Arctic Abstractive Industry

Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North

Arthur Mason editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Published:5th Jul '24

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Arctic Abstractive Industry cover

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.

“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

ISBN: 9781805393382

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192 pages