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).

• List of FiguresPreface: From Northern Lights to Fluorescent lightsArthur MasonIntroduction: Arctic Late Industrialism: Extracting Value through AbstractionArthur MasonThis chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social SciencesChapter 1. To Melt Away: Abstractive Sensations in IceCymene HoweThis chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social SciencesChapter 2. The Biggest, the Best, the Most, the Last: Creating Valuable and Vulnerable Resources in Coastal AlaskaDanielle DiNovelli-Lang and Karen HébertChapter 3. Timescaping the Arctic with Real-Time Data: Challenges for Fishing and Oil InterestsVidar Hepsø and Elena ParmiggianiChapter 4. Wild Lands, Remote Edges: Formations and Abstractions in Greenland’s Resource ZonesMark NuttallChapter 5. Forging Off-World Frontiers: Chinese Steel and Arctic IronMia M. BennettChapter 6. Constructing and Contesting Temporalities in the Mackenzie Gas ProjectCarly DokisChapter 7. Material Unconscious of the Earth: Extractive Ontology and the Invisible War in SiberiaOxana TimofeevaChapter 8. Representation Without Resemblance: Graphical Expression in Hydrocarbon IndustryArthur MasonAfterword: Arctic AbstractionsMichael J. WattsThis chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social SciencesIndex

“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

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).

• List of FiguresPreface: From Northern Lights to Fluorescent lightsArthur MasonIntroduction: Arctic Late Industrialism: Extracting Value through AbstractionArthur MasonThis chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social SciencesChapter 1. To Melt Away: Abstractive Sensations in IceCymene HoweThis chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social SciencesChapter 2. The Biggest, the Best, the Most, the Last: Creating Valuable and Vulnerable Resources in Coastal AlaskaDanielle DiNovelli-Lang and Karen HébertChapter 3. Timescaping the Arctic with Real-Time Data: Challenges for Fishing and Oil InterestsVidar Hepsø and Elena ParmiggianiChapter 4. Wild Lands, Remote Edges: Formations and Abstractions in Greenland’s Resource ZonesMark NuttallChapter 5. Forging Off-World Frontiers: Chinese Steel and Arctic IronMia M. BennettChapter 6. Constructing and Contesting Temporalities in the Mackenzie Gas ProjectCarly DokisChapter 7. Material Unconscious of the Earth: Extractive Ontology and the Invisible War in SiberiaOxana TimofeevaChapter 8. Representation Without Resemblance: Graphical Expression in Hydrocarbon IndustryArthur MasonAfterword: Arctic AbstractionsMichael J. WattsThis chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social SciencesIndex

“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

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).

• List of FiguresPreface: From Northern Lights to Fluorescent lightsArthur MasonIntroduction: Arctic Late Industrialism: Extracting Value through AbstractionArthur MasonThis chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social SciencesChapter 1. To Melt Away: Abstractive Sensations in IceCymene HoweThis chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social SciencesChapter 2. The Biggest, the Best, the Most, the Last: Creating Valuable and Vulnerable Resources in Coastal AlaskaDanielle DiNovelli-Lang and Karen HébertChapter 3. Timescaping the Arctic with Real-Time Data: Challenges for Fishing and Oil InterestsVidar Hepsø and Elena ParmiggianiChapter 4. Wild Lands, Remote Edges: Formations and Abstractions in Greenland’s Resource ZonesMark NuttallChapter 5. Forging Off-World Frontiers: Chinese Steel and Arctic IronMia M. BennettChapter 6. Constructing and Contesting Temporalities in the Mackenzie Gas ProjectCarly DokisChapter 7. Material Unconscious of the Earth: Extractive Ontology and the Invisible War in SiberiaOxana TimofeevaChapter 8. Representation Without Resemblance: Graphical Expression in Hydrocarbon IndustryArthur MasonAfterword: Arctic AbstractionsMichael J. WattsThis chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social SciencesIndex

“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