Arctic Archives

This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the anthropocene. Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means to investigate it not only as a place of human history and memory - of Arctic exploring, >conquering< and="" colonizing="" -,="" but="" to="" take="" into="" account="" also="" the="" specific="" environmental="" conditions="" of="" the="" circumpolar="" region:="" ice="" and="" permafrost.="" these="" have="" allowed="" a="" huge="" natural="" archive="" to="" emerge,="" offering="" rich="" sources="" for="" natural="" scientists="" and="" historians="" alike.="" examining="" the="" debate="" on="" the="" notion="" of="" (="">natural<) archive,="" the="" cultural="" semantics="" and="" historicity="" of="" the="" meaning="" of="" concepts="" like="">warm<,>cold<,>freezing< and="">melting< as="" well="" as="" various="" works="" of="" literature,="" art="" and="" science="" on="" arctic="" topics,="" this="" volume="" brings="" together="" literary="" scholars,="" historians="" of="" knowledge="" and="" philosophy,="" art="" historians,="" media="" theorists="" and="">