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Weirding Landscapes = Arctic Glacier Extinction and Monsters of the Anthropocene

This open access book investigates human-environment relations in the context of the anthropocenic Arctic. Through an archaeological and anthropological study of landscape, it wields “weirding” – a creative mode of engagement with the world – as a means of coming to terms with the stranger, experiential dimensions of a planet populated by diverse non-human entities often bearing monstrous characteristics. Such entities are exemplified by climate change itself, at once human-induced and a force of its own volition that maintains an elusive “presence” as a co-inhabitant of the Anthropocene. The book focuses on the landscape of Ritničohkka, a fjell in Sápmi, Finnish Lapland. Ritničohkka is erstwhile home to a diminutive “glacier”, whose “weird”, anomalous characteristics crowned the fjell until it several years ago melted into history. Taking a broadly autoethnographic approach, it considers perceptions of, and affective experiences in, this rough and relatively remote, “otherworldly” environment, discussing diverse ways of encountering and relating to the Arctic in the context of scientific fieldwork.

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: Palgrave Macmillan Cham., 2025

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XXVIII, 200 hlm; ill., lamp.,

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English

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9783031850165

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Sociology
Anthropology
Environmental Policy
Human Geography
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This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access A novel experimental volume that spans topics of landscape, history, archaeology, anthropology, and mind An exploratory assessment of a multitude of human and non-human aspects and attachments to the remote Arctic A unique interdisciplinary approach to Northern landscapes that speaks to multiple backgrounds and approaches

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Vesa-Pekka Herva , Aki Hakonen , Roger Norum , Oula Seitsonen , Markus Fjellström

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-85016-5

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85016-5

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