.
Glace Aspect politique.
Peuples de l'Arctique Mœurs et coutumes.
Climat Changements Arctique Aspect social.

Added entries:

Elements (Duke University Press)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321492
Call No.: 321492
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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