Arctic Archives: Ice, Memory and Entropy

Published by transcript Verlag 2019

Arctic Archives

Ice, Memory and Entropy

Edited by: Susi K. Frank and Kjetil A. Jakobsen
Funded by: Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung

Volume 194 in the series Edition Kulturwissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839446560

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About this book

This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the anthropocene.
Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means to investigate it not only as a place of human history and memory - of Arctic exploring, ›conquering‹ and colonizing -, but to take into account also the specific environmental conditions of the circumpolar region: ice and permafrost. These have allowed a huge natural archive to emerge, offering rich sources for natural scientists and historians alike.
Examining the debate on the notion of (›natural‹) archive, the cultural semantics and historicity of the meaning of concepts like ›warm‹, ›cold‹, ›freezing‹ and ›melting‹ as well as various works of literature, art and science on Arctic topics, this volume brings together literary scholars, historians of knowledge and philosophy, art historians, media theorists and archivologists.

Author / Editor information

Susi K. Frank is Professor of East Slavic literatures and cultures at Humboldt University Berlin. Her research fields are geopoetology; literature/art and (visual) memory; literature and literary politics in (post-)imperial contexts (Russia and Soviet Union).
Kjetil A. Jakobsen is Professor of history at Nord Universitet Bodo. From 2011 to 2014 he was Henrik Steffens professor at Humboldt University Berlin.

Reviews

»Boasting an impressive collection of literary scholars, theorists, and scientists from several disciplinary backgrounds, this thoroughly researched and engagingly written volume provides an excellent foundation for future work on an intriguing and worthwhile subject.«
Matthew S. Wiseman, H-Net-Reviews, 1 (2021)
Besprochen in:
Zitty, 23 (2019), Claudia Wahjudi

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction: The Arctic as an Archive Susi K. Frank and Kjetil A. Jakobsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
WHAT IS A ›NATURAL ARCHIVE‹?
On Similarities and Differences between Cultural and Natural Archives Georg Toepfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Archival Metahistory and Inhuman Memory Wolfgang Ernst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
The Melting Archive: The Arctic and the Archives’ Others Ulrike Spring and Johan Schimanski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Landscapes as Archives of the Future? Janike K. Larsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Memory in the Anthropocene: Notes on Slow Archives and Melting Glaciers Sven Spieker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
PERFORMING ARCTIC ARCHIVES
A Fragment of Future History Gabriel Tarde’s Archival Utopia Kjetil A. Jakobsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
The Absence of the Arctic Photographic Archives of the Arctic Knut Ebeling and Harald Østgaard Lund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
The Snowfield as an Archive of Soviet Underground Performance Art Sabine Hänsgen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Excerpts from Anna Schwartz’s Archive Judit Hersko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Gender in the Twentieth-Century Polar Archive Anka Ryall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
An Arctic Archive for the Anthropocene The Svalbard Global Seed Vault Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
ICE – MESSAGE(S) OF A MEMORY MEDIUM
From Prague to Greenland: Ice Memories in Libuše Moníková’s Novel Treibeis (Drift Ice) Ulrike Vedder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Myth of Preservation: Images of Ice, Snow and Glaciers as Metaphors for Memory in Post- Holocaust Literature and Art (Sebald, Celan, Bałka) Asako Miyazaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Investigating the Labоratory of Popular Arctic Narrative in Russian Literature from the 1930s to the 1950s Elena Penskaya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Archives of Knowledge and Endangered Objects in the Anthropocene From Chernobyl to Polar Landscapes in the Work of Lina Selander and Amy Balkin Lisa E. Bloom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Natural Archives as Counter Archives: Gulag Literature from Witness to Postmemory Susi K. Frank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 318
Keywords: Cultural History; Eco Studies; Anthropocene; Cultural Semantics; Archaeology; Memory Culture; Nature; Human Ecology; Philosophy of History; Cultural Studies

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Published: October 27, 2019
ISBN: 9783839446560