Ice geographies : the colonial politics of race and indigeneity in the Arctic / Jen Rose Smith.
| Author/creator | Smith, Jen Rose, 1989- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xviii, 227 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Elements Elements (Duke University Press) ^A1398490 |
| Contents | Careful guessing -- Ice as analytic -- Ice as data -- Ice as imaginary -- Ice as terrain -- Ice among the stars -- Ice as soft -- Ice and emptiness. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Smith, Jennifer Rose, 1989- Ice geographies. Durham : Duke University Press, 2025 9781478060758 |
| LCCN | 2024033407 |
| ISBN | 9781478031772 paperback |
| ISBN | 1478031778 paperback |
| ISBN | 9781478028536 hardcover |
| ISBN | 147802853X hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000218728 |
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