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Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 216x140x10 mm, kaal: 312 g, 31 black and white illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-Apr-2023
  • Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press
  • ISBN-10: 1517911826
  • ISBN-13: 9781517911829
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 216x140x10 mm, kaal: 312 g, 31 black and white illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-Apr-2023
  • Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press
  • ISBN-10: 1517911826
  • ISBN-13: 9781517911829
"Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood presents a meditative engagement with permafrost as more than just frozen ground. Wrigley considers how permafrost and its disappearance redefines extinction to be a lack of continuity, both material and social, and something that affects not only life on earth but nonlife, too"--

Exploring one of the greatest potential contributors to climate change—thawing permafrost—and the anxiety of extinction on an increasingly hostile planet

 

Climate scientists point to permafrost as a “ticking time bomb” for the planet, and from the Arctic, apocalyptic narratives proliferate on the devastating effects permafrost thaw poses to human survival. In Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood, Charlotte Wrigley considers how permafrost—and its disappearance—redefines extinction to be a lack of continuity, both material and social, and something that affects not only life on earth but nonlife, too.

Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood approaches the topic of thawing permafrost and the wild new economies and mitigation strategies forming in the far north through a study of the Sakha Republic, Russia’s largest region, and its capital city Yakutsk, which is the coldest city in the world and built on permafrost. Wrigley examines people who are creating commerce out of thawing permafrost, including scientists wishing to recreate the prehistoric “Mammoth steppe” ecosystem by eventually rewilding resurrected woolly mammoths, Indigenous people who forage the tundra for exposed mammoth bodies to sell their tusks, and government officials hoping to keep their city standing as the ground collapses under it. Warming begets thawing begets economic activity— and as a result, permafrost becomes discontinuous, both as land and as a social category, in ways that have implications for the entire planet. Discontinuity, Wrigley shows, eventually evolves into extinction.

Offering a new way of defining extinction through the concept of “discontinuity,” Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood presents a meditative and story-focused engagement with permafrost as more than just frozen ground.

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"A myth-busting, pioneering ride through climactic upheaval in the Russian Arctic, where extinction is not an end but a becoming. Charlotte Wrigleys tales of life and matter, death and survival co-mingle, surprise, disrupt, and provoke. Masterful riffs about time across scales reimagine worlds beyond the hubris of scientific technofixes and other false promises of redemption."-Jennifer E. Telesca, author of Red Gold: The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna

"Charlotte Wrigley challenges what we know-or think we know-about permafrost, the finality of extinction, and the role humans play in the Anthropocene. An engaging and thought-provoking read."-Jonathan C. Slaght, author of Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the Worlds Largest Owl

"Grounded in the permafrost landscapes of northern Siberia, Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood traverses issues fundamental to our time: the meanings of extinction, the experiences of earth-shaking change, the seductions of engineering both genetic and geological. Told through the many lives-and possible death-of permafrost, Charlotte Wrigleys theoretically rich narrative pushes us to imagine better worlds."-Bathsheba Demuth, author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait  

"Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood rewards its readers with its sensory experience and its philosophical meditations, arming them with new questions with which to challenge their own slow-churning surroundings."-Science Magazine

 

"Wrigleys sustained and disparate application of the notion of discontinuity to a wide array of environmental questions makes for a sophisticated, thought-provoking, and often brilliant exploration that enriches scholars understandings of how non-living entities can intrude into human endeavors in unexpected ways."-Andy Bruno, The Russian Review



"Charlotte Wrigley insightfully dissects and interrogates the concept of extinction, as well as its inverse, de-extinction, through the lens of permafrost and the Russian arctic." -H-Net Reviews

 

 

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Preface vii
Introduction: Permafrost Life 1(34)
1 Earth
35(34)
A Global Permafrost Apocalypse
40(4)
Permafrost Science at the Pleistocene Park
44(4)
The Pleistocene Park as Planetary Redemption
48(4)
Chersky and the Mainland
52(4)
Permafrost Ruptures and Island Apocalypses
56(4)
Reimagining the Planetary
60(4)
The Lives All Around
64(5)
2 Ice
69(36)
Sakhan Refrigerators
74(4)
The Antipermafrost and Extinction in the Permafrost Tunnel
78(4)
The Permafrost Law and Inhuman Subjectivity
82(5)
Does Permafrost Breathe?
87(6)
Permafrost as Commodity and the Hunt for White Gold
93(4)
Unearthing Multiplicity through Stories
97(4)
The Lives Underfoot
101(4)
3 Bone
105(36)
Permafrost Underground and the Verticality of Time
111(3)
Deep Pasts: Jhe Super-terrestrial with(out) Humans
114(4)
Shallow Histories: The Soviet Union and the Genesis of the Pleistocene Park
118(3)
(Re)emergent Landscapes and the Intricacies of Reproduction
121(6)
Animal Agencies and Skeletal Afterlives
127(4)
The Subterranean as a Future Repository
131(3)
The Lives Coming Back
134(7)
4 Blood
141(34)
Mammoth Histories
146(4)
(Un)broken Lineages and Blood Ties
150(4)
Entering the Cryobank
154(5)
The Cryopolitics of Future Life
159(3)
Immortality and Resurrection in the Secular Age
162(4)
Giving Up on Life
166(3)
The Lives of the Future
169(6)
Conclusion 175(14)
Acknowledgments 189(4)
Notes 193(18)
Bibliography 211(22)
Index 233
Charlotte Wrigley recently finished her PhD in Human Geography at Queen Mary University, London, and is postdoctoral fellow at the University of Stavanger.