Arctic Abstractive Industry

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 Figures



Preface: From Northern Lights to Fluorescent lights

Arthur Mason



Introduction: Arctic Late Industrialism: Extracting Value through Abstraction

Arthur Mason

This chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social Sciences



Chapter 1. To Melt Away: Abstractive Sensations in Ice

Cymene HoweThis chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social Sciences



Chapter 2. The Biggest, the Best, the Most, the Last: Creating Valuable and Vulnerable Resources in Coastal Alaska

Danielle DiNovelli-Lang and Karen Hébert



Chapter 3. Timescaping the Arctic with Real-Time Data: Challenges for Fishing and Oil Interests

Vidar Hepsø and Elena Parmiggiani



Chapter 4. Wild Lands, Remote Edges: Formations and Abstractions in Greenland’s Resource Zones

Mark Nuttall



Chapter 5. Forging Off-World Frontiers: Chinese Steel and Arctic Iron

Mia M. Bennett



Chapter 6. Constructing and Contesting Temporalities in the Mackenzie Gas Project

Carly Dokis



Chapter 7. Material Unconscious of the Earth: Extractive Ontology and the Invisible War in Siberia

Oxana Timofeeva



Chapter 8. Representation Without Resemblance: Graphical Expression in Hydrocarbon Industry

Arthur Mason



Afterword: Arctic Abstractions

Michael J. Watts

This chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social Sciences



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