Competing Arctic Futures

Nina Wormbs is Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. She has worked on media history and recently on environmental history and climate change. She co-edited, with Christensen and Nilsson, Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change and contributed to the edited collection The New Arctic.

• Chapter 1 Introduction Back to the Futures of an Uncertain Arctic; Nina Wormbs.- Chapter 2 Constructing Arctic Energy Resources: The Case of the Canadian North, 1921-1980; Paul Warde.- Chapter 3 Extracting the Future in Svalbard; Dag Avango.- Chapter 4 “Red herring”: The Unpredictable Soviet Fish and Soviet Power in the 1930s; Julia Lajus.- Chapter 5 A Reindeer Herding people? Political Visions of Sami Futures; Patrik Lantto.- Chapter 6 Creating a Safe Operating Space for Business: The Changing Role of Arctic Governance; Annika E. Nilsson.- Chapter 7 Voicing Bipolar Futures: The Antarctic Treaty System and Arctic Governance in Historical Perspective; Lize-Marié van der Watt and Peder Roberts.- Chapter 8 Political regime influences in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region; Alexander Gnatenko and Andrian Vlakhov.- Chapter 9 The Telecoupled Arctic: Assessing Stakeholder Narratives of Non-Arctic States; Eric Paglia.- Chapter 10 Arctic Modernism: New Urbanisation Models for the Soviet Far Northin the 1960s; Ekaterina Kalemeneva.- Chapter 11 Conclusion Anthropocene Arctic: Reductionist Imaginaries of a “New North”; Sverker Sörlin.

“This volume stresses that it is the responsibility of academics – especially social scientists and those working in the Arctic – to tell stories that reveal how if people can change the climate, the voices they raise, the resources they render (and don’t render) and the governance they enact can also lead to more just and equitable outcomes.” (Mia M Bennett, The Polar Journal, October 17, 2019)