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Social Science Human Geography

After Ice

Cold Humanities for a Warming Planet

foreword by Emma Kowal & Joanna Radin

edited by Rafico Ruiz, Paula Schönach & Rob Shields

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2024
Category
Human Geography, Global Warming & Climate Change, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Polar Regions
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774869362
    Publish Date
    Nov 2024
    List Price
    $99.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774869393
    Publish Date
    Nov 2024
    List Price
    $39.99

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As the climate warms and the hydrological cycle falters, ice is no longer a reliable feature of higher latitudes or winter seasons. What are the consequences of the planet’s waning capacity to cool? In other words, what comes after ice?

 

This collection examines the implications of the end of consistent freezing and thawing cycles. After Ice gathers experts in a wide range of disciplines to articulate aspects of the cold humanities. They investigate ice and its dynamic properties as a foundational element of Indigenous communities in the Arctic regions, as a commodity with technological and political value, and as a reflection of environmental change and the passage of time.

 

As the future of the cryosphere is increasingly determined by human behaviour, this thought-provoking exploration envisions ice as both a phase of water and as a milieu for sensemaking. It asks us to consider how to define, describe, and materially characterize our warming world.

About the authors

Emma Kowal's profile page

Joanna Radin's profile page

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Paula Schönach's profile page

Rob Shields is the H.M. Tory Chair in the Departments of Sociology and Art and Design at the University of Alberta. He is co-editor of the journal Space and Culture, and his most recent works include What Is a City? Rethinking the Urban after Katrina (ed., 2008) and Building Tomorrow: Innovation in Construction (ed., 2005).

Rob Shields' profile page