ABSTRACT
Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, it supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world encompassing an array of representations, imaginings, and constructions. By examining a broad range of visual forms, media and forms such as art, film, graphic novels, maps, media, and photography, the book advances current debates about visual culture. The book enriches contemporary theories of the visual taking the Arctic as a spatial entity and also as a mode of exploring contemporary and historical visual practices, including imaginary constructions of the North. Original contributions include case studies from all the countries along the Arctic shore, with Russian material occupying a large section due to the country’s impact on the region
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|57 pages
Visual Poetics and Historic Cartographies
chapter 2|19 pages
The Arctic That Was
part II|78 pages
Mobile Visuality and Visual Storytelling
chapter 4|18 pages
The Winners of the Globe?
chapter 6|22 pages
Come to Lapland!
part III|58 pages
The Politics of Arctic Visuality
chapter 9|18 pages
Red Arctic?
part IV|62 pages
Visual Worlds of the Russian Arctic
chapter 12|20 pages
Women Look North
part V|63 pages
Visual Documentation and Ethnography