After Ice: Cold Humanities for a Warming Planet by Rafico Ruiz, Paula Schönach, Rob Shields, (editors) ISBN 9780774869362, 9780774869386, 9780774869393, 0774869364, 0774869380, 0774869399 instant download

After Ice: Cold Humanities for a Warming Planet by Rafico Ruiz, Paula Schönach, Rob Shields, (editors) ISBN 9780774869362, 9780774869386, 9780774869393, 0774869364, 0774869380, 0774869399 instant download

This collection examines the implications of the end of consistent freezing and thawing cycles. The cryosphere traditionally refers to areas where water is solid, such as places on the planet of snow, ice, and permafrost. Today, a new cryosphere is emerging that encompasses experiences generated by the uncertain horizons of melting ice, and whose future is increasingly determined by human behaviour. In this context, After Ice gathers experts in a wide range of disciplines – environmental history, game studies, Indigenous studies – to articulate aspects of the cold humanities. They investigate ice and its dynamic properties as a foundational element of Indigenous communities in the Arctic, as a commodity with technological and political value, and as a reflection of environmental change and the passage of time.

This original, thought-provoking exploration envisions ice not only as a phase of water but also as a milieu for semantic and embodied sensemaking. It asks us to consider how to define, describe, and materially characterize our warming world.

Researchers and students of the environmental humanities, media and cultural studies, environmental history, northern studies, and new materialisms will find this an important addition to their libraries.