Visual Representations of the Arctic

Markku Lehtimäki is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Turku, Finland. Arja Rosenholm is Professor of Russian Language and Culture at Tampere University, Finland. Vlad Strukov is an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, UK, and a researcher at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Russia.

• 0. Introduction: Visualising the Arctic (Markku Lehtimäki, Arja Rosenholm and Vlad Strukov)Part One: Visual poetics and historic cartographies1. Maija Ojala-Fulwood: Arctic Regions in Early Modern Maps2. Markku Lehtimäki: The Arctic That Was: Visual Poetics, Historical Narrative and Ian McGuire’s The North Water3. Lieven Ameel: Balloon Explorers, the Panorama, and the Making of an Arctic Nomos in Contemporary Fiction Part Two: Mobile visuality and visual storytelling 4. Tintti Klapuri: The Winners of the Globe? The Russian Imperial Gaze at the North in Late Nineteenth-century Travelogues5. Leena Romu: Dystopian Comics as Cautionary Tales about the Future of the Arctic 6. Elina Arminen: Come to Lapland! Changes and Continuities of Lapland Imagery in Finnish and International Travel Posters 7. Heidi Hansson and Ann-Catrine Eriksson: Cover Art and Content: Selling Arctic Crime FictionPart Three: The politics of Arctic visuality 8. Johannes Riquet: Cinema, Geopolitics, and Arctic Landscapes: The Cold Cold War in Orion’s Belt9. Klaus Dodds and Elana Wilson Rowe: Red Arctic? Affective Geopolitics and the 2007 Russian Flag-planting Incident in the Central Arctic Ocean 10. Robert A. Saunders: Arctic Bodies: Sights/Sites of Necrocorporeality in Nordic Noir Television SeriesPart Four: Visual worlds of the Russian Arctic11. Arja Rosenholm: The Masculine North in Popular Russian Film: Territoriia as a Case Study12. Jane Costlow: Women Look North: Domesticities and the Sublime in Three Contemporary Russian Artists 13. Vlad Strukov: The Arctic on Display: Museums, Art and Haptic Visuality of the NorthPart Five: Visual documentation and ethnography14. Ivan Golovnev and Elena Golovneva: Traditional Ethno-Cultural Communities in the Modern Russian North: Oil Field as a Documentary Film Case15. Dmitry Zamyatin: Geocultural Space of the Arctic: Landscape Visualization and Ontological Models of Imagination16. Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur: Envisioning Digital Methods for Fieldwork in the Arctic