This book charts emergent geographical imaginaries of the Arctic in twenty-first century cultural production – from literature and cinema to comics, hip hop, and cartography. It is a timely intervention into circumpolar studies at a time when Indigenous Arctic homelands have entered global media and politics to an unprecedented extent.
The mediated Arctic analyses the multiple relations between geography and cultural production that have long shaped – and are currently transforming – the circumpolar world. It explores how twenty-first-century cultural practitioners imagine and poeticise various elements of Arctic geography, and in doing so negotiate pressing environmental, (geo)political, and social concerns. From the plasmatic force of ice in Disney’s Frozen films to the spatial vocabulary of circumpolar Indigenous hip hop, it addresses Arctic geographical imaginaries in a wide range of media, including literature, cinema, comic books, music videos, and cartographic art. The book brings together a plurality of voices from within and outside the circumpolar North, both in terms of the works analysed and in its own collaborative scholarly practice. The book bridges Indigenous and Southern mediations of the Arctic and combines different epistemologies to do justice to these imaginaries in their diversity.
Introduction: Mediated Arctic geographies (at the centre of the map)
Liisa-Rávná Finbog and Johannes Riquet, with the collective authors of this
book
Part I: Mediating sensory geographies
1 Mediating Arctic soundscapes Charlotte Coutu, Greta Ferloni, Johannes
Riquet, and Philip Steinberg
2 Sensory geographies of Arctic crime fiction Malan Marnersdóttir, Maarit
Piipponen, Jette Rygaard, and Markku Salmela
3 Ambiguous geographies between water and land: mediating Arctic wetlands in
scientific discourse, film, and television Charlotte Coutu, Liisa-Rávná
Finbog, Adelaide McGinity-Peebles, Johannes Riquet, and Timo Vesala
Part II: Mediating environmental geographies
4 Geographies of the future: entangled temporalities in Arctic climate change
fiction Anna-Tina Jedele, Juha Ridanpää, and Johannes Riquet
5 Animated fantasies of ice in the Anthropocene - Heidi Hansson, Johannes
Riquet, Markku Salmela, and Anna Westerstahl Stenport
6 Salmon geographies: reimagining the Arctic in contemporary literature and
visual art Anna-Tina Jedele, Eeva Kuikka, and Jenni Niska
Part III: Mediating decolonising geographies
7 Decolonial cartographies: counter-mapping in the Arctic Daniel Chartier,
Hanna Guttorm, Britt Kramvig, Berit Kristoffersen, Johannes Riquet, and
Philip Steinberg
8 Arctic comic books: mapping circumpolar geographies panel by panel Aviaq
Fleischer, Scott MacKenzie, Johannes Riquet, and Anna Westerstahl Stenport
Part IV: Mediating global geographies
9 Arctic hip hop nation: rapping circumpolar geographies Aviaq Fleischer,
Juha Ridanpää, Johannes Riquet, and Ana Sobral
10 The seal in Arctic documentary and global media since the 1950s:
perspectives on Indigenous sovereignty, gendered geopolitics, and the
European Unions seal regime Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport
11 Migrants, refugees, and Indigenous homelands: mediating displacement in
cinematic geographies of the circumpolar world Johannes Riquet and Anna
Westerstahl Stenport -- .
Johannes Riquet is Professor of English Literature at Tampere University -- .
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