Description:
Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.
Brief description:
Arthur Mason is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His previous edited volume is Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas, with co-editors Hannah Appel and Michael Watts (Cornell, 2015).
Review Quotes:
"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