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Up Here

The North at the Center of the World

Julie Decker editor Kirsten J Anderson editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Washington Press

Published:3rd Oct '16

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Up Here connects art, science, and environment at a time when unprecedented climate change requires unprecedented innovation. The contributors explore the ideas of "wilderness" and "remoteness," the lessons to be learned from cold places and indigenous knowledge, and how the Arctic is a signal for global change.

The North is a complex place that is beautiful, moody, and anything but untouched. The Arctic, part of the international North that is pivotal to the world because of climate change, is no longer a frontier of the past. The same interest in the North that preoccupied artists and explorers of the Romantic era has returned greater than ever, but rather than merely depicting its grandeur, today’s artists, scientists, and explorers question the future of the landscape.

Up Here connects art, science, and environment at a time when unprecedented climate change requires unprecedented innovation. The contributors explore the ideas of “wilderness” and “remoteness,” the lessons to be learned from cold places and indigenous knowledge, and how the Arctic is a signal for global change.

"This anthology offers a suite of essential knowledge and perspectives while demonstrating the kind of interdisciplinary approach necessary for resilient, rich life and culture in the oncoming future. . . . The hardback book—as gorgeous an object as it is a read—is recommended for the North’s ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ alike. Both readerships will gain an improved understanding of one of the planet’s least-known, fastest-changing, and perhaps most fraught place."

-- Jeremy Pataky * Anchorage Press *

"[W]e can hope that through publications like Up Here, readers will gain insight into how we Northerners view ouf place in the world...and hopfully be complled to participate in the fight to protect it."

* Arctic Journ

ISBN: 9780295999081

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1043g

200 pages