Kommande
Samhälle & debatt
Weirding Landscapes
Vesa-Pekka Herva • Aki Hakonen • Roger Norum • Oula Seitsonen • Markus Fjellstrm
Inbunden
1299:-
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 Ritniohkka, a fjell in Spmi, Finnish Lapland. Ritniohkka 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.
- Format: Inbunden
- ISBN: 9783031850158
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 138
- Utgivningsdatum: 2025-05-15
- Förlag: Palgrave Macmillan